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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Daniel Boffey in Newcastle

‘It’s horrible’: Hooters plots British ‘breastaurant’ expansion via Newcastle

A server at Hooters passes food to customers
The opening of a Hooters restaurant in Troy, Michigan. The restaurant is known for its scanty orange uniforms. Photograph: Jim West/Alamy

The (in)famous orange signage is up. Work is apace to be open in a fortnight. The job ad has gone out. Fifty “girls” wanted and they are “hiring in all positions”.

Hooters, the American “breastaurant”, known for its chicken wings and female waiting staff in skimpy nylon shorts and tight vests, is launching in the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne. The experiment in the north-east of England may well prove to be the decisive test of the brand’s reach in Britain.

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