• TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    321·
    10 hours ago

    Nothing like getting mediocre food served by a waitress who hates her job and regrets the life choices that led her to it.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      The good news is that some of them don’t hate their jobs, and appreciate the money and high tips without having to ride a pole.

      Granted, it’s perspective in contrast to diner wait staff (a high-suicide job) and professional stripping (a high-turnover job) so still not great.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      But the band of buxom beauties, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, isn’t employed by Hooters. In fact, they were only wearing the brand’s titillating togs as a group Halloween costume.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      9 hours ago

      They’ve got a huge business opportunity there. Every branch should be different! They could have one with plus-sized waitresses, one with waiters instead, one with whips and leather, one with mature waitresses, all in the same town.

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      12 hours ago

      That was brilliant. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

      It reminded me I f my own faithful trip to hooters with a friend and his father.

      I don’t think I know what was going on there, but I did feel like it was super awkward because they were talking about the waitress like she wasn’t there.

      I mostly remember the wings we had were not very good.

      Wings should not be battered with cornmeal. Though I don’t eat that much meat anymore.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
    47·
    18 hours ago

    a little scenery, if you catch my drift

    You’re leaving a review for Hooters; there’s really no need for subtlety.

    • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      12 hours ago

      I honestly think that a large part of their appeal is that you can pretend to be subtle

  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1011·
    20 hours ago

    Launching my new food delivery service tomorrow called Tots™ we only deliver tater-tots but every driver is stacked and scantily clad 😎

  • HorreC@lemmy.world
    361·
    19 hours ago

    odd, who would have known that just being honest with your partner would be the best for you and them.

    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
      10·
      13 hours ago

      I don’t know what to think about this.

      While I don’t intend to visit hooter, strip clubs or anything alike and I think people can be creeps even if they are acting completely within the consent of others.

      But how is a man who wants to go to hooters a creep but a man who wants to consumes porn not? The exploitation of women in porn is arguably worse because while they consent to the recording (i mean if not… I don’t need to continue my point) oftentimes they sell all their rights and lose all control over the recording. Consequently there is no backing out if they no longer want to be seen like that. (Of course, there are other issues) If you work for hooters, you know wtf is going on before you were hired and if you quit, you are not longer exposed.

      So what is creepy about hooters but not about porn?

      Is it the simple fact that the man seeks out some kind of sexualized interact with the woman?

      • ch00f@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 hours ago

        The power dynamic between the porn actress and customer is different than between restaurant server and patron. The porn is filmed in a controlled environment, and even the live streams can be quit at any time. At a restaurant, the women are operating in a live environment, and their income is dependent on the patrons’ whims. The rules are fuzzy and you don’t know if your patron is going to understand the difference between friendly flirting and sexual attraction.

        I got dragged to a strip club for a friend’s birthday. They were especially gross at the time in WA because you couldn’t drink at them. We were already drunk enough though.

        Anyway, got a lap dance for $20. The first 30 seconds were the stripper explaining to me what I’m allowed to do. I.e. apparently you can rub your face on her boobs, but hands stay put. I’m sure if I broke that rule, a bouncer would beat the shit out of me. To maintain the “family friendly atmosphere,” restaurants like Hooters operate more on nuance that some patrons (like the person this post is about) may not understand.

        • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Yes there is a difference.

          A customer of porn could share that porn long after that actress quit the industry and has publicly expressed regret.

          A customer of hooters can’t force the server to continue to be sexualized at hooters.

          But let’s focus on your example,

          A customer could break rules at hooters, therefore consume porn and don’t go to hooters?

          • ch00f@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 hours ago

            A customer of hooters can’t force the server to continue to be sexualized

            Ask a victim of sexual assault how they feel about that statement.

            And the point is if your goal of going to hooters is to bend the rules as far as you can, just get your fix some other way.

            Edit: also, it’s a little belittling to assume that working in porn is a regrettable career.

      • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        So what is creepy about hooters but not about porn?

        In general the difference is the in person interaction. While porn does have some direction interaction it is remote and there is far less direct control by the consumer.

        • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          11 hours ago

          So it is less creepy to engage with porn than hooters while porn is arguably far more exploitative and dehumanising than hooters because the creep is interacting with the woman?

          I really don’t know if I agree there and again, I think very poorly of hooters and their customers, I am not defending it.

          • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 hours ago

            Being exploitative and dehumanizing isn’t the same kind of thing as being creepy, although they can be intertwined.

            • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              10 hours ago

              I guess my question would be creepy in perception or creepy in behavior?

              Perception? sure, fine. Behavior? I think sexually dehumanising behavior would be what we would call creepy.

              But I think a call to action (what the original comment was) to not be perceived as a creep… idk.

              • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                ch00f’s reply to you gives a better explanation than I had typed up, but exactly what I’m describing.

                • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
                  1·
                  10 hours ago

                  Thanks, I enjoyed explore the topic with you. Ch00f is doing a good job that expressing their thoughts. I am not convinced but I respect their effort and skill.

      • Aeri@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Any upstanding pervert can come up with a strip club but it takes a special kind of repressed creepiness to come up with Hooters if you ask me.

        • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          11 hours ago

          I would agree with you on that notion, while i think strip clubs are weird as fuck, but then we talk about personality and not behavior.

          The original comment is a call to action, it is about behavior and not personality.

    • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      302·
      20 hours ago

      This is in no way condoning the practice, only describing why it happens, but a lot of dudes actually derive some kind of pleasure or satisfaction at knowing they’ve made someone else uncomfortable. That motivation generally steers them towards in-person interactions.

      • ch00f@lemmy.world
        19·
        20 hours ago

        I always figured that the game was being a creep because it’s the easiest way to get a woman to interact with your or at least acknowledge your existence. Porn has solutions for that too.

        Or maybe they do indeed just want to make women uncomfortable. Harder to do that with porn since porn actors tend to not be great non-porn actors.

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
      93·
      15 hours ago

      If someone works at Hooters they know what they signed up for. And if that’s objectionable, then I’m just keeping them employed, so clearly that’s good!

      We don’t have Hooters though

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    191·
    18 hours ago

    You have to wonder, is the wife doing this specifically and only to fuck with her husband, or does their take-out food actually have decent price-performance in some way? Maybe the food arrives really fast, or they have some dish that they excel at that no other place in the vicinity has? Maybe their chicken wings are just cheaper than KFC?

    • Aeri@lemmy.world
      10·
      11 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be caught dead ordering food from a service like uber eats. The amount of distress that you would have to inflict upon me for me to even consider Uber Eats would be insane.

      Purchasing a meal from ubereats means suffering an obscene markup that means it will always make more sense for me to go myself.

      Here’s a hypothetical scenario to illustrate:

      In-store price for a meal: $20

      On Uber Eats:

      Restaurant might mark it up 15-30% → $23-$26 just for the food, that’s not so bad, buuuut…

      Plus delivery fee (say $4) + service fee (say $3) + tip (say $3) → total $33-$36

      That means you’re paying ~60-80% more than going to the restaurant or picking up.

      In some cases (especially for smaller meals or chain fast-food), the total jump can exceed 100% more just because you don’t want to drive ten minutes down the road.

      Oh and that’s ignoring the fact that they might do something insane like eat your food or throw it into the bushes or drive around in a circle serving other people and wait for you until the end so by the time you get it your food is stone cold.

      Basically the only excuse that I will accept for Uber Eats is if you suffer from some kind of physical disability that actually prevents you from leaving your home.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        3·
        10 hours ago

        As far as I’m concerned, a restaurant meal is already special occasions only, and you might have more important things to do on a day like that than driving to a restaurant, or just be already drunk, or you really want to drink an alcoholic drink with your meal. A 100% markup isn’t that much in that situation.

        Whether the service is reliable is a different matter … I’m definitely not paying 100% markup if there’s a significant risk that my meal won’t arrive at all. Delivery used to be more reliable than that …

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      16 hours ago

      Hooters’ wing sauce is actually pretty good. I used to be able to buy it in my local grocery store and I’d toss veggie nuggets in it. And I suspect as long as it’s still hot by the time you get it (bit of a gamble I know) buffalo wings probably do better with delivery than a lot of other options.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        12 hours ago

        I don’t think their buffalo sauce is better than any other generic buffalo sauce. Frank’s is my go-to standard. You can get a bottle of Frank’s anywhere for like three bucks. If you’re not doing better than Frank’s, what are you even doing?

    • zout@fedia.io
      10·
      17 hours ago

      If she wants to fuck with her husband, she’d better take him there to get him in the mood if you know what I’m saying…

    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 hours ago

      If no one ever told me what Hooters was about when I was younger, I absolutely would have gone to one as an adult thinking it would involve owls. Like a cat cafe, but owls.