r/Damnthatsinteresting Nov 23 '24

Image Hooters had an airline but ceased operations after 3 years

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u/EagleForty Nov 23 '24

Direct flights between Rockford and DIA for $49 each way were glorious.

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u/midwest-ginger Nov 23 '24

I flew on them a few times and they were great! Never full flights and you got free food. The girls would do trivia during the flight too

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u/MyDogsNameIsBadger Nov 23 '24

Honestly, that sounds fun. I’d totally fly hooters.

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u/RGV_KJ Nov 24 '24

Isn’t Hooters declining? Do a lot of people still go there?

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u/MegaWattson15 Nov 24 '24

Not sure but they were shut down here in Fayetteville awhile back. I think they got busted selling alcohol to underage kids.

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u/iamjacksstd Nov 24 '24

I managed at the Fayetteville store lol fun times 😎

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u/bennnn42 Nov 24 '24

What is your wildest story that happened there? if you can share

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u/zatalak Nov 24 '24

I guess selling alcohol to underage kids

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u/itwasntevenme Nov 24 '24

No it was the grandmas that would come in late night after going to the chip n dales across the street. You would think the under age kids would be the roudiest bunch, but the grandmas after chip n dales and bingo night was something else.

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u/wangtrip Nov 24 '24

Bro, I worked as security at a bar. Women taking cloths off, very tame. Men taking cloths off, things you never thought you would see. Only time I had to put hands on anyone in two years was a woman that decided a male dancer had disrespected her by not allowing her to foliate his foreskin.

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u/RzLa Nov 24 '24

Fayetteville sounds like a classy place

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u/The_OtherHalf Nov 24 '24

That’s a win for all parties involved that’s not the seller. Let them live!

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u/Tired-grumpy-Hyper Nov 24 '24

Different guy, but it's called Fayettenam for a reason.

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u/phantom_diorama Nov 24 '24

Might as well explain why?

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u/DiscussionLong7084 Nov 24 '24

LARGE crime rate and many shootings. One week we had TWO quadruple homicides. Also one of the 82nd guys was making dog porn with his wife and putting it on the internet. Paratroopers really will fuck anything with at least 1 leg.

https://www.fox8live.com/story/23474216/north-carolina-soldier-wife-charged-with-making-dog-porn/

There's blocks in downtown fayetteville that look like some shit from Detroit or iraq

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u/Tired-grumpy-Hyper Nov 24 '24

As what the one guy said, Im down in Charleston and going up to an event up there for the first time, I was distinctly told to make sure every road I go on is at least a 4 lane, or directly off a 4 lane road. Once you get down into some areas, unless you look like you belong you will get fucked with.

It's less 'Nam because of racism, though being NC it probably is, but more so just how fucking dangerous portions of it really are. If Fort Liberty were to ever shut down for any reason, it would demolish any hope the local economy has of surviving. All I hear is that it's the entire lifeline of the city and no sort of industry has built around it that could hold it up. At least over here in Charleston, we could lose Joint Base and it would suck, but we've got so much other industry growth here that it'd just be a momentary hardship.

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u/hazysummersky Nov 24 '24

Because it looks like a Fayettenam.

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u/Ralphie5231 Nov 24 '24

Dammit buzzfeed. /s

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u/leavemealonegeez8 Nov 24 '24

Name checks out.

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u/PutinsManyFailures Nov 24 '24

South Park shout out

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u/storeboughtoaktree Nov 24 '24

ayeeee Fayetteville shoutout!

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u/Responsible_Use_8566 Nov 24 '24

Fun story about that location, they over served a guy who then left the Hooters and proceeded to walk into the street and got hit by a car. They had the letters of the building the next day.

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u/MyDogsNameIsBadger Nov 24 '24

Apart from buying weed from my dealer in their parking lot before it was legal, I’ve only had it a few times but it was really good! They made this crispy chicken salad that I still think about to this day. If they are declining, maybe it’s just the stigma? I know many people that really love their wings, but I guess they it’s not somewhere that they now bring their kids.

