'Complex' negotiations with a landlord have delayed the opening of the controversial Hooters restaurant and bar in Salford - where scantily-clad young women will serve customers. The boss behind the Hooters restaurant and bar says it could be the middle or the end of the year before its outlet in Salford Quays can open.
Julian Mills, who has run the Nottingham Hooters for the last 21 years, said that negotiations with the landlord of 3 Capital Quay were ‘coming to an end’. The licence for Hooters was granted by Salford city council in June in face of 91 objections and opposition from its own mayor Paul Dennett, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and MPs Rebecca Long-Bailey and Barbara Keeley.
Mr Mills said he was ‘confident’ the new Hooters bar would open some time this year. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “We thought getting the licence would be much more difficult than getting the deal done with the landlord, but it has been the other way round.
