BANGKOK, Thailand — Hooters, the US-based restaurant chain recognized for rooster wings and “Hooters Ladies” skimpy wait-staff outfits, has filed for chapter safety.
HOA Restaurant Group filed the movement for Chapter 11 safety Monday within the North Texas Chapter Courtroom in Dallas.
The corporate bumped into monetary woes as its money owed mounted, nevertheless it says it intends to remain open and resolve its troubles inside months.
A bunch of the corporate’s unique founders that personal nearly a 3rd of Hooters’ U.S. places, together with about half of its greatest quantity eating places, plans to purchase and function extra of the shops, Hooters stated in a information launch.
“Our famend Hooters eating places are right here to remain and we’re taking motion to strengthen our enterprise to raised serve our valued prospects over the long run,” the corporate stated in a discover on its web site.
Hooters, primarily based in Atlanta, Georgia, was based in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983. Bother had been brewing for some time.
Hooters had sponsored the No. 9 NASCAR automotive pushed by Chase Elliott since 2017, however final yr, Hendrick Motorsports ended its ties to the longtime sponsor as a result of it was not assembly its monetary commitments.
Its enterprise technique has confronted challenges through the years, together with lawsuits over its hiring of solely “Hooters Ladies” to serve prospects.
Final yr it agreed to pay $250,000 and supply different aid to settle a race and shade discrimination lawsuit introduced by the U.S. Equal Employment Alternative Fee towards a Hooters outlet in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 2022, the restaurant refuted claims it was shutting down and rebranding as a consequence of altering buyer tastes.
In 2019, the Hooters hotel-casino off the Las Vegas Strip was offered to an Indian lodge firm and rebranded because the OYO Lodge and On line casino.
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In 2017, the corporate tried opening a restaurant that didn’t function wait-staff in tight tops, as a check of a special strategy to its unique idea.
