Hooters Backtracks After Employees Go Viral For Complaining About ‘Disturbing’ And ‘Sexist’ New Uniforms
InterviewFor a lot of people, their clothes are an extension of their personality and not just a piece of cloth to keep them warm and cover their decency. It’s great when they can show what kind of person they are with what they are wearing, but there are places where you have to follow a dress code.
At school, you have a uniform, whereas if you have an office job, they might ask you to look more formal. Doctors have their white coats and you’ll always spot policemen in their uniforms. A lot of companies in the service industry also require their employees to wear uniforms. Usually it’s because of safety and practical reasons as well as for representative purposes. But companies like Hooters seem to care only about how to earn more using women’s bodies.
The restaurant chain Hooters recently updated their employees’ uniforms and they were not happy about them, so the company made them optional
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Hooters is a restaurant chain that originated in the United States and was first opened in 1983. Since then, it has become really popular and now the chain consists of 420 Hooters restaurants in 42 states and 29 countries.
The main selling feature and why the restaurant is so well known is because of the Hooters Girls. That is what they call their waitresses who serve clients wearing a white tank top with the “Hootie the Owl” logo and a pair of revealing shorts.
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Quite a lot of Hooters Girls were showing the shorts of the new uniform on TikTok and those videos were going viral
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Recently, Hooters updated their staff’s uniforms and made the shorts even shorter, which no one thought could be possible. Girls who are working at Hooters called out the restaurant’s decision on TikTok and they got so much attention that the chain had to adjust the uniform policy and announced that the new shorts will be optional.
Bored Panda reached out to one of the TikTokers who goes by the name LexiusXOXO to learn more how the situation looks like from an insider’s perspective. The TikTokers real name is Lexi and she just graduated from Valdosta State with a Bachelors of Arts in psychology and sociology. She told us that she’s “been wanting to be a hooters girl since she was in high school, to pay off her student loans quickly, and fund her business.” Lexi also added that she was inspired by her cousin who got to “compete in pageants and just have a lot of opportunities open up because of hooters and Lexi wanted to do the same.”
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As the Hooters uniform was always a ontroversial part about the restaurant, we asked Lexi if she ever felt uncomfortable wearing it and turns out, that she only get nervous when families with children come in but overall she feels good in it: “I was self conscious at first since I have a smaller chest and don’t look like the average hooters girl but what I lack in the front I make up for in the back.”
Most of the girls were not happy about the changes and weren’t fans of the idea of wearing what they called ‘underwear’ to work
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In an Image Policy Statement, the company declared, “As we continue to listen and update the image of the Hooters Girls, we are clarifying that they have the option to choose from traditional uniforms or the new ones. They can determine which style of shorts best fits their body style and personal image.”
They also claim that the uniform changes were made in collaboration with their employees and received positive feedback in restaurants that are located in Texas. They also added, “Our Hooters Girls are providing input at every stage including future clothing items and accessories.”
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Luckily, the company heard their employees and made a statement saying that the women will be able to choose to wear the uniform that makes them more comfortable
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While some girls truly like their new uniform and admit that they are earning significantly more now, not all of them feel so happy. Many of them are comparing the new shorts to underwear as they don’t entirely cover their bottoms and they don’t think it is appropriate attire for working at a restaurant.
Hooters Girls are showing their new shorts on camera with fright and disgust on their faces. One of them wrote in her video caption, “Love my job but don’t love wearing undies to work.” Another said, “Soooo hooters got new panties. I mean shorts.”
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Lexi told us more how the staff found out about the change and what their reactions were: “I felt like hooters girls actually had a voice in what they wanted to wear. A lot of people believe that the girls already knew what the shorts looked like but actually they didn’t. We were just informed that we were getting new shorts that’s all. We were all surprised when the package came in and we saw the shorts. I also feel like if it wasn’t for all the TikTok’s then the policy wouldn’t have changed but hey shout out to hooters for listening to how their hooters girls felt and for making the change.”
