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Pretty sure every job I've had, there's always been one or two creepy 50-60 y/o's who bring up Hooters unsolicited and exclaim that "I go there for the wings! They're actually pretty good!"
Like, dude, you're not fooling anyone. Just say you like tits. Or better, shut your fucking mouth and don't say anything at all - I really don't care how good your meal at the titty bar was.
Their wings are/were better than BW3 which for a long while was the only other wing place that had seating where I live.
Facts!
Used to go there regularly with friends (male and female) for wings and football. The uniforms they wear are closer to 80's jazzersize outfits than stripper outfits, the were plenty of small-breasted servers, and we stopped going when we realized the "good cook" was no longer there.
The server outfits and whole thing were a gimmick. Their wings were fantastic!
.... Until they changed up their sauce game. They went from the delicious basic sauce at varying levels of heat, to a BWW-style lineup of flavored sauces that all suck.
Their curly fries and cheese sauce were actually good. Everything else? Yeah it’s the tits.
In any other context, "It's the tits!" would be a glowing review.
I'm learning that there are a lot of towns with exactly one restaurant, and it just happens to be a Hooters.
They don't want to support a business that blatantly objectifies women - they didn't have a choice! It's the wings' fault!
oh no. you switched sides.
Lol hooters =/= titty bar. Do you consider the beach a titty bar?
I mean, have you met men?
Fill me in what do all those men have in common?
I had a pretty decent burger at a Hooters when I was working in an area without a whole lot of other choices nearby that weren't burger king. I've been tempted a time or two to hit up hooters for that burger again, but I can't bring myself to do it.
It isn't just Hooters. Twin Peaks and Tilted Kilt are still going strong, embarrassingly.
The twin peaks near me unironically have better food and sauces than the place I work at (which is about 2x more expensive)
I did some IT work for Twin Peaks about a decade or so back, they are trashy as hell but they do legit have decent wing sauce. I still wouldn’t go there because I have other options but of the brestaurants they have the best food
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I went to the Tilted Kilt not knowing what that was… it was more uncomfortable for me than my date. Never went back and that location has been long closed.
A while later, another partner and I were driving past a Twin Peaks restaurant under construction when I joked that with a name like that it sounds like an upscale Hooters… and a few seconds later we both realized that’s exactly what it was.
Same. The twin peaks didn't even register with me until my brother, father, and I met there while he was traveling through before christmas. My dad commented on their christmas outfits being cold, I realized why it was named twin peaks, and my brother suddenly regretted mentioning where he was meeting us to his girlfriend.
Is tilted kilt the gay version?
If you mean is it the one with sexualized male waitstaff, no, not to my experience.
Uh... You realize Hooters is already "the gay version", right? Not that* calling any of them "the gay version" in the first place makes any sense, since that's determined by the sexuality of the person going to the restaurant, not of the workers in the restaurant.
Look buddy, I just want to see hogs while I eat.
If there was a restaurant that would let me service the hot male waitstaff between courses, I would be a daily patron.
Server checks out
I ended up staying at a chain hotel outside of New York City that had a Tilted Kilt attached. I did not know what that was, it was a "restaurant." Walk in there, the waitstaff are all pretty girls with fake blonde hair, short plaid skirts and belly shirts, and you go "oh."
It wasn't especially busy, and while waiting for a table the hostess talked to me. I'm betting they're required to do that by house rules, but she just made conversation. "You in town long? Where you from? There's a pretty nice sushi place on such and so street. Yeah your phone will tell you that's the easiest way to get back to the main road but if you go out the back of the parking lot it's fewer lights." And I didn't really mind that.
Food was to be expected from a sit down chain restaurant.
Never heard of Tilted Kilt...
they aren't even wearing a sporran or even kilt hoses!!!
TF is wrong with them!
Story time. I was traveling in the US on a vacation there with my family. I'm talking a European couple in their 30s with two girls, around 5 and 7 yo. We made a stop for gas and lunch and went to Hooters... We realized the nature of the place after we were seated. By this time, we wouldn't dare to leave without eating... Lunch was short that day. I don't think the kids realized anything though.
