Despite the recent deposit of hooters for the protection against the bankruptcy of Chapter 11 in Texas Court this week, the Hooters restaurants in Dallas should remain open.
And the first Dallas hooks – now closed in the West End – should reopen in 2025, confirmed the company.
The Dallas Monton on rue N. Lamar suffered a fire in mid-2014 which took more than two hours to turn off. The restaurant has been temporarily closed since mid-July 2024.
Hooters announced online in January 2025 that it would be to hire servers, suggesting a reopening.
But the brand, famous for its chicken wings and its slightly dressed servers, has seen a wave of activities since then. Hooters of America filed a bankruptcy file on March 31, 2025. On the same day, Hooters of America announced that two franchise companies agreed to buy more than 100 of the Hooters of America restaurants, an effort to keep restaurants in a commercial state.
“Our renowned Hooters restaurants are there to stay,” said Sal Melili, CEO of Hooters of America.
The bankruptcy file comes after reporting a drop in pedestrian traffic for the show of the show, Bloomberg reported. Increased costs of food and labor, as well as “change consumer attitudes in catering”, tormented many restaurant chains, The street explain.
Beyond the Hoots bankruptcy deposit, TGI Fridays, the red lobster and the Louie bar have taken similar measures.
In Dallas-Fort Worth, Hooters operates more than a dozen restaurants: in Addison, Arlington, Cedar Hill, Denton, Fort Worth, Frisco, Garland, McKinney, Mesquite, Plano and more.
Hooters started over 40 years ago in Clearwater, Florida over 40 years ago. He broke out in Dallas at the end of the 1980s. His location near the downtown Dallas has changed considerably in more than 35 years: the hooters temporarily closed on rue N. Lamar are now neighboring the Perot Museum, the next Goldman Sachs Development and the American Airlines Center in Victory Park.
From the start, the hooters flirted in controversy in northern Texas. The lean outfits of the servers were a subject of discussion of the municipal council as the company developed in the region.
“Call us old-fashioned, call us conservative or call us square,” said Steve Tune, a member of the City of Addison commission in a Dallas Morning News History in 1990. “A Addison, we want to maintain an image of a more sophisticated boss.”
He did not succeed. Hooters opened its doors in Addison shortly after.
Restaurants have become popular enough The news examined the West End and Addison restaurants jointly in 1991. Food obtained a respectable 3 and a half in 5 stars.
The wings were “succulent” and the waitresses were “soft”.
Hooters in Addison remains open today. More to come on the planned reopening of the West End Restaurant.
Hooters is temporarily closed at 2201 N. Lamar St., Dallas. More than a dozen Hooters restaurants Stay open in other parts of the value of Dallas-Fort.