If you would like to hear more about work at Hooters and how the girls see heir jobs, you can follow Lexie on TikTok where she has 30k followers on Instagram where over 5k people follow her or you can check out her Youtube channel.
Hooters were always criticized for having their employees wear overly revealing outfits, but this time, it seems they crossed the line
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Hooters were always criticized for their staff uniforms and this is not the first controversy they’ve been in regarding their Hooters Girls’ image.
For example, in 2010, an employee filed a lawsuit against the company claiming that they gave her a gym membership to lose weight as her shirt and short size could have used some improvement. If after a month, nothing would change, she was threatened with termination. Hooters denied the accusations and the case was settled out of court.
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It seems that the company really took into consideration what their employees were saying. After all, they clearly defined what their values are in the statement, mentioned previously: “We remain committed to empowering our most valuable asset, the Hooters Girls, and working together to provide the best Hooters experience for our guests and employees.”
But what do you think of the new Hooters uniforms? Would it make you quit if you were forced to wear them? How do you feel about the company making the new shorts optional after the backlash? Leave your reactions in the comments!
People online were mostly sympathizing with women who thought that Hooters can’t force them to work in underwear
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Share on FacebookI'm mildly surprised that Hooters can still operate as a "family restaurant" in 2021. Also, any guy who tells you that they go to Hooters for the Wings is either lying to you, or they genuinely enjoy eating garbage.
I am gay and was there for the wings. They were horrible, but I have never experienced such friendly service. Their work clothes may not appeal to everyone, but they do a damn good job!
Load More Replies...Why not just put a pole up and they can fling the wings and poppers at you? Come on, I've waited tables, and I never would have done it in my underwear. I'm glad they changed up and decided to let the girls choose what style they want to wear.
If this were any other company, people would fully support the workers not wanting to suddenly be slapped with new, more revealing uniforms, but since it's Hooters, I guess it's cool to treat the workers with complete disrespect. Just because your job involves selling sexuality does NOT mean your employer can do whatever the hell they want with your body. These women signed up to wear a specific uniform. Forcing them to wear a new one that shows more skin is not okay. It doesn't matter how revealing the previous uniform was, you don't spring that on your employees, period.
Load More Replies..."Brand ambassador" is slang for "whore our merch and your body". Sorry for the language, that's the only word I can find for it.
@Kevin, "whore" is a verb, meaning "debase oneself by doing something for unworthy motives, typically to make money". Also, I'm rather alarmed by your comments. Have you sought professional help? You seem to have... anger issues.
Load More Replies...I went to Hooters once.I didn't know what it was. Maybe I should say I knew of it, but being famished and on a trip, Hooters looked more promising than the Wendy's and McD at the same stop. I am as far from a prude as one can get, without weird fetishes and BDSM. Yet I felt embarrassed for the servers. The uniforms at the time (the classic t-shirt/orange shorts) weren't terrible. Coming from Europe I grew up with semi and nude beaches, but the whole experience seemed fake and forced. I left with a sense of sadness I couldn't explain. I am Italian and I can appreciate a pretty girl, but those poor waitresses didn't look happy. They certainly tried, but it was the kind of corporate, institutionalized, forced "happy". For that matter, the few times I went to TGI Friday I felt similarly. Waitstaff forced to wear silly buttons on their aprons and make up stories about them as if every single one of them was proud of their corporate imposed good cheer. I hate chain restaurants.
Ok , one misleading false things many outlets like here are stating. The company didnt make it option after backlash. They listed it as optional but preferred when they released it, but did say managers could give better shifts to those who wore the new uniforms. The only thing they retracted was the better shift option.
So basically, if you don’t wear the new thong shorts, you get the shitty shifts until you’re so broke you give in. Sounds like coercion to me.
Load More Replies...I'm amazed that they actually operate in this day and age, it's almost like ... people didn't notice the whole feminism movement. Also quite fascinating, google map of hooters branches usa. Significant overlap with the states formerly known as the confederacy.