There weren't any kids involved, just my wife and me, but the same thing happened the first and only time I went to Tilted Kilt.
I learned the term for these establishments is "Brestaurant."
I literally took my kids to an Airbnb that turned out to be a swingery/free love/brothely place. It was lovely though, nice folks, nothing untoward happened besides the lady who was weirdly insistent I ring the big gong. Just funny when I realized and told my kids.
Many years ago, my team and I went to Hooters for lunch (don't judge). I ordered a chicken sandwich. Everyone but me got their food, so I asked the waitress what happened. She apologized and brought me a chicken sandwich fairly quickly. I was halfway through it when my (original) chicken sandwich arrived.
It was just a plain broiled skinless chicken breast on a toasted roll. No one went to Hooters for the food.
I had a friend in like 5th grade who was always talking about how his dad took him there for birthdays and stuff. Even back then I thought it was lame. I've been dragged there a few times and never found any of the waitresses to be that impressive to be honest. Like they were attractive and all but nothing out of the ordinary you would see anywhere else.
The hooters near me has signs that say “kids under 12 half off” and “family night deals”
Like pick a lane hooters, are you a titty restaurant or a family place? Im sure they do it cause business is bad but it’s hilarious
I've been sitting here for minutes trying to figure out what "kids wm under 12" means and I can't come up anything
I used to go to hooters sometimes because it was the only place in town with an all you can eat wings night and the wings were really good.
I hated the experience overall but I can eat a lot of wings if I put my mind to it which evened it out a lot.
I went for the ALL YOU CAN EAT wings.
It was literally the only place in my city that did it at the time.
Big difference, imo.
The wings WERE good but not so good I'd go there if I had any other options.
Also, I don't know if you've ever eaten 8 pounds of hot wings, but I have, and the absolute fucking mess it makes of you combined with acute gastrointestinal distress means that any woman that saw you consume that amount of chicken wings will be utterly incapable of even pretending to flirt with you, but also that sex will be the thing least on your mind as the fiery talons of Satan himself forcefully shreds your asshole like an eight year old ripping open the wrapping paper of a Christmas present.
The utter uninhibited depravity of all you can eat wings night is concretely antithetical to the concept of sex, and the spectacle itself may be the strongest evidence I've ever encountered for the non existence of god.
I was pretty happy that we had two all-you-can-eat wings places: hooters and a local joint opened by some retired EMTs. Somehow, though, they found out about how happy everyone in the area was that there were two nights a week of all-you-can-eat, and then the local placed switched to the same night as hooters. I guess they thought that if people would bring their family to their place on the all-you-can-eat night, they'd be more steady customers on other nights. Super sad, yo. I think the hooters went out of business now, while the other place is still open.
I read the history of Hooters a few years back when I first heard of it... And thought somone was making up some bullshit.
And uh... Yeah, the creators knew exactly what the were doing.
I've never understood the point of deliberately overpaying to be surrounded by attractive women who definitely wouldn't date me. I can get the same quality of food at an IHOP that's being served by whatever random person they hired based on something other than their boobs.
Its a novelty, its not just men who go. And the girls get tipped well. There was never any harm in it. And not all the girls had big tits. The time I went I was on holiday visiting a mate in the US. The local bar was closed, so we went there for a meal as I hadnt had anything on the plane. The girl who served us was very nice, no not in the way. In the talking to us and having a laugh kind of way. She even helped me out with cashing in some travellers cheques. Just a lovely girl, doing a job in a t shirt and shorts. And getting good tips without being a stripper.
Thanks for being reasonable about this. It's a chicken restaurant after all and it's only as weird as the patrons make it.
i really don't think americans understand how wild it is to outsiders, even the concept of a strip club is absolutely insane to me as a swede. I've never even seen a dedicated sex shop, only "adult toys" discreetly tucked away behind the counter at a grimey tech chain that went out of business a while back.
I think what sets of the alarm bells in my head is that it's specifically the theme of the place, if you don't make it about tits but still exclusively hire stacked waitresses it feels way less uncomfortable, assuming you also skip the fetish uniforms...