Hooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida.

Hooters is a restaurant with a waitstaff primarily made up of attractive waitresses, though the company also employs other males/females as cooks, hosts (at some franchises), busboys, and managers. The sex appeal of the waitresses is a primary part of the company's image^[1]. The menu includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steaks, seafood entrees, appetizers, and the restaurant's specialty, chicken wings. Almost all Hooters hold alcoholic beverage licenses to sell beer and wine, and, where local permits allow, a full liquor bar. Other offerings for sale include Hooters T-shirts, sweatshirts, and various souvenirs and curios.

Between company owned locations and franchises, there are now more than 435 Hooters throughout the United States. The company has restaurants in 44 U.S. states, the US Virgin Islands, and Guam. In addition, Hooters operates restaurants in 24 other countries.^[2] The company's first overseas location was in Singapore, and other Hooters restaurants are now located in Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom (only in Nottingham), and in Venezuela.

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