I think it was a Florida based chain to start with, so that's probably why. Now, I actually like the food, but would be totally on board with them just making it a regular restaurant/sports bar with all genders of servers wearing typical restaurant attire.
Load More Replies...Look, i'm a f*cking dumbass, but i don't think Hooters of all things is a part of high equal society? Just leave the entire thing in the dust.
Why couldn't it be part of an equal society? Are you saying that in an equal society sexuality would be considered evil? That isn't a positive move.
Load More Replies...They need to offer full medical benefits to waitresses for the UTIs the new uniform will give them
My question for the new uniforms is what will they have to use on the period if they can only use pads? I know several friends with medical disabilities that prevent them from using any other item on their period other than pads. Will they have to take off work or something?
Load More Replies...I'm sorry...Hooter's just crossed that line from "Restaurant with sexy waitresses" to "Titty bar that serves chicken wings." These girls signed up to work in a restaurant, not a strip club. So when will Hooter's start collecting cover charges at the door?
The new "shorts" look more like a thong - I don't really want my waitress parading around with her a** hanging out - if that's what I wanted, I'd just go to a strip club. Which I suppose is what Hooters is trying to be.
There are reasons that millenials and gen z and whatever comes after are steering away from places like hooters.
Why? Sexuality shouldn't be seen as a bad thing?
Load More Replies...LOL only a certain type of person goes to these establishments, and guess what? They're usually not decent to begin with.
You hate sexuality? Are you asexual? Or just prudish?
Load More Replies...Even those old shorts aren't exactly nonsexist. That entire "uniform" is sexualised. Who the hell has to wear tights and shorts as a waitress anywhere else?!
Is anyone really surprised by this? It's a restaurant that might as well be called "Tits" Maybe they're changing their name to "Tits and Ass"?
This is so paradoxical coming from a country that demand girls cover up in their schools or face disciplinary action and now we have this.
I'm sorry, are you seriously complaining about a revealing uniform at hooters? The restaurant that is essentially a strip club? The one that is named after the female body part it's patron gawk at? Lol, ok.
Here's what I want from anyone of any gender/sexuality serving me my food...... a)the food I ordered, and b)very little chance of any of that server's body contaminating my food... in fact, i'd be quite happy if they were wearing full on hazmat suits. But let's be real......... this is HOOTERS....... it's not a high end establishment known for for it's beef wellington and fancy deserts. It's a place known for basically selling hot servers with drinks on the side. You do know what you're applying for when you go for the job. tbh I don't see places such as these as exploiting women as much as they're exploiting the kind of guys that are on the level where they think they're going to get to date a hooters woman just because they've bought an expensive round... what places like hooters really need to do though is sell the message to those guys, 'you're buying a drink, not the server' like so many seem to expect sadly. they need to invest properly in server safety
Those are not shorts. I have bathing suits that cover more than that. And how is a place like Hooters still a thing?
I work in a butchery and they make me touch meat!!!!! STFU and get another job, it's frigging Hooters, are you kidding me? I
Oh no! You poor thing. Do you have to touch MEAT at a BUTCHERY?! How horrible! I could have never guessed! Let me guess, You also handle sharp objects? Oh, the humanity! It's not like Hooter changed the already horrible outfit to something even more sexualizing! No, you're right. You having to touch meat in butchery is so obviously worse. I mean, if you could get another job and you don't like touching meat then why are you still a butcher? Is it hard to get a new job to support you and your rent? That's what the girls are going through there. So shut up. No one wants to see this crap.
Load More Replies...To be fair, I'm surprised they're still going... The only reason men go to Hooters is to perv on young waitresses so I think the concept should have had its day.
What's wrong with liking to see attractive workers? Sexuality shouldn't be demonized.
Load More Replies...What is the next step according to patriarchy - women to be naked and have sex with men on demand? When is this insanity going to end. Women are not toys!
Treating sexuality as evil is a step backwards. If a restaurant wants to use sexuality in its marketing, let them. We don't want to go back to the 1950s where sexuality was treated as "of the devil".
