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Hooters hotties took to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday night, July 8, for a chance to win Miss Hooter’s International. Of the 130 bronzed bodies from all over the world, only one could be most worthy. Sara Hoots, from San Antonio, TX took the crown. The 12th Annual Miss Hooter’s International event wasn’t just a celebration of beauty, but also the 25th anniversary of the first Hooters, which opened in Clearwater, FL in Oct. 1983.

A 5-year-old boy slipped out of the Imagination Station child care center unnoticed Tuesday afternoon, crossed two busy streets and wandered to a restaurant on the Interstate 35E service road in 100-degree heat. Employees of Hooters found the child safe about 5:20 p.m. He left the child care center in the 2300 block of San Jacinto Boulevard, crossed the Interstate 35E northbound service road and Dallas Drive, bought a soft drink at a service station and walked to Hooters, where an employee found him in the parking lot and called police.

This is toooooooooooooooooo funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khuu-RhOBDU

ATLANTA, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Hooters of America announced that the NCAA has pulled a full page ad promoting the popular restaurant chain and featuring well known College Basketball Analyst Dick Vitale from the Final Four Official Tournament Program. Word of the ad removal reached Hooters Marketing Department late on Thursday when the ad agency that had placed the ad on behalf of Hooters received an e-mail from a representative of National Events Publications, which produces and sells program ads for the NCAA. The ad in question is a Full Page 4 Color image promoting Hooters 25th Anniversary...

** EXCERPT ** If turning 100 doesn't win you the right to celebrate with busty waitresses in tight clothes, Iowa resident John Persinger can't imagine what does. The centenarian rang in his entry into the triple digits at Hooters on Wednesday, according to a report by The Des Moines Register. His late wife Vi wouldn't have objected, since she was a regular with him at Hooters, the infamous chain known for the cleavage it serves up with beer and buffalo wings. ~snip~ The 120-pound World War II veteran and retired diesel mechanic lives alone in a one-bedroom house, according to...

If turning 100 doesn't win you the right to celebrate with busty waitresses in tight clothes, Iowa resident John Persinger can't imagine what does. The centenarian rang in his entry into the triple digits at Hooters on Wednesday, according to a report by The Des Moines Register. His late wife Vi wouldn't have objected, since she was a regular with him at Hooters, the infamous chain known for the cleavage it serves up with beer and buffalo wings. The Register notes that Persinger is one of only a few thousand American men that are 100 or older. "I don't know...

Jay Dow HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBS) ― The racy photos of cops cavorting with Hooters waitresses rocked the Hoboken Police Department. Now, officers face disciplinary charges after a scathing report on their conduct was released. The photos embarrassed and brought unwanted attention to the Hoboken police. Officers of the disbanded SWAT team and their chief are seen in the photos having a ball during Mardi Gras, and with Hooters waitresses during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Retiring Hoboken patrolman John Camile told CBS 2 HD he's moving on with a bit of a heavy heart. "You feel that weight that people...

Hooters restaurant sign referring to former President Bill Clinton and Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is seen in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina January 16, 2008. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)

The man responsible for shooting 2 people at a Knoxville Hooters Restaurant may have been shot at Western Plaza.

2008 Hooter's Calendar and Krispy Creme Calendar are now available. Pour a another cup of coffee indulge in a donut and start oggling...Found under Calendar's.

It's sexy, it's sacrilegious, it's scandalous, and it's just in time for Christmas. LA's hottest art curator Lenora Claire has done it again with a new collection of saucy art pieces guaranteed to get folks hot and bothered. Mixing Christmas themes with ample female breasts...Claire chose not to rest on her laurels of the hugely successful Golden Gals Gone Wild collection of this summer, but instead opted to pump up the volume with a new group of art that's poised to get viewers hot under the collar. We were lucky enough to interview the Los Feliz curator who will present...

WNYW-TV: What you're about to see raises serious questions about the character and reputation of an elite and highly trained part of the police department.

