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In the discussion thread: Hooters owner files for bankruptcy ( 'just standard stuff') [View all]

Mon Nov 26, 2012, 07:28 PM

DaveJ (4,930 posts)

13. Hopefully people are gravitating to local restaurants

I have no happy memories of eating at any big chain. I can't stand how every town across the country looks exactly the same.

Local establishments are great, OTOH.

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46 replies	Author	Time	Post
Hooters owner files for bankruptcy ( 'just standard stuff') [View all]	underpants	Nov 2012	OP
Tilted Kilt is killing them	slackmaster	Nov 2012	#1
It's got to be the bagpipes and haggis that wins 'em over, eh?	CincyDem	Nov 2012	#2
The real boobs around there	Jackpine Radical	Nov 2012	#3
He owns nine Hooters	underpants	Nov 2012	#5
Or among, for that matter.	Jackpine Radical	Nov 2012	#11
There must be a franchise on Mars.	Scootaloo	Nov 2012	#15
+3	JustABozoOnThisBus	Nov 2012	#24
I've just got to stick this here...	Fozzledick	Nov 2012	#25
Oh no not Hooters! Now we need the Tea Baggers to protest.	Lint Head	Nov 2012	#4
They shut down the local Hooter's near me.	Panasonic	Nov 2012	#6
Hooters was fun when I was 18 and stupid. They have a simple policy	Suji to Seoul	Nov 2012	#23
When I was younger it was...titilating...	Atypical Liberal	Nov 2012	#36
I was there awhile ago and the food was pretty good	TrogL	Nov 2012	#46
so uh...i guess they went bust	nashville_brook	Nov 2012	#7
Tits up	Jackpine Radical	Nov 2012	#12
He's really strapped.	Coyotl	Nov 2012	#14
Business started to droop.	mac56	Nov 2012	#33
It was inevitable	Coyotl	Nov 2012	#35
Lots of these restaurants are hanging by a thread (if you'll pardon the expression)	rocktivity	Nov 2012	#8
The funny thing is we did go to a chain restaurant last night - driving nearly 30 miles to do that.	Panasonic	Nov 2012	#10
Just tell me what part	leftynyc	Nov 2012	#37
Any part. Lower Manhattan is fine up to Times Square.	Panasonic	Nov 2012	#38
I guess people aren't willing to pay a lot for bad wings anymore nt	NoGOPZone	Nov 2012	#9
hey hey hey	underpants	Nov 2012	#18
Hopefully people are gravitating to local restaurants	DaveJ	Nov 2012	#13
"I can't stand how every town across the country looks exactly the same."	KansDem	Nov 2012	#31
Ate there one time. Over-priced, shitty food.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#16
cheating your creditors. standard american business ethics nt	msongs	Nov 2012	#17
I went to a Hooters once on a New Year's Eve 2010 .....	Botany	Nov 2012	#19
I thought they were too big to fail......	grahamhgreen	Nov 2012	#20
no, no, no..."theirs" were too big to fail.	Ken Burch	Nov 2012	#27
Bankruptcys are stealing from all of us!!!	Disconnect	Nov 2012	#21
Welcome to DU.	surrealAmerican	Nov 2012	#22
Not if the business is insolvent.	closeupready	Nov 2012	#32
The owner owes millions on expensive homes and back taxes.	ronnie624	Nov 2012	#40
And if you are the bankruptcy judge presiding over this case,	closeupready	Nov 2012	#41
But my opinion is right.	ronnie624	Nov 2012	#42
I disagree. I don't think you are right.	closeupready	Nov 2012	#43
I didn't dismiss your opinion, I disagreed with it.	ronnie624	Nov 2012	#44
couldn't keep abreast of the business, could they?	Ken Burch	Nov 2012	#26
Sales began to sag.	mac56	Nov 2012	#34
THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS-Henrico County, VA Went Blue	fightthegoodfightnow	Nov 2012	#28
Sounds like they were a little shorts.	bluedigger	Nov 2012	#29
So a guy who owns 9 Hooters restaurants is representative of the whole chain	thelordofhell	Nov 2012	#30
They aren't blaming Obamacare?	pstokely	Nov 2012	#39
bilking creditors, when you are a large corporation....just standard stuff	Supersedeas	Nov 2012	#45

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