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Oregonguy
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02-12-2006

Monday, February 15, 2010 - 4:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oregonguy a private message Print Post    
somewhere above someone said that it was dehumanizing to refer to the girls as the "brand". if the girls aren't the brand of hooters than what is??

to play devils advocate to the demeaning part, i'd bet that there are a certain % that think there hot and it's a good way to make good money thru tips and another % that might be on the bubble about there looks and if they become a hooters girl that in their minds it means there good looking and might benefit there self esteem issues.

we used to never have a hooters in oregon then 3 opened up over the last few years. 2 of them opened across the street from strip clubs. guess which 2 are no longer in business?? LOL

i remember the 1st time i at one. me and a buddy were in texas years ago for a week and he immediaely saw the billboards for it and wanted to eat there and i was having none of it. i had such a predetermined negativity about the place thati didnt want to go. i thought it would be kind of sleazy, the girls would be lazy and just trying to hustle a big tip and i would be paying too much for bad food. so i finally gave in and went to 1 by six flags over texas and was surprised. the place didnt have a sleazy feel to it, the place was packed at lunchtime and the waitresses were busting their butts. the food was average but they werent overcharging for it, so that was ok. so for what i was expecting going in, it definitely changed my opinion for the better.

i dont know why he would think it would be a family restaurant, it will never be that. these need to be in cities/states that have large pro/college local games that they can watch on there bigscreens. the more sport night stuff they could promote the better in my opinion.

how that jimbo guy could still be employed is unbeleivable. the chili eating "game" was so offensive.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, February 15, 2010 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I love Hooters' wings. My girlfriends and I have no problem with going to eat at Hooters. It is probably one of the few "corporate" chains where I will eat. We also get very good service at Hooters. The girls don't treat us any different than they do a table full of men.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, February 15, 2010 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Here's my funny Hooters story. When our son was around 1 and we had just moved back to Houston, we were craving chicken fried steak. We had driven past Hooters, but didn't know the place. We saw they had alot of grease smoke coming out of it and figured it might be a good place for chicken fried steak. LOL
we go in and realize that it's really more of a bar and here we are with our baby, but decided to go ahead and check it out. the waitress comes over, at that time they had all sorts of buttons on their shirts, and our son reaches out to grab one on her breast and says 'pretty'. she laughs and says "he's the only male allowed to do that".
no chicken fried steak but did have good wings.
but haven't ever been back. we prefer Buffalo Wild Wings (and it is a family place)

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Monday, February 15, 2010 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
I thought the son/ceo was out of touch, and it did seem pretty staged - I wondered how many takes they had to have with him... he just didnt have a very enthusiastic personality - and I was surprised about the woman boss - it seemed like she did get demoted, but with a fancy spin to it?

Hooters around here tried to do the PR with the hockey teams fundraisers, etc... to get their sign up they had to use a different color of orange (so as not to stand out) They didnt last a year tho, (Closed)

when the boys went on spring break to FL to visit my parents - they went to Hooters - its right there on the beach, and my mom loves their crab legs! (an early bird special!)

my sil worked for them in IN across from a theatre - some "big name" stars would pop in and order the most expensive item (a fancy champagne + ??) she was known to get $200 tips! (and she is not well endowed - XS is her size!) but she quit when the boss started acting all superior and getting in their faces - she said there was a high turnover of waitresses - I can imagine!

The 7-11 CEO and the coffee lady (via skype from her 7/11 ) were on Oprah -

Redpen
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07-24-2003

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Redpen a private message Print Post    
I think the premise of this show is that good ole paternalistic bosses are cool. Well, at Hooters, 7-11, and most retail chains, the bottom line dictates they get the most production they can from employees, while paying the lowest wages they can get by with. This is why so many retail workers have full-time jobs and get food stamps.

I watched the first episode and that Waste Management CEO did seem good. But I wonder who picked the employees he interacted with?

Never been to a Hooters, never will. There are lots of places to buy wings in this country. The Hooters casino-hotel here in Vegas is a joke, and it's bankrupt now. As for the manager letting his daughters work there, that's a joke. They'll never have to. They have money.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I wonder if they will mention the massive layoffs that have happened steadily at the corporate headquarters of 7-Eleven.

I don't like wings so it is a non-issue for me.

Maybe the woman manager realized after her vacation that she wanted to spend more time with her family. Restaurants are hard on family life, especially ones that's business booms starting with happy hour.

Freetimefinally
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01-26-2006

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Freetimefinally a private message Print Post    
I really believe the Hooters thing was staged. Honestly what manager being taped would treat women in a line up as they were. This could rate on sexual harrasment by management in many court cases and these girls now have it on tape to prove what they are exposed to. If they Manger did see someone not up to par then they could be pulled aside and talked to. I know many professions do require a high sandard of Beauty/sexualaty like cheerleaders, rocketts and such but I do believe they are not told what is expected and graded by an oveweight sexist pig. And then his reindeer games. Many did speak up that they did not like what was going on so no judge could ever say they didn't speak up so the manager had to think it was alright to do.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 11:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
Not a good or enjoyable ep. I will give it one more try for the 7-11 ep.