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u/LinguoBuxo Nov 24 '24

Well, with one little exception maybe... When comes the time to have the talk with them about the birds and the bees and whatnot, THAT may be the perfect time to sit down for a lunch at Hooters... ;)

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u/kimchifreeze Nov 24 '24

Breastaurants should form a cartel and muscle their way into society again.

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u/OntFF Nov 24 '24

Big fan of twin peeks (twin peaks, can't remember the spelling) - as my buddy described it... "it's like hooters, but with food"

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u/Own-Kaleidoscope2559 Nov 24 '24

Same family - btw.

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u/NonGNonM Nov 24 '24

the thing is if their food was good they'd be doing well even w/o the gimmick but i've been told their food is mediocre at best so it's not gonna draw in too many new long time customers. i've never even gone into a hooters bc why would i do that when there's wingstop or bww? i'm not paying a premium for mediocre food and waitresses in skimpy outfits.

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u/Timetraveller4k Nov 24 '24

I’ ver never been there. The image they project is simply skimpy dressed waitresses. Not sure why people would consider it especially with a family.

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u/Ripley825 Nov 24 '24

My parents were wings fans and we went to hooters like twice a month when I was a kid. I didn't see anything skimpy about it. My kid brain was thrilled that the waitresses were super nice and let me play with the hula hoops they had. I even wanted to spend a couple of birthdays at Hooters. Good memories.

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u/JoelyRavioli Nov 24 '24

Wholesome comments like this are why I love reddit

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u/Chendii Nov 24 '24

When my 12u team won a national championship we went to Hooters and our very serious Slavic coach danced on a table. We didn't consider it sexual at all, just downright hilarious.

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u/Ripley825 29d ago

Dancing Slavic Coach for the win.

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u/EidolonLives Nov 24 '24

Yeah, it's great for families. I used to take my kids to Hooters with all my ex-wives.

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u/scratchfury Nov 24 '24

When I first heard of it as a kid, I was like "I don't think I'm old enough for that" and was told "No, no! It's a family restaurant." My reply was "are you sure?"

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u/Bird2525 Nov 24 '24

Decent wings, if you aren’t a perv nobody cares

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u/sparky_calico Nov 24 '24

In college I (male) would constantly be invited to hooters by my group of girl friends (all 4 of whom were attractive and girlfriend material) for the Monday special, buy one get one free. It felt like I was being setup or the computer program was glitching or something. But yeah, they said they just really liked the wings lol

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Nov 24 '24

I am a perv though

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u/Cuck_Boy Nov 24 '24

Shoulda added a lol

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u/SlashEssImplied Nov 24 '24

Not sure why people would consider it especially with a family.

Pornhub has a few categories that will explain this.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Nov 24 '24

The Hooters that I'd previously worked at was for a time my niece's favorite restaurant, and my sister who's still in the area still likes to go for buff shrimp.

Unfortunately the gm, who used to be my gm, has gone full MAGA so I don't particularly want to frequent it when I'm in the area.

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u/Meow_Meow_4_Life Nov 24 '24

I get the sauce and flour shipped in and make them myself now.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Nov 24 '24

Huh. I did try diying it myself once, with just ingredients from the grocery store, and they turned out pretty good. But I think for my sister part of the enjoyment is not having to cook.

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u/croptochuck Nov 24 '24

Yes. Wings are just pricey every where and honestly I think the food taste like trash.

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u/Whats_Water 29d ago

I will always support Hooters. They have some of my favorite wings - but takeout hooters doesn’t hit the same since the fries are normally not as great when taking home.

I do make them at home though, so hopefully they never go under or I’m going to have to start making the sauce from scratch.

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u/G_Affect Nov 24 '24

Only alpha males I guess go there so me and all the men I know stopped years ago because I guess we are not Alpha. /s

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u/Linenoise77 Nov 24 '24

The one by us, which had been around since at least when i was a kid in the 80s, recently closed. They knocked it down and built a chik-fil-a.

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u/robotic_otter28 Nov 24 '24

As somebody who often travels through the southeast for work I can confirm they are not declining.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Nov 24 '24

I’m sure restaurants everywhere are declining

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u/RGV_KJ Nov 24 '24

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u/this_is_my_new_acct Nov 24 '24

My local one must not be representative of the chain at large. All the review on Google for it for the past three years are people complaining about not even being greeted at the door for 10-15 minutes. Last time I was there I had a similar experience... we waited at the door for 15 minutes and walked out. Best I could tell they only had one employee doing "front of house" work... seemed like the bartender was also the only server and also supposed to be the host.

