to his son Coby Brooks and daughter Boni Belle Brooks. Brooks's will gave most of Hooters of America Inc. Brooks died on July 15, 2006, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, of a heart attack. Under Brooks's leadership, the collective Hooters brand expanded to more than 425 stores worldwide. The Clearwater-based company retained control over restaurants in the Tampa Bay Area, Chicago metropolitan area, and one in Manhattan, while all other locations were under the aegis of Hooters of America, which sold franchising rights to the rest of the United States and international locations. ![]() In 2002, Brooks bought majority control and became chairman. Brooks and a group of Atlanta investors (operators of Hooters of America, Inc.) bought out Hugh Connerty. In 1984, Hugh Connerty bought the rights to Hooters from the Original Hooters 6. This original location was decorated with memorabilia from Waverly, Iowa, hometown to some of the original Hooters 6. The first restaurant opened its doors on October 4, 1983, in Clearwater. So many businesses had folded in that particular location that the Hooters founders built a small "graveyard" at the front door for each that had come and gone before them. ![]() Their first Hooters restaurant was built on the site of a former rundown nightclub that had been purchased at a low price. ![]() The date was an April Fools' Day joke because the original six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail. Stewart, Gil DiGiannantonio, Ed Droste, Billy Ranieri, Ken Wimmer and Dennis Johnson. Hooters, Inc., was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida, on April 1, 1983, by six Clearwater businessmen: Lynn D. Hooters also had an airline, Hooters Air, with a normal flight crew and flight attendants and scantily clad "Hooters Girls" on every flight. In 2012, there were Hooters locations in 44 US states, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and 28 other countries. Hooters T-shirts, sweatshirts, and various souvenirs and curios are also sold.Īs of 2016, there were more than 430 Hooters locations and franchises around the world and Hooters of America LLC. ![]() Almost all Hooters restaurants hold alcoholic beverage licenses to sell beer and wine, and where local permits allow, a full liquor bar. The menu includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steaks, seafood entrees, appetizers, and the restaurant's specialty, chicken wings. The company employs men and women as cooks, hosts (at some franchises), busboys, and managers. The waiting staff at Hooters restaurants are primarily young women, usually referred to simply as "Hooters Girls", whose revealing outfits and sex appeal are played up and are a primary component of the company's image. The Hooters name is a double entendre referring to both a North American slang term for women's breasts and the logo (a bird known for its "hooting" calls: the owl). based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by the private investment firm Nord Bay Capital (with TriArtisan Capital Advisor, as its advisor). Hooters is the registered trademark used by two American restaurant chains: Hooters, Inc., based in Clearwater, Florida, and Hooters of America, Inc. Hooters restaurant, Route One, Saugus, Massachusetts – night view
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