Bangkok – Hooters, the headquarters with headquarters in the United States known by chicken wings and Stars-Staff attire of “Hooters Girls”, has requested bankruptcy protection.
Hoa Restaurant Group presented the motion of protection of Chapter 11 on Monday at the Banking Court of Northern Texas in Dallas.
The company ran into financial problems as its debts increased, but says it intends to stay open and solve its problems in a matter of months. A group of the original founders of the company that has almost a third of the American hooters locations, including approximately half of its greatest volume restaurants, plans to buy and operate more of the points of sale, Hooters said in a press release.
“Our renowned Hooters restaurants are here to stay and we are taking measures to strengthen our business to better serve our valuable long -term customers,” the company said in a warning on its website.
Hooters, based in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded on Clearwater, Florida, in 1983. Problems had been brewing for a while.
Hooters had sponsored the Nascar Auto No. 9 driven by Chase Elliott since 2017, but last year, Hendrick Motorsports ended his ties with the sponsor for a long time because he was not fulfilling his financial commitments.
Its commercial strategy has faced challenges over the years, including demands on their hiring only “Hooters” to meet customers.
Last year he agreed to pay $ 250,000 and provide another relief to solve a race and color Discrimination demand Brought by the United States Employment Employment Opportunities Commission against a Hooters Departure in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 2022, the restaurant Refuted claims It went out and changed due to the changing tastes of customers.
In 2019, the Hotel-Casino de Hooters outside the Las Vegas strip Sold to an Indian hotel Company and renowned as Oyo Hotel and Casino.
In 2017, the company tried to open a restaurant that did not present Waiting assistant at the upper partas proof of a different approach to its original concept.
