Original Hooters Owners Joke They Wanted to Create a Restaurant 'They Couldn’t Get Kicked Out Of'

It's ever bully to retrieve your roots.

For nan founders of Hooters, that is precisely what they person done to prevention nan edifice concatenation from bankrupty.

According to Newsweek, connected Tuesday, Oct. 14, Hooters Inc., nan statement which opened nan first Hooters edifice successful 1983, announced that it finanized its acquisition of Hooters of America, nan institution which owns and operates complete a 100 restaurants successful nan U.S.

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Hooters of America revenge for Chapter 11 protections successful March to reside its $376 cardinal debt, Newsweek reported.

The projected caller early for Hooters comes retired of a consequence of Neil Kiefer, 73, CEO of nan Original Hooters Founders Group calling up members of nan original group of founders, Gil DiGiannantonio, 77, Edward Droste, 74, and Dennis Johnson, 74, to create a scheme of action.

The group joked successful nan early days of nan edifice concatenation that should unfastened a spot that "they couldn’t get kicked retired of," per Forbes.

“It added to nan lore," Kiefer told nan outlet.

The group are friends are starring a $40 cardinal woody to get 111 Hooters locations retired of bankruptcy.

Kiefer told Forbes that he and his friends made this determination aft immoderate "soul searching" explaining "we don't want to time off nan Hooters world successful nan information it is in. We person a civilized obligation."

"This is our baby," DiGiannantonio told nan outlet. "To spot it spell down nan toilet, it collapsed our hearts. And it was embarrassing to spell to nan state nine aliases nan market shop and hear, ‘Hey, I perceive you guys are filing bankruptcy.’ That's each we kept connected hearing. I’d say, ‘Well, it's not really us.' "

With nan takeover, Hooters patrons will announcement "immediate" changes to is restaurants including “fresher value ingredients” and a “cleaner menu," reported Newsweek. Its female servers are besides expect to return to wearing nan “original uniforms,” according nan outlet.

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"It's not a guaranteed slam dunk," Kiefer told Forbes. "We person to triumph customers back, and that's not going to hap overnight conscionable because nan tribunal says, Okay, return it over."