Do "breastaurants" rub anyone else the wrong way?

I used to not think they weren’t a big deal. Probably because I lived in FL most of my adult life and people are half naked all the time anyway.

Lately, I think they are horrible. Part of what ruined me was episodes on Undercover Boss. I’m pretty much disgusted by breastaurants now.

Part of it might be I’m older too, and more aware of the letches in bars and how awful men can be.

I’m glad you mentioned that episode of Undercover Boss. I believe that was the “Tilted Kilt” franchise. Generally I view that show as paid advertisement. But that episode was pretty brutal. At the end I was like, “I would never, ever go there.”

I have never actually been to any of theses restaurants since from what I gather they are overpriced and the food isn’t all that great. And I do sometimes go to strip clubs since they have cheap beer and chicken strips and fries.

It’s been years since I’ve been to a Hooters, but as I remember the food was pretty good. First time I saw a glass of ice floated in a pitcher of beer to keep it cold. I do remember being disappointed that our Hooters Gal had no hooters! I think the girls clean up on tips though. If I was a female and was properly equipped, I don’t think i would have to work two jobs to get through school.

@johnpowell Actually, there have been three episodes. Tilted Kilt, Hooters, and Bikinis. The guy who owns Bikinis coined breastaurant according to him. He skeeved me out. The other shows it was a manager or customer here and there, but the executive undercover was ok.

I think they’re ridiculous but as long as they’re as profitable as they are there will continue to keep opening up more of them.

But it doesn’t mean I need to patronize them. I’ll just continue ignoring them as I have been. If a restaurant gets any of my hard earned dollars it will be for the quality of the food.

i don’t, but to each his own.

I haven’t been to any of them. Several of us were going to Hooters several years ago, but the lines was too long and we deemed it not worth the wait.

I don’t have strong negative feelings towards these restaurants. There is a market for them (obviously if there are several successful chains). And the women are working there voluntarily – they knew the conditions when the applied and got the job.

Willing patrons and willing staff means a going business concern.

(I like admiring womens’ breasts as much as anyone else – I wouldn’t want them dipping into my beer glass, but otherwise, so what? I go to sports bars where the waiters and waitresses are wearing black and white striped referee’s shirts – that’s a costume gimmick, like women at Hooters dress up.

Put it this way – there are a thousand far more worrisome and reprehensible things that what women wear at Hooters.

Sex and food seems like an odd combination. But apparently it appeals to a lot of people. Definitely not for me though. It’s beast for the digestion your blood to go to your digestion system and not be shunted off to your reproductive system.

They don’t attract me at all; the food is bad, the prices are too high, and I have heard the booze is crappy too. It’s like a Chuck E. Cheese for grown men.

I don’t go to such places.
That said, I wish there was a Starbucks like that.

Skeevy and gross, with a thin veneer of legitimacy.

Dudes, think about this. What if there were a family restaurant called Banana Hammocks, where male waiters walked around in skintight pants? There’s technically nothing risqué about it, but you can totally see the outline of their junk. Groups of ladies go there to watch, IDK, Downton Abbey on Sunday nights. Grandmothers bring their granddaughters there for lunch- there is a kid’s menu. The ladies who go there make skeevy comments about the male workers, who have to smile and act cheerful about it because they are working for tips.

The guys who work there all choose to work there; it’s a free country. But the economy favors women over men. Most executives, doctors, lawyers, and scientists are women. If you’re a guy, you can break into those fields, but your father might not have been able to. You will often be the only guy in a room full of women, or earn less than your colleagues.

But, ok, you’re not a male scientist. You’re a college student and a waiter. You could work at a regular restaurant, but the tips won’t cover all your bills. The waiters at Banana Hammocks earn twice as much money, but in exchange they put up with sexual harassment all the time. And before you go, “heh heh heh, that’s awesome,” remember that it’s the general public. The lady patting your ass is old enough to be your mother, has her hair in a mullet, and just pulled some sweaty bills out of her bra for your tip.

