Hooters, known for skimpy server outfits, files for bankruptcy protection
Hooters, the chain of restaurants based in the United States, known for chicken wings and Wait-Staff waiting clothes for its “Hooters Girls”, asked for protection in case of bankruptcy.
Hoa Restaurant Group presented the motion for the protection of chapter 11 on Monday in the bankruptcy court of northern Texas in Dallas.
The company came across financial troubles while its debts were mounted, but says that she intends to remain open and solve its problems in a few months. A group of original founders of the company that owns almost a third of the American offices of Hooters, including about half of its most volume restaurants, plans to buy and manage more stores, said Hooters in a press release.
“Our famous Hooters restaurants are here to stay and we are taking measures to strengthen our business to better serve our precious long -term customers,” said the company in a notice on its website.
Hooters, based in Atlanta, was founded in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983. The trouble had been prepared for a while.
Hooters had sponsored the car n. 9 NASCAR led by Chase Elliott since 2017, but last year Handrick Motorsports concluded his bonds with the long -standing sponsor because he was not respecting his financial commitments.
His corporate strategy has faced challenges over the years, including legal actions for taking only “Hooters Girls”, a staff of the whole female dressed with tank tank tops and shorts.
Last year, he agreed to pay $ 250,000 in the United States and to provide other relief to resolve a cause of discrimination of race and color intended by the commission for equal work opportunities in the United States against an outlet hooters in Greensboro, NC, after employees have accused the position of not being able to remember black employees after a layoff movid.
In 2022, the restaurant refuted the statements he was closing and renowned due to the change of customers’ tastes.
In 2019, the Hooters Hotel-Casino off the Las Vegas strip were sold to an Indian hotel company and renamed as Oyo Hotel and Casino.
In 2017, the company tried to open a restaurant that did not present a waitress in narrow peaks, as proof of a different approach to its original concept.
