Hooters information for chapter however says it is “right here to remain”

Hooters, the U.S.-based restaurant chain recognized for hen wings and “Hooters Ladies” skimpy wait-staff outfits, has filed for chapter safety.

HOA Restaurant Group filed the movement for Chapter 11 safety Monday within the North Texas Chapter Court docket in Dallas.

The corporate bumped into monetary woes as its money owed mounted, however says it intends to remain open and resolve its troubles inside months. A gaggle of the corporate’s authentic founders that personal nearly a 3rd of Hooters’ U.S. places, together with about half of its largest quantity eating places, plans to purchase and function extra of the retailers, Hooters stated in a information launch.

“Hooters is right here to remain, and with a stronger monetary basis and streamlined operations on the opposite aspect of this course of, we shall be well-positioned to proceed delivering the guest-obsessed hospitality expertise and scrumptious meals our valued prospects and communities have come to anticipate nicely into the longer term,” the corporate stated in a discover on its web site. 

Hooters, primarily based in Atlanta, was based in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983.

Bother had been brewing for some time.

Hooters had sponsored the No. 9 NASCAR automobile pushed by Chase Elliott since 2017 however final yr, Hendrick Motorsports ended its ties with the longtime sponsor as a result of it wasn’t assembly its monetary commitments.

Its enterprise technique has confronted challenges over time, together with lawsuits over its hiring of solely “Hooters Ladies” to serve prospects.

Final yr, it agreed to pay $250,000 and supply different aid to settle a race and shade discrimination lawsuit introduced by the U.S. Equal Employment Alternative Fee in opposition to a Hooters outlet in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In 2022, the restaurant refuted claims it was shutting down and rebranding as a result of altering buyer tastes.

In 2019, the Hooters hotel-casino off the Las Vegas Strip was bought to an Indian lodge firm and rebranded because the OYO Resort and On line casino.

In 2017, the corporate tried opening a restaurant that did not characteristic wait-staff in tight tops, as a check of a unique strategy to its authentic idea.