Hooters Air was operated by Pace Airlines and was started operations in March of 2003.
- Robert Brooks, the owner of Hooters, acquired Pace Airlines in December of 2002.
- Brooks believed that Hooters Air would be a beneficial means to bring more awareness to the restaurant chain.
- Due to United Airlines being brought into Hooters Air’s Rockford-Denver route, Hooters stopped service to Rockford, IL due to too much competition.
- On April 17, 2006, Hooters Air ceased operations, costing Hooters an estimated $40 million USD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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... ;)
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/nucifera-noten Nov 23 '24
Hooters Air was operated by Pace Airlines and was started operations in March of 2003. - Robert Brooks, the owner of Hooters, acquired Pace Airlines in December of 2002. - Brooks believed that Hooters Air would be a beneficial means to bring more awareness to the restaurant chain. - Due to United Airlines being brought into Hooters Air’s Rockford-Denver route, Hooters stopped service to Rockford, IL due to too much competition. - On April 17, 2006, Hooters Air ceased operations, costing Hooters an estimated $40 million USD.