Load More Replies...Is it even sanitary to have people handling food while practically wearing thong underpants all day?
Have the ceo an marketing team makes wear those new hot pants. Let them see how bad it is. Then have them wear the ones that are currently the uniform. And then ask what would a male waiter have to wear if hired?
Yeah, and get all the strip club owners to dance for the patrons... You couldn't miss the point further by aiming in the opposite direction...
Load More Replies...It's hooters, wtf do the girls working there expect? I'm not saying I agree with it, I 100% don't, but I don't even live in America and I know what hooters is all about!!
I have a solution. Get an actual career. Or not be birthed by poverty whom can assist
I have never been there! Why? I don't believe in objectifying women.This does that.So if they say "]Equal opportunity Employer" Can I, a 80 year old male with nice legs get a job there?
I'm sorry you're working at Hooters.... Where everyone goes to look at the girls slutty outfits but all of a sudden these chicks are upset that the shorts are "too" short. Give me a break. Look where you're working!
I worked as a waitress while in college. It was a very nice upscale restaurant in a large city. We wore black trousers and white shirts and I cannot count the times that I was hit on my businessmen at lunch!! For some reason, some men believe that waiting tables is a prelim to a table dance. Ugh. I feel bad for the girls at Hooters. This may be the only job some of them can get (that's for all the people who say just go get another job). Hooters just exacerbates the belief that it's OK to hit on the serving staff.
Why are they called "HOOTERS?" In England HOOTERS are BOOBS! Those uniforms are quite ghastly, so, that is a double insult for the staff!
ok but the "Dont Touch The Wildlife" sign in the background of one of the images....
One comment up there about guys or trans being hired at Hooters. I'd love to see a straight/gay/bi/trans friendly Hooters or Twin Peaks...especially in redneck conservative country. All those cute cowboys would be lost. I fear the downside to a situation like this would be similar that of the relationship between Barry Winchell and Calpernia Addams though. Can't have the straight defensive front threatened in any way, can we?
The funny thing about this is that I honestly am shocked they aren’t going in the other direction. If you would have asked me before, I would have said FOR SURE that Hooters would drop the Hot Girl premise and just become a normal restaurant but keep the funny name. I’m way more shocked that they went this direction than I am that they exploited their employees a little more. They’re 100% going in the wrong direction.
There are plenty of restaurants without any sexuality involved in them. Why not have one chain that does? Obviously there are people who want it and that's fine.
Load More Replies...Applies for job at Hooters - a place premised on hot girls in skimpy outfits - then complains about skimpy outfits. Hooters is one step up from lap dancing and Onlyfans; it's no surprise that they treat the girls like lumps of meat.
I am going to work for a restaurant called Hooters but i am against sexism
Okay? People need to realize that sexism and sexuality are very different things.
Load More Replies...I'm not really sure how I feel about this. I mean, Hooters has never hidden the fact that they are about objectifying women so can we really be mad when they do just that?
Yes, yes we can. They could wake up and stop doing that, instead they up the objectification.
Load More Replies...I'm simply baffled there are any women at all who will voluntarily work at Hooters...
Sometimes you just really need the money and it's all you can get. Just don't judge the waiters, judge the management.
Load More Replies...I've read this a few times and still can't understand why women who are hired solely based on their looks, in a restaurant where it's main selling points are hooters (and booties) complain about having to wear revealing clothes. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF HOOTERS! THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE HIRED FOR!
Because the world is generally pretty decent so the wannabe activists have to jump on whatever they can and hype it up. The other option would be to go to a country with ACTUAL serious misogyny problems, but they can't do that from the comfort of their computer chair so...
Load More Replies...Yeah, all the men who work at hooters have to wear it too...idiot
Load More Replies...WHY work for a place that is SPECIFICALLY known for scantily clad waitstaff and then bitch about the skimpy uniforms? SHUT UP and go get a wait job at Applebees or some s**t.!
maybe because you need to feed a family and the tips at other 'restaurants' are lower? dunno, just guessing.
