A resident of The Villages, Florida expressed to Villages-News.com a level of apprehension over the fate of the still-inchoate Hooters location in the vast retirement community after the wings-and-boobs-themed chain’s corporate owner announced Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
“I know that in my community there are at least 10 individuals who will be most disappointed if Hooters is unable to open due to financial difficulties,” the Village of Dabney resident Chuck Quincy said, his overly formal language coming across as a somewhat forced means of avoiding saying he’s looking forward to checking out the tits on the 19 year-old waitresses there and possibly buying them expensive shit in the hopes that they’ll engage in minor acts of prostitution while seated in his golf cart behind the establishment. “All were looking forward to the grand opening,” Quincy added.
Villages-News reports that Quincy and the at least 10 other individuals should fear not given that construction on the new Hooters continued briskly this week and that it’s the brand itself in dire straits, not the franchisee that manages it. “Hooters Inc” is solvent, owns half of the top 30 performing locations, and the restructuring plan specifically calls for such owner-operators to take the helm of the troubled brand. Put together it means the future’s looking Hooterful in the Villages.