Hooters restaurant chain files for bankruptcy protection | US News

Hooters, the chain of restaurants based in the United States known for chicken wings and lean servers outfits, filed a bankruptcy file.

Hoa Restaurant Group filed the request for the protection of chapter 11 Monday in the bankruptcy court in northern Texas in Dallas.

The company – whose outlets are often called derisory of “parameters” and are known for their so -called “hooters” girls ” – have encountered financial misfortunes as her debts rose, but she says she intends to stay open and solve her problems in a few months. A group of founders of the company of the company which has almost a third of the American hooters, including about half of its largest restaurants, plans to buy and operate more outlets, Hoots said in a press release.

“Our renowned Hooters restaurants are there to stay and we take measures to strengthen our business to better serve our precious long -term customers,” said the company in a website opinion.

Hooters, based in Atlanta, in Georgia, was founded in Clearwater, Florida, in 1983. Problems have been prepared for some time.

Hooters had sponsored the NASCAR car n ° 9 driving by Chase Elliott since 2017. But last year, Hendrick Motorsports ended his links with the longtime sponsor because he does not respect his financial commitments.

Its commercial strategy has been faced with challenges over the years, including prosecution on its hiring of women only to serve customers.

Last year, he agreed to pay $ 250,000 and grant another reparation to settle a trial of discrimination of race and color brought by the American commission on the chances of employment in equality of the United States against a point of sale Hooters in Greensboro, in North Carolina.

In 2022, the restaurant refuted the claims it closed and rebuilt due to the evolution of customer tastes.

In 2019, the Hotel-Casino Hoters off the strip in Las Vegas was sold to an Indian hotel company and renamed Hotel and Casino Oyo.

In 2017, the company tried to open a restaurant that did not have servers in high tights as a test of an approach different from its original concept.