Load More Replies...The place is expensive to eat. But first of all it's called Hooters for a reason and that's suggestive that you will see tits hanging out. So with that in mind, what's so different about the shorts? A lot of girls these days are wearing less of a bikini bottom with most of their ass hanging out like sluts. If the girls don't like the shorts they can leave for a different job. Just because they work there and don't like the change doesn't mean they have a right to keep it as before. It's a private business.
Count me as someone who supports a business's right to require vaccine mandates and someone who supports Hooter's ability to set its own dress code.
Good gosh, its HOOTERS. These ladies know what the job is, and for them to complain is simply dumb. Reminds me of the lady at Hooters at Mall of America who objected to wearing the uniform. She quit, took a job as a server elsewhere where she could wear more modest clothes, then sued Hooters for her now lower tips. Yeah, men are pigs and tip more pretty women wearing shorts and t-shirts. Whine all you want, this is life. No one forces anyone to work there, they violate no laws, and the servers get abnormal tips. Don't like it, work elsewhere. You do not have a RIGHT to work somewhere with higher than average tips. Just quit and stop whining on social media if you are "offended". I am sure this will get blasted here on this website, but its the truth. Same as working at Hooters you do not deserve the same tips as working at a strip club. Men will pay what they want, for the environment they want. For the record I go to neither.
If my daughter needed to work one place I could say she definitely would not be working is Hooters and any other place that requires the girls to dress sexy. They may as well be strippers or pole dancers, better pay I am sure.
If your daughter is over 18, she can work at whatever job she wants.
Load More Replies...F*****g drama queens. You work for a restaurant chain who's business model is mainly patrons being served hot chicks by hot chicks. Don't act surprised. And get your vaccine shots so that we can continue to enjoy their crappy food.
Jumping from attractive waitress to literally just a strip club is a big jump
Load More Replies...Girls fight to be free to wear this kind of clothes to go to school but not at work?
Choice. If they choose it, OK. If they’re forced or coerced into it, not OK. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop with this—-corporate suddenly saying they’re no longer ordering the classic orange shorts, or that they’re no longer being made, thereby making the thong shorts the only option. That’s when there’ll be a mass exodus of waitresses and maybe a couple lawsuits, to boot.
Load More Replies...what do any of them expect working at Hooters? Don't like it, don't work there. Simple.
There seems to be this misunderstanding among people, most of those women don’t work at a hooters because they want too, they do it because they have too
Load More Replies...So what? You understand there’s more than a handful of people alive right?
Load More Replies...Super emotional response, Kev. Calm down, Sugartits. You have no power here lol.
Load More Replies...I'm mildly surprised that Hooters can still operate as a "family restaurant" in 2021. Also, any guy who tells you that they go to Hooters for the Wings is either lying to you, or they genuinely enjoy eating garbage.
I am gay and was there for the wings. They were horrible, but I have never experienced such friendly service. Their work clothes may not appeal to everyone, but they do a damn good job!
Load More Replies...Why not just put a pole up and they can fling the wings and poppers at you? Come on, I've waited tables, and I never would have done it in my underwear. I'm glad they changed up and decided to let the girls choose what style they want to wear.
If this were any other company, people would fully support the workers not wanting to suddenly be slapped with new, more revealing uniforms, but since it's Hooters, I guess it's cool to treat the workers with complete disrespect. Just because your job involves selling sexuality does NOT mean your employer can do whatever the hell they want with your body. These women signed up to wear a specific uniform. Forcing them to wear a new one that shows more skin is not okay. It doesn't matter how revealing the previous uniform was, you don't spring that on your employees, period.
Load More Replies..."Brand ambassador" is slang for "whore our merch and your body". Sorry for the language, that's the only word I can find for it.
@Kevin, "whore" is a verb, meaning "debase oneself by doing something for unworthy motives, typically to make money". Also, I'm rather alarmed by your comments. Have you sought professional help? You seem to have... anger issues.
