Hooters
Hooters was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida, on April 1, 1983, by six local businessmen. The date was an April Fools’
Day joke because the original six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail. Their first Hooters restaurant
was built on the site of a former rundown nightclub. So many businesses had folded in that particular location that the
Hooters founders built a small “graveyard” at the front door for each that had come and gone before them. The first
restaurant opened its doors on October 4, 1983.
In 1984 Hugh Connerty bought the rights to Hooters from the Original Hooters 6. Robert H. Brooks and a group of
Atlantan investors (operators of Hooters of America, Inc.) bought out Hugh Connerty. In 2002, Brooks bought majority
control and became chairman. The Clearwater-based company retained control over restaurants in the Tampa Bay Area,
Chicago metropolitan area, and one in Manhattan, New York, while all other locations were under the guidance of Hoot-
ers of America, which sold franchising rights to the rest of the United States and international locations.
Hooters of America, LLC, the lease guarantor, is the proud franchisor and operator of more than 420 Hooters restaurants
in 42 states and 29 countries. The company’s first overseas location was in Singapore, and there are Hooters restaurants
in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Czech Republic, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Philippines,
South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia, and one in the United Kingdom. The Hooters menu
includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steaks, seafood entrees, appetizers, and the restaurant’s specialty, chicken
wings. Hooters is famous for the woman waiting staff, usually referred to simply as “Hooter Girls”, who are a primary
component of the company’s image.
Website:
www.hooters.com
Number of
Locations:
420+
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia
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