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Prophet wrote:
A friend of mine works at hooters and when me and a couple buddies of mine went to visit her some kid was having his birthday there. He was probably 12 or so. The girls made him a little get up and got around him, sang him a birthday song and then he got his picture taken with them all surrounding him. He might have gotten a little smooch as well...can't recall.
Anyways, that kid probably had the best birthday EVER. Who says Hooters isnt a family place?
Some of us object for various reasons to dining at Hooterswith our family/friends.
My personal objection is that not only are the waitstaff (which only coincidentally happen to be all women) paid less than minimum wage [
a complaint I have about every restaurant] but that the waitstaff seem to feel (corporate pressure, peer pressure, personal pressure) that it is necessary to feign some level of sexuality in order to entice tips from their patrons. To me that is more demeaning that asking someone to work for less than minimum wage based on the false promise that the customer will make up at least the difference, if not more, in earnings.
I would rather pay more at a restaurant where the staff across the board was paid minumum wage, rather than patronize an establishment where the waitstaff, who are paid far below minimum, are also forced to share their tip income with staff who are already receiving minimum wage. For that reason, I will not ask my friends to patronize a place where the person at the lowest wage level is in the position of "selling their body" as well.
Your reasons for patronizing or not patronizing Hooters may be different, and I am not here to force my ideas or values on you. The "core" group in Richmond who arrange and attend the monthly OC dinners seem to have reasons for not holding the dinner at Hooters which may or may not be in sync with my thoughts, but the consensus is we would rather go somewhere else to eat.
If anyone from Richmond, or anywhere else, wants to organize an OC dinner at Hooters, then they need to step up to the plate and say so, then do the work necessary to bring it off. Just don't look for me to support the idea or to attend.
stay safe.
skidmark
*fixed typo
