• 10 Feb 2010 at 11:37 AM

Hooters For Sale, Those Morally Opposed To Food Eating Contests Need Not Apply

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Picture 126.pngGreat news for those of you who love delicious wings served in tank-tops: Hooters is on the block. The restaurant needs cash, ASAP, and analysts are guesstimating it could probably be yours for about $250 million. There may be a few issues for you to deal with upon acquiring the place, namely getting rid of this guy (though hopefully not food eating contests on a voluntary basis in general, as there’s no need to punish everyone):

If an upcoming episode of the CBS reality show “Undercover Boss” is any indication, there may be management issues, too. In an episode slated to run Sunday, CEO Coby Brooks discovers a restaurant supervisor staging an eating contest for female employees, forcing them to bury their faces in platefuls of food without using their hands.

“Ladies, if you want to leave early today, you’re going to play my reindeer game,” the manager says, howling “Hoooo, doggie!” as the women eat.

Also, if you think you want a piece of this, you’d better act fast. The company is said to be in advanced talks with a Connecticut-based investor.

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM

    are we sure that the investor isn’t biff?

  2. 2
    Posted by Chipper Jones | February 10, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    I’m out

  3. 3
    Posted by NakedShort | February 10, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    I wish I could say this is an outlier, but I’d be lying sounds like a porn flick

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM

    @1 come on. you know who it is (hint: not biff).

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    I saw a clip of that retarded show. The manger should be fired.
    I mean making his hot wait staff eat?
    He was destroying the product.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM

    Has to be Catterton Partners. Breast Men.
    SAC

  7. 7
    Posted by mrpink | February 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM

    there’s a new job for ping jiang!

  8. 8
    Posted by volatilitysmile | February 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    If Bawney takes over, there will be Fire Island Power Thursdays…

  9. 9
    Posted by Anal_yst | February 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    PTJ is all over this, gotta be

  10. 10
    Posted by mrpink | February 10, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    God Bless the Ice Palace on FI… All we need now is Hooters and Chippendale’s. Put B. Frank in the ocean.

  11. 11
    Posted by volatilitysmile | February 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    Amen to that, mrpink.

  12. 12
    Posted by wcburrs87 | February 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM

    Dig in at Chew-ters!
    Snickers Ad Manager

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM

    Vince McMahon? Hooters girls would make great “volunteers” for the Mrs’s Senate run

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:17 PM

    feelin all sensy & tungry at the same time now all a-sudden.

  15. 15
    Posted by Investorcluzo | February 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM

    what kind of d-bag does that in front of cameras? it’s not like it was an undercover thing. clearly letting the “power” of his job go to his head…who else does that (capital _ _ _ _)?

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    It’s every male oil traders dream to own Hooters or own a place like it. It’s every female oil trader’s dream to have $24,000 of plastic surgery and own a sailboat on Clear Lake with a Sugar Daddy royalty owner. At least it used to be.

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    16 fucking won this handily

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    @12, BRILLIANT. Although nothing tops Snaxi

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM

    how much to buy just the girls?

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 12:52 PM

    the avid bird enthusiast is liquidating the gold fund to buy it. ROI=cancellation of SI subscription – thats gold jerry, pure gold

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    @16 so you’e saying it’s Andy Hall?

  22. 22
    Posted by Chris | February 10, 2010 at 2:24 PM

    well … I think that this could be the BARGAIN of the century
    I think that CNBC BEAUTIES might be in the running …
    ok … I’ll stop … no spammy link this time

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    @16, I was with you until you said Clear Lake. Sub in RO.

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | February 10, 2010 at 6:40 PM

    As long as they keep Dickie V as spokesman.

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