PHOENIX — The mother of a 17-month-old boy found dead after he was left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant was arrested on one felony count of negligent homicide. Police say the woman, Ashly Duchene, 22, left her son in her car when she arrived at the north Phoenix Hooters restaurant where she works at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. When she returned to the car after her shift at nearly 5 p.m., her son was dead. Efforts to revive the boy by witnesses, officers and firefighters were unsuccessful. Police Sgt....

......And now, with the opening of its 435th branch in Beijing, Hooters is now being touted as a barometer for globalization. With the 2008 Summer Olympic Games just 11 months away, Beijing has set about sprucing itself up for the surge of sports fans, media and tourists refurbishing its airport, updating security systems and launching foreigner-friendly restaurants....... ......Although Hooters Beijing is the Alabama-based restaurant's fourth branch in China, this opening is making waves. It was one thing when the first Hooters opened in the more cosmopolitan Shanghai in 2004, but in conservative Beijing, the "Hooters Makes You Happy" mentality feels...

Baristas quit in protest of racy dress code http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_082307WAB_monroe_latte_dress_TP.63094d58.html http://tinyurl.com/2oebjg 10:28 AM PDT on Friday, August 24, 2007 By ROB PIERCY / KING 5 News MONROE, Wash. – Workers at one coffee stand are taking a stand against their new boss. The owner is implementing a dress code – requiring employees to wear skimpy outfits. All the workers have quit. "I make coffee, I don't sell my body, you know?" That's what Barista Amy Klett told her boss at Lola Bean Espresso last week. "He said he was going with a franchise called Cowgirls and that the attire would be...

A trip to Hooters by a group of off-duty police officers has some leaders of an Orange County community upset because their town was left without local police coverage for the night. Several off-duty officers, other law enforcement officials and residents went to the restaurant and sports bar 35 miles away in Franklin, N.J., on Thursday, town of Deerpark officials said. None of the town's 18 officers were on duty that night. Two officers were originally scheduled for the shift, but one was suspended on an unrelated matter and the other was excused from duty because he had asked not...

The e-mail that arrived the other day wasn't the first on the subject. To be honest, it's been more than a year since the original. I meant to check it out, but I got busy. Then it slipped to the back of my mind, where it laid low until someone else's e-mail kicked it to the forefront last week. The latest author reported seeing this sign outside the Hooters restaurant on the Carlisle Pike: "Schoolgirl Thursday Hooters Style. Need we say more?" Yes, she continued, "they do need to say more. For starters, they can explain where they have lost...

March 27, 2007 -- THE folks who run Hooters may be the world's biggest boobs - for kissing off a chance to get Pam Anderson into one of their restaurants. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to book the Hooters on West 56th Street for a private party on April 17 feting "Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir," the new book by PETA honcho Dan Mathews, and planned to serve veggie Buffalo wings. But Hooters suits put the kibosh on the idea on grounds that the organization is too politically charged and controversial.

The INDIANAPOLIS STAR reports on the NCAA "monitoring room" nerve center, which keeps tabs in real-time on all things NCAA Tournament - including officiating, webcasts, security, and commercials. The monitors are made up of the very top NCAA officers, and have "access to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement at each of the eight first-round sites. They had a 243-page operations manual and an administrative manual labeled 'confidential'".

"Come on," she said, "It'll be fun." Whether it's fun or not we have teenagers in the house so any excuse to get away will have a palliative effect on my disposition. So off we went to Rosa Mexicano for a Saturday morning adult education session entitled: Real Men Cook Mexican. And fun it was. The merriment started when I stepped to the breakfast buffet to discover that one of the attendees, a woman who looked like Mammy Yokum's grandmother, had left her upper plate on the buffet table next to the pitcher of pineapple juice. No thank you. I'm...

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...

January 28, 2007 Hooters struggling with startup blues A year after opening, casino is slow to catch on with tourists By Liz Benston Las Vegas Sun The glow from those notorious orange shorts at the year-old Hooters Casino Hotel is struggling to be seen against the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. Founders of the Hooters restaurant chain, where busty "Hooters girls" wearing short-shorts and clingy tank tops serve up chicken wings and cheese fries, opened their first casino last February with great fanfare and press coverage from Montpelier to Manila. But the news isn't all good these days....

An Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy resigned Tuesday after Georgia authorities found nearly $1 million hidden in his car during a routine traffic stop last week. Emmanuel Sanchez, 30, of Alton, has not been arrested but is being investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of the way the money was allegedly discovered and concealed. Sanchez told Georgia State Patrol troopers he found the money behind a Hooters restaurant in Atlanta, said spokesman Trooper Larry Schnall. Some of the $950,000, which troopers seized, was discovered within the doors of Sanchez’s truck. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said Friday he has...

Mob rap in bagel boom   Feds tie S.I. attack in '01 to gangland rivals  BY ERNIE NASPRETTO and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS  My Deli in Staten Island was the target of a firebomb attack in 2001. Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli that was competing with a bagel store protected by the mob. The feds yesterday charged reputed Gambino crime associate Edward Fisher with orchestrating the December 2001 arson attack on My Deli and Grocery in Staten Island. Police had...

TEMPE, Ariz. — The Heart Attack Grill -- a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard -- is making health-care professionals' blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu. It is because of the waitresses' naughty nurse uniforms. The waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits, high heels and thigh-high stockings -- a male fantasy that some nursing organizations say is an insult to the profession. Several nurses have complained to the Arizona attorney general's office, and a national nursing group has repeatedly asked Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso to stop...

In the culture war between good and evil, decency and debauchery and class versus crass, a billboard along the Northwest Tollway has flip-flopped. For a few weeks, commuters making the trip from Chicago to the Northwest suburbs were subjected to a crude outdoor advertisement that recycled a risque, old joke. “Liquor in Schaumburg, poker in Vegas,” read the giant can’t-miss-it ad for Hooters, the restaurant chain that has managed to turn a sophomoric slang for women’s breasts into an eatery empire.

A Portland businessman plans to open a Hooters restaurant downtown, bringing the franchise to the state for the first time. Maine is one of only four states that doesn't have a Hooters, a chain known for its hot wings, owl logo and waitresses in snug, brief uniforms. Michael Harris, owner of the Stadium Restaurant at 504 Congress St., e-mailed a long letter to city officials and councilors Wednesday, detailing his yearlong effort to bring a franchise restaurant to his site in Portland.

Maybe I'm the wrong guy for this assignment. And maybe that's because, well, I'm a guy. So, if you're looking for shock, outrage and angry condemnation of London's soon-to-open Hooters restaurant, you won't find it here. Seeking once again to thrust this scribe into compromising circumstances of dubious merit, my editor sent me yesterday to the Radisson Hotel on Wellington Road, where officials with the Hooters Career Fair were meeting applicants for the more than 100 jobs available at the new Hooters Restaurant scheduled to open Oct. 7 on Wharncliffe Road, between Southdale and Commissioners roads. (The job fair continues...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Robert Brooks, the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who made his fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead at his home Sunday, officials said. He was 69. It was unclear how Brooks died, but the Horry County coroner's office told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News that an autopsy would be performed Monday. Several calls to the coroner's office by The Associated Press were unanswered. Chris Hardwick, owner of Hardwick Funeral Home of Loris, told the AP he was handling Brooks' funeral arrangements. Since opening its first store in Clearwater, Florida,...

You've probably heard of Hooters -- the restaurant chain known for attracting male customers by hiring waitresses who are well-endowed and dressed to show it.The firm now employs more than 30,000 people. Some would consider this a success story, but our government didn't. Not because Hooters is using sex to sell -- but because its waitresses are -- get ready -- women!"Discrimination!" cried the federal government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The business of Hooters is food, said the government, and "no physical trait unique to women is required to serve food." EEOC lawyers demanded Hooters produce all its hiring data,...

RANCHO BERNARDO – Developer Ron Bamberger doesn't deny stepping into a Hooters once or twice. Even though he didn't really like the food, that's not the reason he thinks it's a bad idea for the company to open a restaurant in the area. “We're in a high-end, award-winning master-planned community, and Hooters is not consistent with the culture,” he said. Bamberger is president of Boardwalk Development, which among other ventures manages the shopping center on Bernardo Center Drive that houses Vons and other stores. He said that for the good of the community where he does business, he's spearheading what...

