Recent controversies surrounding a Hooters restaurant and a Japanese 'maid café' pale when compared to one 1980s Manchester eatery.
In Salford Quays, the opening of a branch of Hooters – the bar and restaurant chain where scantily-clad young women serve customers – has been delayed amid 'complex negotiations'. It comes after several organisations slammed the chain as "sexist" and "regressive", with staff at the Nottingham branch saying they felt 'empowered' by the uniform in response.
Meanwhile, earlier this year, the Animaid Cafe in Affleck's Palace, where staff wear anime-style maid's uniforms, went viral after Labour councillor Joanne Harding criticised it in a tweet - one which the venue said had been posted 'with no grasp of what we actually are'.
