Today, we celebrate the 30th birthday of a national treasure, a beacon of light amid the ever-darkening times, a place to rest your weary bones and eat chicken wings, a place with boobs: Hooters. The first Hooters opened in Clearwater, Fla. Thus was born the Hooters Girl. Tonight, Hooters is hosting a nation-wide Hooters Girl Reunion to celebrate. In a video on their site , one Hooters Girl gushes, "Working at the store is awesome. It's like being a rock star in my own little town.
Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Hooters Waitress - What's It Like To Be A Hooters Girl
When it comes to being a working girl, times can be tough. The nine-to-five life can be gruelling, exhausting, and frustrating at times especially when our gender continues to be undercut in the boardroom and on our paycheques. Between all the rules — like not being able to wear open-toed footwear in the office — the restrictions and, essentially, the lack of freedom throughout the work week, it's no wonder many women can't wait to hit up happy hour and shed their brasseirs ASAP once they walk through their door. Just like many companies with a set of regulations their staff must abide by, Hooters is no exception.
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Hooters Waitress
It doesn't matter that she's a doctor, a loving girlfriend to his best friend, or eventually becomes a great stepmom. The joke is that, while putting herself through medical school, she worked as a waitress at a restaurant that requires its employees to dress in orange booty shorts. In Sonny's mind, Corinne sold her body with a side of fries, and that will be her defining characteristic no matter what else she does. And at the end of the film, when Sonny sees his cheating ex-girlfriend is now a Hooters waitress, it's supposed to feel like justice.
What everyone else thinks of Hooters girls versus what it's actually like to be a Hooters girl are two very different things. Some people really do come to Hooters for the food , but mainly because it's cheap. Being in a place like Hooters makes people feel like they can let their guard down and ask us whatever they want. In Hooters, it was a very common question and made sense as to why they'd want to know because it's not your usual waitressing job. My answer was always, "It's good money.