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Hooters Fight Gives City 2 Restaurants (you couldn't make this stuff up if you tried)
AP via Forbes ^
| February 1, 2007
| Jeff Karoub
Posted on 02/01/2007 1:48:35 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity
TROY, Mich. ) -- A fight to discourage Hooters restaurant from expanding in this well-to-do Detroit suburb by blocking its liquor license has backfired: Now there are two restaurants just two miles apart.
Troy, a high-income city of just 80,000 people and home to the state's only Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue department stores, now has another distinction. It is the only non-resort city of its size to have two Hooters.
"You come directly off the interstate and that's the first thing you come to," said Wade Fleming, a councilman who voted in June to reject the transfer of a liquor license to the new Hooters restaurant from a rundown tavern that once operated at the same location. "That starts to define Troy, I think, and that's not how we'd like to define Troy."
Hooters executives want just one restaurant in Troy, but the company won't close the old one until it's allowed to serve alcohol at the new restaurant, which opened Monday on a larger, more visible site.
Critics are concerned that the restaurants' scantily clad servers don't fit the image the city seeks to project in its Big Beaver commercial district. Fleming said officials are trying to make the area a "world-class corridor." ...
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I'm sorry, what did you say the name of that 'commercial district' was that you wanted to keep Hooters away from?
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I thought hooters always came in pairs...
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:50:18 PM PST
by
WV Mountain Mama
(Relax, it was probably a joke.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
It seems to me that Hooters was made for the Big Beaver Commercial District.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:50:41 PM PST
by
ohioman
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:51:01 PM PST
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Never been in a Hooters, but I like the way they fought the EEOC when they wouldn't hire a man as a waiter. The EEOC actually backed off.
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Critics are concerned that the restaurants' scantily clad servers don't fit the image the city seeks to project in its Big Beaver commercial district.
They want the big beaver to be covered in "The Veil"
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:51:48 PM PST
by
TheKidster
(you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
To: WV Mountain Mama
Big Beaver?...... Hooters?.........Mama!
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Critics are concerned that the restaurants' scantily clad servers don't fit the image the city seeks to project in its Big Beaver commercial district.
LOL - I'm dying here!
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I'm sorry, what did you say the name of that 'commercial district' was that you wanted to keep Hooters away from?
oh don't worry.. it gets worse. big beaver road is exit 69.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:52:58 PM PST
by
absolootezer0
(stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
To: ohioman
You do know that the exit number for "Big Beaver Rd" off of I-75 is #69. (Seriously)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I wonder if the Big Beaver district plays the Primus song, elevator style, in the department stores...
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:53:01 PM PST
by
WV Mountain Mama
(Relax, it was probably a joke.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Hooters ought to compromise and change the name of that establishment to "THE BIG BEAVER" a subsidiary of Hooters. How could the council object, it is their name.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:53:12 PM PST
by
MPJackal
("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
To: ohioman
I live near there...the Big Beaver exit on I-75 is exit 69...
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
The Rosie O'Donnell Zone....
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:53:48 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
("BOAT PEOPLE" - The result of the last time the Democrats stabbed our allies in the back.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
Many a battle was fought over "Hooters of Troy"
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:53:55 PM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
You were right. You can't make this stuf up. they really need to change the name of the district. :)
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:54:22 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
To: Lando Lincoln
Keep in mind that this also takes place in the city of Troy, so the restaurants will undoubtedly, be serving Trojans.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:54:33 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Voted Free Republic's Most Eligible Bachelor: 2006. Love them Diebold machines.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
This thread is twice as useless without pics.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:54:38 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Corin Stormhands; Ramius
It is the only non-resort city of its size to have two Hooters.LOL.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:54:40 PM PST
by
ecurbh
(Giuliani 2008 - http://www.rudygforamerica.com/)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
I haven't been back to a Hooters since they threw me out...for ordering a Happy Meal.
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posted on
02/01/2007 1:54:43 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
("BOAT PEOPLE" - The result of the last time the Democrats stabbed our allies in the back.)
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