WASHINGTON -- The Hooters restaurant chain is looking for FEMA's address. Company Chairman Bob Brooks said Thursday that he wants to reimburse the agency for the $200 bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne that was purchased with a government credit card issued to Hurricane Katrina victims. The champagne, purchased in San Antonio, was among numerous examples of improper spending of hurricane relief money cited earlier this week by Congress' Government Accountability Office. The bogus spending could be as high as $1.4 billion, the GAO said. In an announcement in Atlanta, Brooks said: "It bothers me as an American that resources that...

Life-saving breast examinations could soon be performed by a robotic hand that combines ultrasound with an artificial sense of touch. The robotic breast examiner was devised by researchers at Michigan State University in the US. They say it will enable a medical specialist to examine women from a remote location, perhaps even from the other side of the world. "Just because you’re located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or even Botswana, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a sophisticated diagnostic or therapeutic procedure," says Carol Slomski, a surgeon at Michigan State University, who helped design the system. The robot...

THE American Hooters chain will make a second attempt to crack the Australian market when it opens two of its restaurants in Sydney later this year. The restaurant and bar, better known for its skimpily dressed waitresses than its burgers, will open in Parramatta in July and Cronulla in December. There are also plans to expand to the Gold Coast and two other Sydney locations in 2007. While there are more than 400 locations world-wide, a previous attempt to open in Australia in 1997 was far from successful. The short-lived entity was located in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Five...

Yesterday, a co-worker came into my office, planted a document on my desk, leaned over and began explaining it to me. What she didn't realize was that by leaning over, her loose blouse fell open and Hootchie Mama, I saw some things that only her husband and her doctor were entitled to see.It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I couldn't look away. I stood up but then I could see even farther down to the tattoos on her stomach.What should I have done? Should I have said something?

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Hooters Airlines said it's stopping regularly scheduled air service. The airline said it will stop its public charter flights April 17 and will run only private charters out of Winston-Salem, N.C. President Mark Peterson said Hooters Air will serve large groups such as sports teams and tour groups. Peterson said some of the airline's 350 workers will be laid off in Winston-Salem. About five workers in Myrtle Beach are being laid off. Hooters started service between Myrtle Beach and Atlanta in 2003. It was serving 15 locations last July. But the airline began canceling holiday flights...

After a three-year run, Myrtle Beach's homegrown airline, Hooters Air, is bowing out of regularly scheduled air service. The airline will cease its public charter flights April 17 and will run only private charters out of Winston Salem, N.C. Bob Brooks, the airline's founder, and its president, Mark Peterson, said Hooters Air will serve large groups such as sports teams and tour groups, which was the original business model for Pace Airlines. Brooks acquired Pace in December 2002. The airline has approximately 350 employees in Winston-Salem. Peterson said some will be laid off. About five Myrtle Beach employees, including ground...

A lieutenant in the Greeneville Fire Department has been suspended without pay after he allegedly violated a work rule by taking photos of a female Hooters restaurant employee on city fire hall property. Lt. Frank Newton was suspended without pay for three consecutive shifts, after he allegedly took pictures, apparently in a fire department facility, of a waitress from a Hooters restaurant. Efforts to reach Newton this morning were not successful.

Hooters, the tongue-in-cheek eatery that parlayed spicy chicken wings and busty waitresses in skimpy outfits into an international restaurant chain, is opening its first ever casino and hotel a stone's throw from the Las Vegas Strip. The grand opening Thursday marks the latest foray for the "delightfully tacky, yet unrefined" restaurant that began in 1983 in Clearwater, Fla., and later branched into calendars, merchandise and even an airline. The 696-room property with nine restaurant/bars is a revamp of the Hotel San Remo and, despite its makeover, remains a midget compared with the 5,035-room MGM Grand across the street on a...