The women working there aren’t doing it because they really want to be there. Nobody in the service industry or sex industry really wants to be there. It’s probably the highest paying option out of several shitty choices. If you’re a guy and you eat at places like this, the waitresses probably hate you.

An old roommate was a manager at Hooters. She talked about it a lot and it seemed the waitresses didn’t so much hate the customers as just think of them as a little desperate. There wasn’t respect there, and they saw themselves as salespeople who were just getting paid for a different kind of hustle. Like the car salesman who seems totally interested in how you decided you needed a new car, when really he’s just gathering information for later and hoping to close the sale.

So the day to day restaurant seems like a tradeoff. To me the really lame stuff is the “special events” like car washes or “appearances” that basically turn the waitresses into underpaid branding. Orange shorts and a tight t-shirt in a restaurant with 40 other ladies dressed the same isn’t good, but the same outfit out in the real world is just ridiculous.

can we make up a Banana Hammocks menu?

yeah, I’ll take the fried pickles as an appetizer, then give me the Banana Dawg with cheese and the Banana Hammock’s Unsplit™ Bananas sundae for dessert please.

The thing is, young women often don’t know there will be men who are really awful in places like that. You can go to the beach and see plenty of women dressed in less, but the probabilities of disgusting men with a few drinks in them doing something that at minimum makes a girl uncomfortable is incredibly high at the breastaurants. Not every guy there is an asshole, but a lot if them are. Watch that bikinis episode and the first restaurant in the show there is a guy at the bar, who is obviously an alcoholic, who is pretty annoyed the bartender didn’t come to work in her bikini that day.

I used to think of the whole boobs thing as like a gimmicky thing. I mean gawd, we live in America. Women have their shape revealed in most outfits, skimpy is everywhere, especially in particular states, you can see a naked girl everyday on the internet, and men are still going to be that disappointed they didn’t see a little more skin? I just don’t get the desperation and voyeur capabilities of men. It’s gross. I look at a gorgeous woman with a gorgeous body too. I appreciate beauty and the female form, but there is some sort if line that gets crossed by some men. It’s like the difference between sexy and trashy. Some men confuse the two and are really attracted to that trashy slutty thing.

What is a breastaurant?

I have never been to one but I don’t see it as much different than a lady bartender in a bar or at a restaurant’s bar with a low cut shirt on, tight jeans, looking sexy and flirting with the customers. She may think of them as fools and if it increases her tips, she’s happy. She’s there voluntarily and knows the deal – she knows what she is getting into and there’s a good chance she knows prior to taking the job that men are into looking at her body.

I’ve been to Hooters a few times, it’s not as bad as other places like Tilted Kilt or Tein peaks because they are covered a bit more and their boobs aren’t spilling out in front of you..

Tilted Kilt was okay, but when the group you go with start getting boners drooling is when it’s uncomfortable. Most of the women are very average with maybe one goodlooking person, might be a different story for Vegas or Miami though.

I know men can look and check out women any time like the beach or club whatever but this is different lol.

@ragingloli A restaurant where the waitresses wear very skimpy outfits and their breasts are basically on display. Not naked, just skimpy or pushed up.

Edit:Here is a photo of Hooters girls.

I don’t care one way or the other. But if the food is shitty, (Hooters food is shitty) I will only go once.

It doesn’t rub me the wrong way more than other businesses and such, as far as the US goes, I think breastuarants is a near perfect and logical fit.

Of course we know those women in the video were lying to keep their job, no woman could EVER enjoy working there for those objectifying, Chauvinistic, sexist, degrading, slimy SOBs ~~~

My son took me to a restaurant called the ‘Tilted Kilt’ I don’t know if it’s a chain, but there were waitresses in quite small outfits. Problems is instead of being titillated, I found myself thinking I have two automobiles in the garage older than they are. I could actually tell you the color of their eyes! Don’t ask me what I ate though. :)

I think the Tilted Kilt was on one of the “Undercover Boss” episodes.

Tilted Kilt was on Undercover Boss. We have one not far from me, but I’ve never eaten there.