Load More Replies...I went to Hooters once.I didn't know what it was. Maybe I should say I knew of it, but being famished and on a trip, Hooters looked more promising than the Wendy's and McD at the same stop. I am as far from a prude as one can get, without weird fetishes and BDSM. Yet I felt embarrassed for the servers. The uniforms at the time (the classic t-shirt/orange shorts) weren't terrible. Coming from Europe I grew up with semi and nude beaches, but the whole experience seemed fake and forced. I left with a sense of sadness I couldn't explain. I am Italian and I can appreciate a pretty girl, but those poor waitresses didn't look happy. They certainly tried, but it was the kind of corporate, institutionalized, forced "happy". For that matter, the few times I went to TGI Friday I felt similarly. Waitstaff forced to wear silly buttons on their aprons and make up stories about them as if every single one of them was proud of their corporate imposed good cheer. I hate chain restaurants.
Ok , one misleading false things many outlets like here are stating. The company didnt make it option after backlash. They listed it as optional but preferred when they released it, but did say managers could give better shifts to those who wore the new uniforms. The only thing they retracted was the better shift option.
So basically, if you don’t wear the new thong shorts, you get the shitty shifts until you’re so broke you give in. Sounds like coercion to me.
Load More Replies...I'm amazed that they actually operate in this day and age, it's almost like ... people didn't notice the whole feminism movement. Also quite fascinating, google map of hooters branches usa. Significant overlap with the states formerly known as the confederacy.
I think it was a Florida based chain to start with, so that's probably why. Now, I actually like the food, but would be totally on board with them just making it a regular restaurant/sports bar with all genders of servers wearing typical restaurant attire.
Load More Replies...Look, i'm a f*cking dumbass, but i don't think Hooters of all things is a part of high equal society? Just leave the entire thing in the dust.
Why couldn't it be part of an equal society? Are you saying that in an equal society sexuality would be considered evil? That isn't a positive move.
Load More Replies...They need to offer full medical benefits to waitresses for the UTIs the new uniform will give them
My question for the new uniforms is what will they have to use on the period if they can only use pads? I know several friends with medical disabilities that prevent them from using any other item on their period other than pads. Will they have to take off work or something?
Load More Replies...I'm sorry...Hooter's just crossed that line from "Restaurant with sexy waitresses" to "Titty bar that serves chicken wings." These girls signed up to work in a restaurant, not a strip club. So when will Hooter's start collecting cover charges at the door?
The new "shorts" look more like a thong - I don't really want my waitress parading around with her a** hanging out - if that's what I wanted, I'd just go to a strip club. Which I suppose is what Hooters is trying to be.
There are reasons that millenials and gen z and whatever comes after are steering away from places like hooters.
Why? Sexuality shouldn't be seen as a bad thing?
Load More Replies...LOL only a certain type of person goes to these establishments, and guess what? They're usually not decent to begin with.
You hate sexuality? Are you asexual? Or just prudish?
Load More Replies...Even those old shorts aren't exactly nonsexist. That entire "uniform" is sexualised. Who the hell has to wear tights and shorts as a waitress anywhere else?!
Is anyone really surprised by this? It's a restaurant that might as well be called "Tits" Maybe they're changing their name to "Tits and Ass"?
This is so paradoxical coming from a country that demand girls cover up in their schools or face disciplinary action and now we have this.
I'm sorry, are you seriously complaining about a revealing uniform at hooters? The restaurant that is essentially a strip club? The one that is named after the female body part it's patron gawk at? Lol, ok.
Here's what I want from anyone of any gender/sexuality serving me my food...... a)the food I ordered, and b)very little chance of any of that server's body contaminating my food... in fact, i'd be quite happy if they were wearing full on hazmat suits. But let's be real......... this is HOOTERS....... it's not a high end establishment known for for it's beef wellington and fancy deserts. It's a place known for basically selling hot servers with drinks on the side. You do know what you're applying for when you go for the job. tbh I don't see places such as these as exploiting women as much as they're exploiting the kind of guys that are on the level where they think they're going to get to date a hooters woman just because they've bought an expensive round... what places like hooters really need to do though is sell the message to those guys, 'you're buying a drink, not the server' like so many seem to expect sadly. they need to invest properly in server safety
Those are not shorts. I have bathing suits that cover more than that. And how is a place like Hooters still a thing?
