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The Resume

    (October 4, 1983- )
    Born in Clearwater, Florida
    Private restaurant chain headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (Hooters of America, Inc.) and founded in Clearwater Florida (Hooters, Inc.)
    Products include burgers, seafood, full booze bar, memorabilia, and chicken wings (their specialty product)
    Company mascot: Hootie the Owl
    Motto: ‘Delightfully tacky yet unrefined’
    Oath of the Hooters Girl:
    1) My job duties require I wear the designated Hooters Girl uniform;
    2) My job duties require that I interact with and entertain the customers;
    3) The Hooters concept is based on female sex appeal and the work environment is one in which joking and entertaining conversations are commonplace;
    4) I do not find my job duties, uniform requirements, or work environment to be offensive, intimidating, hostile, or unwelcome

Why Hooters might be annoying:

    Since its original owners thought it would be a failure, its actual opening date was an April Fool’s Day joke.
    At their original store, they built a mock-up of a graveyard to honor the fallen businesses that replaced the rundown nightclub they purchased.
    Though they use an owl as the company logo (indicative of the sound the owl makes), the name is more commonly associated with the, ahem, assets of the servers: Hooter Girls.
    They had their own… airline, headquartered in Myrtle Beach, Florida – mainly catering to golfers – for barely three years.
    A Michigan restaurant was sued for discrimination on account of height and weight (2010, the only state to impose size requirements in its hiring practices).

Why Hooters might not be annoying:

    In a twist on employment discrimination based on gender, men who were denied employment – regardless of capacity – have successfully sued the company (one of whom was a waiter in Texas).
    Depending on the theme – sometimes a local football or basketball match-up – the servers will not always wear their iconic white tank top and orange shorts.
    At least they don’t have to wear painful chunky heels.
    A copy of the pre-2006 Hooters Handbook published on the Smoking Gun reads: ‘Customers can go to many places for wings and beer, but it is our Hooters Girls who make our concept unique. Hooters offers its customers the look of the All American Cheerleader, Surfer, Girl Next Door.’
    The Hooters Casino Hotel in Vegas (opened 2006) is home to the second-largest namesake restaurant in the world.
    When waitress Kelly Jo Dowd died, the franchise set up the Kelly Jo Dowd fund for breast cancer research — one of its many charitable causes.
    For its silver anniversary in 2008, Hooters Magazine listed its top Hooter Girls of all time (including Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Leeann Tweeden, Holly Madison, and original waitress Lynne Austin).

Credit: Cool It All Right?


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 15 Votes: 13.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 36 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 44 Votes: 56.82% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 28 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 884 Votes: 49.43% Annoying