Hooters: Have breastaurants become overexposed?

Hooters, America’s first and most influential breastaurant chain (a restaurant with waitresses in revealing uniforms), had endured – but also embraced – criticisms of its image for decades. By 2017, however, Hooters’ image did not seem to be appealing to its target market, young males, the way it had appealed to the 1980s and 1990s young males. At a time when sexualized stimuli had become highly proliferated, coupled with a heightening respect between genders through social movements such as the #MeToo movement, Hooters was facing declining sales and multiple location closings.