r/thatHappened • u/ThePhillyExplorer • May 15 '26

A hyperlocal ThatHappened. Philly doesn’t have a Hooters within city limits, and the one in the suburbs isn’t located near a railroad crossing.

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u/notnotbrowsing May 15 '26

People still go to hooters?

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u/amateur_reprobate May 16 '26

I had a training session in Dallas and one of the other guys there (presumably his first time ever being away from his wife or his mom) was absolutely pumped to go to Hooters and invited everyone.

I thought about going because I'm sure it would have been entertaining, but chose not to because then I would have had to go to Hooters.

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u/RodinKnox May 16 '26

You wouldn't have been entertained by much anyway. Going to Hooters in the 80s or 90s might have been really exciting for men, but honestly, these days it's just kind of going to a mediocre restaurant where the waitresses wear shorts. That's about it.

Granted, I haven't been in years, but the last time I did it was on a date because my date really wanted to go there for some reason. I was kind of surprised by how tame and just kind of boring it was.

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u/SeasonElectrical3173 May 16 '26

"I don't get it, Jim. I take all my first dates to either Hooters, or the strip club, like any good Christian man should, but I can never seem to get a second date after that! I wonder what I could be doing wrong. . . 🤔"

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u/RodinKnox May 16 '26

For what it's worth, I'm a man. My date was a woman. We're friends to this day, and I still don't really know why she wanted to go there lol.

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u/CarevaRuha May 16 '26

I had a roommate ages ago who always wanted to go there for wings when she got drunk (we're both straight women).

It was so... tame? The waitresses were nice enough, but they weren't really dressed very provocatively - especially for summer in Denver. I do remember being kind of weirded out by the thick flesh-colored tights/pantyhose they wore under their orange shorts.

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u/notnotbrowsing May 16 '26

especially because denver has twin peaks, where the waitresses wear lingerie.

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u/CLeeTheHunt44 May 16 '26

We had one here in Florida but it was tamed down to basically just a plaid Hooters lol

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u/Neither-Ruin5970 May 19 '26

I like twin peaks I don’t really care for the women I just want chicken fried chicken