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LeftInTX

(34,015 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 08:30 PM Jul 2025

Hulk Hogan's Death Plunges Hooters' Future Into Uncertainty

The death of WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan on July 24, 2025, has wrestling fans around the country mourning the loss of an iconic legend. Some may be aware that outside the ring, Hogan (whose real name is Terry Bollea) launched a beer company in summer 2024, dubbed Real American Beer. The company had been successfully expanding its footprint in the light beer sector until the Hulkster passed away at the age of 71. It has been so successful, in fact, that it was even considering treading into the restaurant industry by acquiring the failing Hooters chain. However, with RAB suddenly finding itself without its co-founder, those plans are up in the air.

Hooters announced that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2025. The company had been in financial hot water for some time, leading some to wonder how Hooters is still open anywhere. Still, the business was trying to right the ship with its move to file for Chapter 11. Real American Beer first wanted to buy the company's intellectual property but eventually opted to make a bid to purchase every Hooters restaurant worldwide, possibly saving the chain from financial ruin. However, without Hogan at the helm, it is uncertain whether those plans will ever come to fruition.

Read More: https://www.thetakeout.com/1922342/what-hulk-hogan-death-means-chain-hooters/

I thought the headline was interesting. Hulk Hogan and Hooters seem made for each other...Both rose to fame in the 80s. Both are very 80ish. Both are raunchy. Hulk Hogan likely only stayed relevant because of Trump. Hooters just isn't relevant.

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Hulk Hogan's Death Plunges Hooters' Future Into Uncertainty (Original Post) LeftInTX Jul 2025 OP
That term "intellectual property" genxlib Jul 2025 #1
Back in the olden days BOSSHOG Jul 2025 #2
The hulking boob joint Blue Owl Jul 2025 #3
I used to sell cash registers to them Henry203 Jul 2025 #4
Too much competition in the market. Xolodno Jul 2025 #5
Holy crap. LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #10
Use of the word "plunges" is amusing. John1956PA Jul 2025 #6
"Real American Beer" LudwigPastorius Jul 2025 #7
if money were no object, I would drink NOTHING but dark beer, Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #9
'Hooters' is going bankrupt? if you fail with a restaurant based on boobs, Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #8
Yes, they filed earlier this year. LeftInTX Jul 2025 #12
And I guess their actual 'food' wasn't all that great---??? Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #14
Twin Peaks seems to be all over the place. LeftInTX Jul 2025 #15
'Twin Peaks'--- Yeah, I recall that name as some old TV show I never watched, Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #17
How disgusting. I wasn't sure what a Hooters meant, so I looked it up. THIS is what I found! Abolishinist Jul 2025 #11
Yep LeftInTX Jul 2025 #13
They seem rather 'lame' representatives of the BRAND.... Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #16
Oh, I took a hard look. And after careful consideration, I chose door #1. Abolishinist Jul 2025 #18

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
2. Back in the olden days
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 08:34 PM
Jul 2025

I got a free lunch at Hooters on Veterans Day. The only day of the year I went there. Wife and I had a nice time. And the interior was covered with gigantic TVs. Never a fan of Hulk Hogan. Or those like him.

Xolodno

(7,315 posts)
5. Too much competition in the market.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 09:41 PM
Jul 2025

You have Tilted Kilt, Twin Peaks and some raunchier ones like Bombshells. Hooters was first on the market and enjoyed that success. However, now even their competitors are closing stores as the market is just too saturated.

That's why they call it capitalism.

LudwigPastorius

(14,198 posts)
10. Holy crap.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:00 PM
Jul 2025

I'd never heard of Bombshells. A war-themed breastaurant is pretty sick when you think about it.

They feature "The Fatman...This pizza is the bomb!". Nothing quite so hilarious as an entree named after a weapon that snuffed out 50,000 people in an instant.

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)
9. if money were no object, I would drink NOTHING but dark beer,
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:53 PM
Jul 2025

and much of that imported (Guiness) (still liked Michelob Amber, which used to be called Classic Dark or something like that....)


Unfortunately I am reduced to buying the cheapest pale American beers that I can afford
(mostly Milwaukee's Best Ice in 24s, and Bud Ice 24s, from The Dollar General...
which is within walking distance!)

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)
8. 'Hooters' is going bankrupt? if you fail with a restaurant based on boobs,
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:50 PM
Jul 2025

then you really have fucked up in the restaurant business---
possibly because all you could see were the boobs


(Sort of like Trump's casinos going bankrupt, in a business where the house mostly wins)


LeftInTX

(34,015 posts)
12. Yes, they filed earlier this year.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:23 PM
Jul 2025

Too much competition. Too many breastaurants out there now.

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)
14. And I guess their actual 'food' wasn't all that great---???
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:29 PM
Jul 2025

They banked on the boobs.... but as far as that goes,
one can see all the boobs they want on the internet now
(without them being covered up)---

and hell, you can order food to your internet location,
if you don't feel like driving out to pick it up....

Yeah, outdated business model

(OH, Hooters is the only 'breastaurant' that I ever heard of...
possibly I don't get out enough--- but they all liked to do it
even without the name)

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)
17. 'Twin Peaks'--- Yeah, I recall that name as some old TV show I never watched,
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:37 PM
Jul 2025

but not as a restaurant--- guess we don't have "two many" of them in Michigan....

Abolishinist

(2,888 posts)
11. How disgusting. I wasn't sure what a Hooters meant, so I looked it up. THIS is what I found!
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:15 PM
Jul 2025

Jack Valentino

(4,381 posts)
16. They seem rather 'lame' representatives of the BRAND....
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:35 PM
Jul 2025


Must be a 'bigger' photo out there somewhere,
perhaps you didn't look hard enough...

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