JOHNSON CITY - A former East Tennessee State University cheerleader contends that she was dismissed from the squad because of her job at a restaurant known for tight-fitting, scanty uniforms. "I'm 18. I should be able to work where I choose," ETSU freshman Kimberly Sams said of her job at Johnson City's Hooters Restaurant. "Maybe if it was a strip club or something like that, it would be different. If the basketball team can come in here and eat, then I should be able to work (at Hooters)." Sams, a Carter County resident who graduated with honors from Unaka High...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182660,00.html Please bless these overly revealing orange shorts, and all who wear them while serving me cheese fries. The head Catholic priest for the Greater Waco, Texas, area, Monsignor Isidore Rozycki, plans to bless a new Hooters restaurant in a private opening ceremony, "Blessings are part of the Catholic tradition," Rozycki, the pastor of St. Martin's Church in Tours, told the paper. "You bless the building so it will be a safe haven, so that the families that enter will be blessed, so the employees will be blessed as they support their families." The public can bask in the Hooters'...

The new Hooters restaurant may have gotten an unwelcome reception from some of the community's religious leaders, but tonight it will get a little help from above. As part of a private opening party, Monsignor Isidore Rozycki, the head Catholic priest for the Greater Waco area, plans to bless the chain's newest location at New Road and Interstate 35. The public won't be able to attend the event. But they can bask in the divine dedication starting Tuesday morning, when the restaurant officially opens. “Blessings are part of the Catholic tradition,” said Rozycki, who is pastor of St. Martin's Church...

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Which is to say that when you sign on to be a Hooters’ waitress you know full well what to expect. Most people would agree that even in that environment there are limits to what bosses can require. Sexual harassment used to refer solely to being asked or coerced to trade sex for employment or promotion. It has evolved into something quite a bit more ambiguous.

NEUNKIRCHEN, Germany — As ZZ Top’s song “Tush” blasted from the speakers, girls rushed to the center of the restaurant to hone their newly learned moves. “All right, are you ready to dance?” the American instructor shouted. The rookie waitresses standing among the empty tables instantly began clapping and dancing, bouncing up and down in their tight, orange shorts and low-cut, cleavage-revealing tank tops. The only thing missing from Germany’s new Hooters restaurant was an audience of customers ogling the routine as they throw back American burgers, wings and cold beer. That probably won’t be a problem this weekend, when...

In an era where perception can trump reality, public servants go to great lengths to maintain their image as the community's finest and bravest. Police, for example, are barred from wearing their uniforms to political rallies or other potentially controversial events off-duty. Firefighters can't buy alcohol while in official dress, even if it's just a six-pack on their way home. And emergency medical personnel aren't allowed to eat at places where alcohol is the main money-maker. For the most part, the rules are straightforward, born out of common sense. But every now and then, a situation comes along that causes...

The first Hooters Air flight took off for Florida at 7 a.m. Thursday and arrived on time. Its return to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, however, was delayed several hours by a security concern. Upon arrival at Orlando International Airport at 10 a.m., security officials detained a passenger who had made an “inappropriate” comment to another passenger, said Rod Johnson, spokesman for the Orlando airport. A Northeastern Pennsylvania radio station was doing a promotional broadcast from the plane, and in the background picked up the passenger’s comment, Hooters Air President Mark Peterson said.

ATLANTA -- It seemed like a joke when Hooters Air launched 21/2 years ago. "A restaurant getting into the airline business?" one traveler at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Kary LeBlanc, said at the time. To make matters worse, the defiantly tacky Atlanta-based restaurant chain -- best known for its "Hooters Girls," in snug tank tops and orange hot pants -- couldn't have picked a worse time to get into the business than the post-Sept. 11 travel slump. "I thought it was a gag, that it would never last," said New York-based airline industry consultant Robert Mann. Hooters Air has not only...

Just sent to hooters via email hooterspr@hooters.com Dear Hooters: I understand that a developer, Mr. Logan Clements, has started the process with the Weare, New Hampshire Selectmen to discuss taking the property on 34 Cilley Hill Road in order to build a theme hotel there. I have been talking about taking a vacation to New Hampshire for years and I would certainly be interested in staying in such an interesting and pertinent theme hotel as Mr. Clements proposes. I hope Hooters would give due consideration to his plan and consider opening a Hooters there, perhaps calling it Hooters at Souters....