Hooters opening three restaurants to target unexpected market and save their business - but local women are furious

Hooters is group to unfastened 3 restaurants successful an unexpected location and it's causing uproar among immoderate successful nan section community.  

The restaurant, known for its scantily clad waitresses, has announced it is opening caller restaurants successful Florida status hotspot, The Villages.

The institution claims nan move - to what is wide regarded arsenic nan largest status organization successful nan world - is gathering a celebrated demand. But immoderate section women are acold from impressed. 

One specified resident, Barbara Procko, wrote to local insubstantial Villages News astir nan 'trashy' constitution she fears will little nan reside of nan community. 

'What encephalon spot thinks a Hooters constitution is simply a bully fresh for a elder status community?' Procko wrote to nan outlet's editor.

If I wanted to unrecorded pinch trash, I would person moved to a trashy place,' she added.  

Maddy Courtier, different Villages resident, was inclined to agree. 

'We emotion surviving present successful specified a beautiful community. The organization is good maintained pinch beautiful play courses,' she wrote successful her ain letter. 

'I consciousness that Hooters is simply a trashy edifice and really who will spell there?' she asked. 

'Golfers, grandparents taking their children and grandchildren? In my opinion, it will not beryllium a bully fresh and will extremity up closing down,' nan missive concluded.

Hooters will beryllium betting that Courter is wrong, arsenic nan move into nan status marketplace appears to beryllium a past ditch effort to revive nan concatenation pursuing a raft of caller closures. 

It emerged successful June that Hooters had shuttered 40 restaurants successful caller months, arsenic it battles dwindling customers and rising costs. 

The closures included locations successful Florida, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia.  

'Like galore restaurants nether unit from existent marketplace conditions, Hooters has made nan difficult determination to adjacent a prime number of underperforming stores,' a spokesperson told DailyMail.com astatine nan time.  

The openings besides people thing of a return to Hooter's location state, having opened its first location successful Clearwater, Florida successful 1983.  

'There are 3 locations coming to The Villages,' a spokesperson for Hooters said successful a statement. 

'The residents of The Villages person asked for Hooters and we are excited to bring them,' nan spokesperson explained. 

'We are looking guardant to increasing and expanding successful this premier marketplace for years to come.'

The first location, opening successful early 2025, will beryllium astatine Lake Deaton Plaza connected Kristine Way. 

The Villages whitethorn beryllium turning their chemoreceptor up astatine Hooters, but reports overgarment a image of nan status organization as thing but a sleepy backwater. 

Recent reports propose nan sprawling tract is really a haven of drunken debauchery that includes a thriving swingers' segment and achromatic marketplace for Viagra. 

Earlier this week, a Hooters waitress Maia Marie, 23, revealed she made much than $450 successful conscionable 1 half shift astatine nan chain. 

'I ended up stepping retired of location pinch $451,' Marie said successful a viral TikTok video viewed 3.8 cardinal times. So, complete a afloat displacement it would apt beryllium double that.

Hooters has shutting nan 40 locations earlier this twelvemonth has leff it pinch about 300 restaurants globally. That is down from 333 successful 2018, according to Techonomic.

Meanwhile, different alleged ‘breastaurant’ concatenation Bombshells has suffered a crisp driblet successful takings.

Bombshells is simply a concatenation of military-themed restaurants founded successful Texas wherever waitresses deterioration harvest tops and slug belts.