You know things are serious when America’s biggest breastaurant chain starts closing locations.
At least six Hooters restaurants in Texas suddenly joined the growing list of restaurant closures over the weekend, and more may follow.
A handful of Texas Hooters locations have been listed as “permanently closed” on Google, and national sports bar chain officials have confirmed the closure. U-Haul moving trucks were spotted being loaded outside of Lubbock’s Hooters, which was among the Texas locations to permanently close.
Hooters employees also shared the closure is the most recent of around 40 locations that have shuttered across the U.S. In addition to the Texas locations, Florida also saw the closure of a Hooters over the weekend.
“Like many restaurants under pressure from current market conditions, Hooters has made the difficult decision to close a select number of underperforming stores,” the company stated in an email. “Ensuring the well-being of our staff is our priority in these rare instances. With new Hooters restaurants opening domestically and internationally, new Hooters frozen products launching at grocery stores, and the Hooters footprint expanding into new markets with both company and franchise locations, this brand of 41 years remains highly resilient and relevant.”
The following Texas locations appear to be permanently closed:
Bryan: 960 N Earl Rudder Fwy Lubbock: 4950 S Loop 289 McAllen: 410 E Expressway 83 San Angelo: 4384 Sherwood Way Seabrook: 1818 NASA Road 1 Wichita Falls: 3701 Call Field Rd
According to the New York Post, “Roughly 40 of the 300 restaurants worldwide were shut, including in Florida, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. The number of Hooters locations has declined by 12% since 2018.”
You know a recession is serious when men stop paying for beer, cheeseburgers and fried appetizers delivered by busty, scantily-clad waitresses.
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
Tags: Biden Recession, Economics, Florida, Hooters, Kentucky, restaurants, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia
Their website shows 39 locations in Texas – and doesn’t include the 6 mentioned here.
https://www.hooters.com/locations/?address=texas
6 out of 45 locations is 13% of their Texas footprint. That’s no small beans.
The one in Seabrook is down the street from JSC. It’s been there a long time. (I went there a few time back in the late 1980s with fellow NASA employees. Actually that is the last time I went there or any Hooters. Forty odd years ago.)
My bet is they got slammed by the Hwy 146 construction that has been going on for the last 10 or so years. Lousy access. Of course, now they finished it up and traffic flow is great..
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Here’s the latest casualty in Columbia SC:
http://columbiaclosings.com/wordpress/?p=23335
Hooters food and service have gone downhill in recent years.
While Hooters is the largest breastaurant chain, it is pretty tame compared to some competitors. Redneck Heaven has nights where the girls wear bikini bottoms and paint for a top. Can’t wait for one to open near me.
Wikipedia says that all Redneck Heaven locations are defunct.
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