I think it is ridiculous that the president of Hooters would want his daughters to work there. I would hope he would want more for them than them being looked at as just sex objects.

Bombaycat
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07-21-2007

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bombaycat a private message Print Post    
Gee, all these years I thought people went to Hooters for the great food and owl motif. LOL

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
roflol Bombaycat! (and dh is part of Scouts, his patrol is the Owls... I think they may have gone there for the owl motif!! )

dh mentioned that Waste Management also had "issues" (and he's not here for me to ask specifics, was it a bankruptcy, was it a legal case due to environmental issues? I do know our town dropped them recently and went with another ocmpany... i know a lot of good my memory does!)

its just that the company's "image problems" may be the source for the show - and ITA some of this is staged - how do they pick the employees!!

and ITA the low wages, cutting corners - there are a lot of problems our country is facing with trying (as consumers) to get the best bargains... which of course way too simple of an "answer" for this huge problem!

Dawn
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07-24-2009

Friday, February 19, 2010 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dawn a private message Print Post    
i think the female manager got smart and took the vacation and ran! i don't think she got demoted, i think she just realized she probably didn't enjoy that job as much as she could something else. any type of management like that... retail...restaurant... it's tough and completely draining.

i think the CEO giving her that type of vacation totally backfired on him. he wanted to do it so that he would keep a long term good employee and in the end, she left.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Friday, February 19, 2010 - 12:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Or perhaps they offered her another position that was less intense - because didn't they say she took another position with the company?

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, February 19, 2010 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I thought they said she took another position in the company. I don't remember hearing that she left the company.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, February 19, 2010 - 1:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I thought it said she took another position with in the company too.

Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003

Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 9:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beth4freedom a private message Print Post    
Okay, the 7/11 episode tonight was a definite improvement over last week's Hooters, thank goodness. We're back to looking at exceptionally good employees who have a zest for their work, and interesting aspects--like the guy who does art work on the side, and the immigrant who loves America, land of opportunity.

The food being thrown away made me sick; I hope that got remedied, not just in that store, but any others.

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
I agree tonight's show was right up there with the first show. He found some great employees.

I like what he is doing for the employees too.

Panda
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07-15-2005

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 5:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
last night's show was the first one I saw (and I only watched about 40 min of it) and what I liked about it is seeing all the behind the scene things, I never thought about how those donuts got made!
Also it made me want to drive to 7-11 and get me some coffee! I wonder if that 7-11 in Long Island will get even more customers after last night with people just wanting to meet Delores.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 6:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I really like what he did for the employees! What happened with the woman manager whose store wasn't being service by corpoorate properly?

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
The funny thing is I remember when they had the big rally where they watched the show in the lobby of our building...but of course that was a while back and we didn't know what was happening - only that 7-Eleven was having an employee meeting.

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
Yes, much better than Hooters. Maybe Hooters doesn't attract interesting hard working types.

Am I just a reality show cynic but does anyone think these CEO's really stay at those hotels, I don't. I bet it's all staged.

Did I miss them telling us where Mr. I love America went on his trip with his wife?

Throwing that food out made me crazy!!!!

If 7-11 wanted to improve their image, it did for me. I rarely go into 7-11. For some reason I had a bad corporate image about the company, for no real reason that I can think of. But I'll probably go into one, now.

I certainly hope the maintenance situation gets fixed. If waiting a month for lights to be changed is the standards then something is wrong.

I'd like to see more of the CEO's meeting with his point people. I wonder what they actually think about the under cover idea.

The previews for White Castle looks promising.

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 9:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
That was the big question at our home - where was the manager of the 7-11 store with the maintenance issues? Maybe the manager wasn't available for the big reveal/company meeting? And there seemed to be other folks in that front line - maybe they were filmed but their stories ended up on the cutting room floor?


Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
If you ask me they also have an inventory problem if they are throwing out that much food. Shows they are ordering way too much for the market area.

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 10:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gidget a private message Print Post    
I lost it when he gave the immigrant guy his own franchise! Now that is an American Dream fairy tale come true.

And this CEO is really smart about recognizing good people like the kid that was working the graveyard shift. He said something about working his way thru school himself so it seems he was not a super entitled legacy like so many CEOs.


Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Saw it for the first time last night and LOVED it! Those employees were such good-hearted characters, and that CEO/boss is a dream. Maybe I should send him my resumé! LOL.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Yes, I think West Point is definitely not a walk in the park...

they have laid off numerous people in the last two years. Don't think that it would be an opportune time to send the resume. But the employees who are still here seem to be a happy bunch, and they are definitely casual dress. We look overdressed in the elevator compared to them.