Hooters has always just kind of been OK food-wise, with a novelty aspect. It just don't cut it anymore, that novelty can only carry you so far.

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Originally posted by sjtill:

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Not to mention the new generation of candy ass males don’t drink beer or look at tits.

Now I think you've hit on something (not someone).

My older brother in 1995'96?, went to a private christian school, they did a car wash (on their own time) to pay for some trip or something, and afterwards went to Hooters.
They tried to kick them all out of the school. I remember the phrase of "The demons of homosexuality" being used in their creepy lecture to these 16-17 year old boys. Because they, on their own time, went to a place to eat where there were, girls.
The school was later shut down because of the lawsuit, after the criminal case. One of the male teachers was molesting male students.

I haven't seen or heard about Hooters in so long, I thought they were already out of business a decade ago.

I don't think I was ever in one either. When I stop at a restaurant, I go for the food.

I went to Hooters once, in the early 1990s. I was working on a contract in Raleigh NC, and the owner of the small contracting company wanted to go to Hooters for lunch.

It was very embarrassing for me -- the company owner, supposedly an adult, acting like a seventh grade adolescent in the restaurant.

I heard they are changing the business to a delivery style. It's going to be called Knockers.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Maybe they need trans waitresses. Yeah, that'll fix it!

5 posts down. Yikes!

The only thing Hooters has that most wing joints don't is smoked wings and a good dry rub called Texas BBQ Dry Rub. I haven't been in one since '16, but a few times per year I'll have their smoked wings delivered.

Speaking of the last time I was in one, back in '16 I was working out of a project office for about 3 months and drove past a Hooter's every day. Finally, I stopped there on what should've been happy hour, but it was a dead and I was one of 3 tables in the entire joint. The waitress was pleasant, but was far from the smokin' hot Hooter's gals I remember from the 90s. Wings come out breaded (I had forgot about that abomination), and barely had any medium buffalo sauce on them. The waitress goes to the back and gets a small sauce bowl for me, but it literally looks like half butter half sauce. I ask what is the matter with the sauce and the answer is they only have hot buffalo sauce and cut it with melted butter and that mild would have an even higher ratio of butter to sauce. Breastaurants are supposed to make money by getting the customer in the door with good food, and be flirty to keep customers lingering longer for after dinner for another drink and/or dessert. Instead, my experience was:

waitress was a disappointment

breaded wings were a disappointment

sauce was a disappointment as it tasted like spiced butter. I even stirred the "sauce" several times.

I left after 1 beer and didn't even finish all of the shitty wings (a rarity for me).

There are currently 8 in Houston metro area (used to be over a dozen), but that was my one and only visit since moving to Houston 8.5 years ago. This morning, I was surprised that location is still open. The nearest location to me closed 3 or 4 years ago, and now the nearest one is in a sketchy area that sends lots of customers to my county's emergency room.

For a hell of a lot less money:

I have a BGE and can and do smoke better wings .

I have an air fryer and paired with HEB's wing sauce make wings that blow Hooters away

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I remember going to Hooters for the first time. 1991. First time I ever had buffalo wings.

In the last 30+ years, though, wings became more mainstream. Buffalo Wild Wings and Wingstop, just to name 2 franchises I frequent, have MUCH better wings with MUCH greater variety. Last time I went to Hooters (1996), they had only one flavor of wings, with about 4-5 levels of spiciness (IIRC, mild, medium, hot, atomic).

The world changes, and those who don't change with it are going to wither away (Ponderosa, Kmart, even big malls; all dead or dying).

And Hooters isn't the only breastaurant around anymore. Here in San Antonio, they have Twin Peaks and Bombshells, and they have The Tiltet Kilt in other cities. There are otjer places to go for eye candy, and better choices for better wings.

Of course, the woke thing doesn't help at all. I would think the majority of their customers go there for the eye candy. Take that away, and you just have substandard wings served by freaks in dresses. . . Who wants to see that?

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
but it literally looks like half butter half sauce.

That was what wing sauce was for years. Equal parts butter and Frank's.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
but it literally looks like half butter half sauce.

That was what wing sauce was for years. Equal parts butter and Frank's.

Your partial quote missed the salient point. They aren't making a pot of sauce by blending frank's and butter like the recipe that started the whole wing craze in Bufffaly, NY. They have hot buffalo sauce and are eyeballing the addition of butter to make medium and mild. It was two unblended/separated blobs in a sauce bowl that was roughly 50/50 hot buffalo and butter. I've eaten hundreds and hundreds of pounds of wings over the years and it was the most disgusting "sauce" I can remember.

Corporate actually has factories that make hot, medium, and mild and sell to restaurants and grocers. What this location was doing has zero chance of having consistency or standards which is another nail in the customer experience.