I work in a butchery and they make me touch meat!!!!! STFU and get another job, it's frigging Hooters, are you kidding me? I
Oh no! You poor thing. Do you have to touch MEAT at a BUTCHERY?! How horrible! I could have never guessed! Let me guess, You also handle sharp objects? Oh, the humanity! It's not like Hooter changed the already horrible outfit to something even more sexualizing! No, you're right. You having to touch meat in butchery is so obviously worse. I mean, if you could get another job and you don't like touching meat then why are you still a butcher? Is it hard to get a new job to support you and your rent? That's what the girls are going through there. So shut up. No one wants to see this crap.
Load More Replies...To be fair, I'm surprised they're still going... The only reason men go to Hooters is to perv on young waitresses so I think the concept should have had its day.
What's wrong with liking to see attractive workers? Sexuality shouldn't be demonized.
Load More Replies...What is the next step according to patriarchy - women to be naked and have sex with men on demand? When is this insanity going to end. Women are not toys!
Treating sexuality as evil is a step backwards. If a restaurant wants to use sexuality in its marketing, let them. We don't want to go back to the 1950s where sexuality was treated as "of the devil".
Load More Replies...Is it even sanitary to have people handling food while practically wearing thong underpants all day?
Have the ceo an marketing team makes wear those new hot pants. Let them see how bad it is. Then have them wear the ones that are currently the uniform. And then ask what would a male waiter have to wear if hired?
Yeah, and get all the strip club owners to dance for the patrons... You couldn't miss the point further by aiming in the opposite direction...
Load More Replies...It's hooters, wtf do the girls working there expect? I'm not saying I agree with it, I 100% don't, but I don't even live in America and I know what hooters is all about!!
I have a solution. Get an actual career. Or not be birthed by poverty whom can assist
I have never been there! Why? I don't believe in objectifying women.This does that.So if they say "]Equal opportunity Employer" Can I, a 80 year old male with nice legs get a job there?
I'm sorry you're working at Hooters.... Where everyone goes to look at the girls slutty outfits but all of a sudden these chicks are upset that the shorts are "too" short. Give me a break. Look where you're working!
I worked as a waitress while in college. It was a very nice upscale restaurant in a large city. We wore black trousers and white shirts and I cannot count the times that I was hit on my businessmen at lunch!! For some reason, some men believe that waiting tables is a prelim to a table dance. Ugh. I feel bad for the girls at Hooters. This may be the only job some of them can get (that's for all the people who say just go get another job). Hooters just exacerbates the belief that it's OK to hit on the serving staff.
Why are they called "HOOTERS?" In England HOOTERS are BOOBS! Those uniforms are quite ghastly, so, that is a double insult for the staff!
ok but the "Dont Touch The Wildlife" sign in the background of one of the images....
One comment up there about guys or trans being hired at Hooters. I'd love to see a straight/gay/bi/trans friendly Hooters or Twin Peaks...especially in redneck conservative country. All those cute cowboys would be lost. I fear the downside to a situation like this would be similar that of the relationship between Barry Winchell and Calpernia Addams though. Can't have the straight defensive front threatened in any way, can we?
The funny thing about this is that I honestly am shocked they aren’t going in the other direction. If you would have asked me before, I would have said FOR SURE that Hooters would drop the Hot Girl premise and just become a normal restaurant but keep the funny name. I’m way more shocked that they went this direction than I am that they exploited their employees a little more. They’re 100% going in the wrong direction.
There are plenty of restaurants without any sexuality involved in them. Why not have one chain that does? Obviously there are people who want it and that's fine.
Load More Replies...Applies for job at Hooters - a place premised on hot girls in skimpy outfits - then complains about skimpy outfits. Hooters is one step up from lap dancing and Onlyfans; it's no surprise that they treat the girls like lumps of meat.