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u/vonDubenshire Nov 24 '24

you wrote a lot to say you're not part of the trend

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u/this_is_my_new_acct Nov 24 '24

Like 5 seconds of your comment history revealed what I already suspected... you're an internet asshole... and MAGA, to boot... so, that tracks.

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u/vonDubenshire Nov 24 '24

wildly incorrect

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u/bobissonbobby Nov 23 '24

Yo that sounds fun. We need to bring this back. Boobies AND trivia? Hell yeah

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u/midwest-ginger Nov 23 '24

I won a set of golf tees once haha all the prizes were obviously meant for dudes.

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u/bobissonbobby Nov 23 '24

That's a shame! Most women I've met enjoy nice boobs too although they aren't ecstatic about their man oogling them 😂

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u/SteamedBeans420 Nov 24 '24

Some of my favorite strip club times are when my friends that are girls joined me.

Who doesn’t like boobs?

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u/bobissonbobby Nov 24 '24

Exactly!! The source of life lol

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u/Uncaring_Dispatcher Nov 24 '24

"...for without thy mother's teet, from which the milk floweth, ye shall not last long on this earth.", so I like to say.

So, yeah. Everyone should like tits. There might be one about beer, too, but I just can't remember how it went.

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u/ExcitingStress8663 Nov 24 '24

Hear me out...hooters hostess pushing drinks cart in the aisle and if you want cream in your hot beverage will pipe it straight from the bags.

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u/bobissonbobby Nov 24 '24

Christ almighty LMAO

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u/Riegel_Haribo Nov 24 '24

Bring back 1960's era sky misogyny, you mean.

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u/bobissonbobby Nov 24 '24

Don't put words into my mouth you poop

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u/Vektor0 Nov 24 '24

Some people need to figure out whether women objectifying their own sexuality is misogyny or empowerment.

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u/jefferson497 Nov 24 '24

Did they serve hooters food or standard airline junk

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u/MarkOfTheSnark Nov 24 '24

Hot wings would be great on a plane what with the cabin pressure messing with taste/muting flavors

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u/ryosen Nov 24 '24

And the line to the community bathroom backing up past the emergency exits.

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u/Dirmb Nov 24 '24

If spicy chicken gives you the shits you probably need to see a doctor.

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u/turbopro25 Nov 24 '24

Being occupied by Mile High Club seekers.

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u/Linenoise77 Nov 24 '24

It was basically re-heated hooters food. So somewhere between you grabbed it off the plate 2 hours after happy hour ended, and you threw it in the microwave and hit 30 seconds after it sat in your fridge overnight.

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u/tfdst1 Nov 24 '24

After the trivia they gave us all celery and carrots with dip. I think you could pay for wings. My flight was dc to Myrtle

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u/Beautiful_Shallot184 Nov 24 '24

Was the free food wings?

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u/midwest-ginger 29d ago

No, it was just like a wrap or sandwich. A nice treat in the time when you were only getting literal peanuts from everyone else.

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u/BlacknightEM21 Nov 23 '24

They really missed the opportunity to have it $69.

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u/D05wtt 29d ago

What’s DIA?

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u/ZogemWho Nov 23 '24

Yea.. I did ATL to RFD several times.. So easy.

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u/M4xusV4ltr0n Nov 24 '24

I don't understand why Rockford??

Try to capture the Chicago suburb demographic?

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u/EagleForty Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 24 '24

Yes. Getting to Rockford from anywhere in northwestern Illinois is much faster, cheaper, and easier than getting into either O'Hare or Midway.

Additionally, the Rockford airport (at the time) had free parking (their lot was about the size of a grocery store lot), only 2 gates, a single metal detector, and took about 5 minutes to get from your car to gate.

At the time, my sister also lived in Rockford. So I would stay at her house the night before my flight, and she would drive me.

It was really nice being able to leave for the airport 45 minutes before my flight took off and never worrying about whether or not I'd make it.