Marks and Spencer support new 'Hooters' in Bristol

[JessinAvalon]

Dear all
This is my first post on here so I hope I am doing this right!

I live in Bristol and, last week, 'Hooters' was granted a licence to open in the city centre. The site is virtually opposite 3 apartment blocks, the lower floors of which are social housing and children are living in them.

What's most disappointing is that Marks and Spencer are leasing the site to 'Hooters'. They have been e-mailed by many concerned people to ask if they will reconsider leasing the building but they have just replied saying it is a "commercial decision" (as if that makes it ok!). In Sheffield, a 'Hooters' didn't even make it to application stage because the developer (Ask Pizza) realised that it would be better not to be associated with a company like 'Hooters'.

Marks and Spencer don't seem that concerned, however. Although they have signed up to the "Let Girls Be Girls" Mumsnet campaign they are not concerned about a company which sells merchandise including babygros which say "Future Hooters Girl" and "Does my butt look big in this?"

I have written to Marks and Spencer telling them that I won't be shopping in their stores again. If you feel strongly about this, please e-mail:

[email protected].

'Hooters' tries to sell itself as a family friendly restaurant but it is anything but. The Hooters in Nottingham attracts mainly stag parties and football fans. Hooters Girls take part in bikini contests and iced wet t-shirt competitions (the t-shirts are put in the freezers before the girls wear them). 'Hooters' has links to Playboy magazine....I could go on.....

I think Marks and Spencer should be shamed for facilitating this company's expansion into Bristol. They are selling women and girls down the river by leasing to this company and all just to make a "quick buck".

Thanks everyone.

Unfortunatley sanfair, a few corrections to grammar doesn't make you look cool. It still brings up the fact that you are jealous that you would never get the chance to work in Hooters.

Mike dear, do look up the difference between grammar, spelling and punctuation.
It's really not hard (though you might find it so).

Why would we want to work in Hooters, Mike?

Do you assume that we aren't in good jobs already? I personally don't want to give up my good job to get paid the minimum wage to wait tables on Nuts readers in hotpants. In December.

ha ha, I bet he wears a leather jacket and a slighty-too-tight heavy metal t-shirt over his paunch, and has dandruff and a ponytail.
That is what I am deducing from the content of his posts, anyway.

TheButterlfyEffect, Where is this evidence of sexual harrassment, arse grabbing, tits being leched over?...

There is none...

As Hooters said, you are a small minority who are jealous that there are beautiful girls who are voluntarily working there and you obviously dont trust your partners...

@ non-tipping wankers

Mike, only read on if you don't mind your world crashing down around your shoulders:

Women actually only work in Hooters because they get paid. The minimum wage. That's less than you get paid in Macdonalds or Tesco. They don'T find their customers attractive at ALL. They're just in it for the money.

I cannot wait for bitched with big tits to seve me food and beer.

Over and out

bitches*

It really is quite unjustified to make assumptions about people's personal appearance from words on a screen TBE. We shouldn't be doing it and I'm sure Mike never would.

Oh I forgot....

"voluntarily working there "

But I thought they got paid? Have I got it wrong?

Ill be back once this is open to laugh at your pathetic attempts to stop this going ahead.

LMFAO @ Mike ruining his big dramatic exit with a typo! what a dork!

ROFL

prospective Hooters customer calls women who work there 'bitches with big tits' and is daft enough to type it on the internet, excellent, more ammo for the campaign!

I totally agree with Mike, I am weeping into my motherly pinny* right now at the thought of missing out on the many benefits of being a Hooters girl:

• The minimum wage, just think what I could do with the untold riches of £46.40 a day.

• wearing a small, itchy uniform come rain or shine, plus opportunities to wear a bikini! To work! Wot larks.

• Signing up (literally) to an agreement that waives my right to protest at sexual harrassment.

• Turning up day after day to be leered at by groups of ugly, pervy gangs of twats, with no recourse if they start to grope me or make comments, because that - after all - is what I'm there for.

• Having my photo taken with aforementioned gangs of twats, for them to leer over for ever.

God there's so much more but sadly I have to get on with my day now. Thanks for making me see the light, Mike.

• I am not actually a mother but top marks for wrong assumptions. And if you ask "why, then, are you posting on Mumsnet?" (or however that comes through in your special brand of syntax), I would ask the same of you.

Mike illustrates a good point, people who go to Hooters are likely to think of their waitresses as 'Big titted bitches'.....that's our whole point Mike.

Yes, thank you for clarifying that, Mike!

Oh yes, we are all weeping into our cereal of a morning that we are going out to our decent professional jobs and making decent money without putting up with misogynistic arseholes like you.