I am going to work for a restaurant called Hooters but i am against sexism
Okay? People need to realize that sexism and sexuality are very different things.
Load More Replies...I'm not really sure how I feel about this. I mean, Hooters has never hidden the fact that they are about objectifying women so can we really be mad when they do just that?
Yes, yes we can. They could wake up and stop doing that, instead they up the objectification.
Load More Replies...I'm simply baffled there are any women at all who will voluntarily work at Hooters...
Sometimes you just really need the money and it's all you can get. Just don't judge the waiters, judge the management.
Load More Replies...I've read this a few times and still can't understand why women who are hired solely based on their looks, in a restaurant where it's main selling points are hooters (and booties) complain about having to wear revealing clothes. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF HOOTERS! THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE HIRED FOR!
Because the world is generally pretty decent so the wannabe activists have to jump on whatever they can and hype it up. The other option would be to go to a country with ACTUAL serious misogyny problems, but they can't do that from the comfort of their computer chair so...
Load More Replies...Yeah, all the men who work at hooters have to wear it too...idiot
Load More Replies...WHY work for a place that is SPECIFICALLY known for scantily clad waitstaff and then bitch about the skimpy uniforms? SHUT UP and go get a wait job at Applebees or some s**t.!
maybe because you need to feed a family and the tips at other 'restaurants' are lower? dunno, just guessing.
Load More Replies...The place is expensive to eat. But first of all it's called Hooters for a reason and that's suggestive that you will see tits hanging out. So with that in mind, what's so different about the shorts? A lot of girls these days are wearing less of a bikini bottom with most of their ass hanging out like sluts. If the girls don't like the shorts they can leave for a different job. Just because they work there and don't like the change doesn't mean they have a right to keep it as before. It's a private business.
Count me as someone who supports a business's right to require vaccine mandates and someone who supports Hooter's ability to set its own dress code.
Good gosh, its HOOTERS. These ladies know what the job is, and for them to complain is simply dumb. Reminds me of the lady at Hooters at Mall of America who objected to wearing the uniform. She quit, took a job as a server elsewhere where she could wear more modest clothes, then sued Hooters for her now lower tips. Yeah, men are pigs and tip more pretty women wearing shorts and t-shirts. Whine all you want, this is life. No one forces anyone to work there, they violate no laws, and the servers get abnormal tips. Don't like it, work elsewhere. You do not have a RIGHT to work somewhere with higher than average tips. Just quit and stop whining on social media if you are "offended". I am sure this will get blasted here on this website, but its the truth. Same as working at Hooters you do not deserve the same tips as working at a strip club. Men will pay what they want, for the environment they want. For the record I go to neither.
If my daughter needed to work one place I could say she definitely would not be working is Hooters and any other place that requires the girls to dress sexy. They may as well be strippers or pole dancers, better pay I am sure.
If your daughter is over 18, she can work at whatever job she wants.
Load More Replies...F*****g drama queens. You work for a restaurant chain who's business model is mainly patrons being served hot chicks by hot chicks. Don't act surprised. And get your vaccine shots so that we can continue to enjoy their crappy food.
Jumping from attractive waitress to literally just a strip club is a big jump
Load More Replies...Girls fight to be free to wear this kind of clothes to go to school but not at work?
Choice. If they choose it, OK. If they’re forced or coerced into it, not OK. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop with this—-corporate suddenly saying they’re no longer ordering the classic orange shorts, or that they’re no longer being made, thereby making the thong shorts the only option. That’s when there’ll be a mass exodus of waitresses and maybe a couple lawsuits, to boot.
Load More Replies...what do any of them expect working at Hooters? Don't like it, don't work there. Simple.
There seems to be this misunderstanding among people, most of those women don’t work at a hooters because they want too, they do it because they have too
Load More Replies...So what? You understand there’s more than a handful of people alive right?
Load More Replies...Super emotional response, Kev. Calm down, Sugartits. You have no power here lol.
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