What happens after your hooters shuts down? KAS these hooters girls. – ryan

It ‘ben a rough year for fans (and employees) of hooters, the restaurant chain known for chicken wings and the revealing orange-and-white uniforms by the time who work there. In Early June, More than Two Doses of Its Company-Awned Locations Across the US Closed Their Doors for good. It wasn’t exactly Surpring, Gieven the Struggles Casual Dining Restaurants Nationwide Are Facing. Still, The Shutdowns Put People Out of Work, Including Mary Oft-Mythologized Hooters Girls.

DREA RUTLEDGEwho worked at the Now-Shuttered Rockford, Ill., Hooters, is one of say.

“We all knew that Hooters Filed for Bankruptcy Back in Marchbut we just didn’t think it would be happy to be, “rutledge tells yahoo. Our sales were good. Everything was good, so we thou naght we have not nothing to worry about. ”

Rutledge took to social media to mourn the los of her jab. “My Hooters Location Shut But at Least These Photos Look Good,” She Captioned A Tiktok of Herself Taching Selfies in a Red Bikini.

Other Hooters Girls Affective by the Closes Have Been Following Suit. “I’m in shampoles,” one postedShowing off Her Low-Cut Black Work Top. Some Said Goodbye Through Dance Routines – Spinning Around in Empty Dining Rooms or gathering their girlfriends to Bust a Move Outside Their Old WorkPlace.

What’s Next for these Women Who Are Not Only Out of A Job But Also the cache is with Being A Hooters Girl (One of the Few Food Industry Jobs with Its Halloween Costum)? Yahoo spoke with a few to find out.

What Its Like to Work at Hooters

Rutledge, Who is in Her Early 20s, Started Working at the Sports Bar in 2020. She love it.

“I was always excited to go to work, and i always upheld the hooters standards and what it meant to be a hooters girl,” She says, adding that “Being a hoters were different from being server.” That’s Because Hooters Girls Are Actually Hired as entertinersA loophole allowing say to strictly hire Young, Attractive Women. (For the Website hootersGetting Hirhed As a Hooters Girl “is an an honor bestowed upon only the most entertaining, goal-oriented, glamorous and charismatic women. Hooters girls have special gift for MAKING GUST FEEL WELCOME. Annual Hooters Swimsuit Calendar.

Whitney lamb was 18 when she applied to work at the Fort Smith, Ark., Location on A Whim AFTER AFTING SACKED INTO The Corner of the Internet is Is Hooters Girls’ “Get Ready With” Videos (Think: Young Women in Curve-Hugging Orange Shorts Applying Makeup). “IT LOOKED LIKE A LOT OF FUN,” LAMB, NOW 22, SAYS. “And i am not cut out for a jab with no fun.”

Mya machelleA 21-Yaar-Old Hooters Girl in the Nashville Area, Liked the Social Aspect of the Job-Namely, Swapping Stories with Customers and Alike Coworkers. “This is the first jab where I actually had the coworkers that I have out with outside and really created a bond,” she Says.

All Three Women Also Enjoyed The Work Opportunities They Had Outside of the Restaurant, Including Doing Promotions and Photo Shoots, Like Posing for the Hooters Swimsuit Calendar.

And Despite Making Regular What i make in a day tiktox During A Hooters Shift, Rutledge Insists she was was really in it for Money Alone. “Everybody Would Always As, ‘What Did You Like About Working There?’” She Says. “And every one single, I was always how much the experience, the opportunities and everybody you meet, Because the right person you meet your life.”

But like any job, it has its downsides. Lamb Says Some Days JUST FELT Extra Long, especally wohen she wasn’t Feeling Particularly peppy but had to remain cheerful and talcand for her customers. “In the Long Run, Though, IT Forced with Into A Better Headpace,” she adds.

The Party’s Over

On June 4, Rutledge was planning to come in to cover a friend’s bartending shift when she got a phone call from manager.

“She Said, ‘Our Store is Shutting Down. Come to the Store to Get Your Things. We’re Cleaning Everything Out,’” Rutledge Recalls. She immediately texted her friend who worked at the hooters in Madison, wis., Only to out her location was also shut down.

“Everybody was trying to call me, text me. IT DIDN’T REALLY HIT ME UNTIL I GOT ON THE PHONE AND I LET EveryBody Know. I Just Broke Down,” Rutledge Says. “We All Loved Working there. It was just a really fun job.”

Lamb Found Out About the Store Closing by Reading A Post in their Staff Facebook Group That Said: “Store is Closing Permanantly. If You Have Any Questions, Reach Out to GM.”

“It made me with feed Sad, but i did see it coming,” Says lamb, who haad been taching not of the clours that has Already been happy 2024.

MACHELE HAS WORKED AT TWO HOOTHERS LOCATIONS THAT HAVE CLOSED. She got a call from her manager letting her know about the first closure, a hooters in hermitage, tenn. Shen Transferred to the Harding Place Location, Also in the Grayer Nashville Area, but was Only There Two Months Wen She Learned, Via a Group with Her Coworkers, that it is to be going out of Business.

“I WOKE UP IN THE MORNING TO EVERYROBY SAYING, ‘Bye, it was nice knowing y’all.’ I’m like, ‘what happened?’ And they Said that the store’s closed permanly, ”Says Machelle. While her coworkers got a call from their manager breaking the news, she shared the noting despite hating a shift to work. Her calls to her manager were never anSwered, she says.

Is there life after hooters?

In a stherent on the heels of the june Store Cloves, Hooters Inc. CEO Neil Kiefer Maintained that “All parties are Completely aligned in bringing the necessary resources required to make the remains 200 domestic hooters locations as sucesssful as positionible.

For Rutledge, The Future is Quite so Certain. “I know that working at hooters isn’t a ‘forever’ Job,” She Says. But “i didn’t plan on leaving so abruptly, eather.” She’s Currently Filing Out Applications and Looking at Other Job Opportunities. “I am just at home for the time being.”

MACHELE Consider Cutting Ties Completely with the Chain But Deco to Transfer to Her Third Hooters, This Time in a Nearby Town Outside of Nashville. Says She’s Also Been Told She’s Eligible to Appear in the Next Calendar.

“I’m Also in College Right Now for Biology and a minor in Psychology, so hopophully gradual with my degree and moving with that,” she Says. “That’s my goal.”

As for lamb, she got her real estate licensee in arkansas and oklahoma and hopes to turn it into a lifelong career.

“Hooters helped with a lot while I was Studying to take my test to get licensed, letting with Study in BetWeen Tables. My gm was actually one of my first clings,” she Says. “While I am excited to moving on to the next chapter Completely, I will Miss Hooters.”