r/wallstreetbets • u/JadedAsparagus9639 • 5d ago

News Hooters files for bankruptcy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/business/hooters-restaurant-bankruptcy?cid=ios_app
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u/Cold-Permission-5249 5d ago

Recession confirmed

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u/Hans_Grubert 5d ago

Inverted bust curve confirmed

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u/chuddyman Something about dildos 5d ago

Wrong! Found out that's not actually allowed at hooters.

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u/JH_Rockwell 4d ago

"Is this some kind of bust?"

"Well... it's very impressive, yes, but we need to ask you a few questions."

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u/meteorprime 5d ago

Let me know when “only fans” files for bankruptcy.

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u/Sunny1-5 5d ago

It wouldn’t exist if gumps, not unlike many of us right here, right now, would stop giving our money to OF and online porn. Stop it. Get out there, learn some manners, take a goddam shower for once, and MEET live people.

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u/Time_Eagle 5d ago

Get out there

I get out all the time!

learn some manners

I like to think I'm pretty polite.

take a goddamn shower for once

My hygiene is impeccable.

and MEET live people

Okay, you lost me.

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u/sundancer2788 4d ago

I'm not interested in meeting live people either unless it for gaming. I do hike and cycle and that's enjoyable.

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u/Pickledsoul 4d ago

I do hike and cycle and that's enjoyable

Ah so you've met lots of unlive people, then

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u/sundancer2788 4d ago

Lol! Nah, just not a social person. I'm fine in social situations but I don't seek them out. Tbh I was fine during covid stay at home, enjoyed wfh! I never hung out with fellow employees after work, ate lunch by myself but had no issue chatting on breaks etc.

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u/Pickledsoul 4d ago

Don't worry. Most dead people don't talk much. Just stay from retirement homes. The dead love talking there.

LOL I'm kidding. I'm in the same boat. I like being invited, but I'd never do anything outside home unless someone needed a +1.

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u/sundancer2788 4d ago

Exactly!

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u/dak-sm 5d ago

Eh - that sounds like a lot of work.

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u/cocoon_eclosion_moth 5d ago

Right, a shower before I go out in public? Plus I have to meet people?!

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u/Sindertone 4d ago

Just wait until it's raining to go out. Win win.

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u/ThrowCarp 5d ago

This but unironically. I'm doing the whole meetup thing and the whole putting yourself out there thing.

It's one thing to meet people, and another to meet people you truly can get along with and become friends (let alone romantic partners).

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u/tivmaSamvit 4d ago

Honestly I think everyone should pick colleges based on where they want to live. Not ideal

But man going from having too many texts to properly reply to in college to being alone mid to late 20’s in a new city is wild

Meetup and other events are cool but damn does that get exhausting after a full day of work

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u/Thereapergengar 4d ago

This is why the USA needs a red district like they have then ranches in Nevada

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 5d ago

Just to crank it? Idk

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u/Death_Rises 4d ago

CRANK THAT HOG!

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u/SilverKnightOfMagic 5d ago

lol thats actually more expensive.

but then also there are ppl in relationship paying for only fans.

paying for porn isn't anything new. I like how ppl think it has that huge significant effect when there's other things at play

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u/kaamkerr 4d ago

Most of these idiots are chatting with ai bots or a sweaty Indian man behind a keyboard

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u/Right_Secret5888 5d ago

Don't even have to go that far. There are vast amounts of FREE online porn. Quit being a simp and paying for it.

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u/irrigated_liver 5d ago

But if I spend enough money, the guy she pays to run the account and reply to her DMs might mention my username one day.

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u/ActiveChairs 5d ago

There are hot local singles in your area....

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u/Zanaxz 5d ago

It's easier than that, it's not like there isn't free porn out there in 2025

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u/MrWeirdoFace 5d ago

By live people you mean like... flesh bags? eeeeeeeew.

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u/earblah 5d ago

That's work!

And you risk getting rejected.

Gooncave never rejects you!

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u/MannerBot 5d ago

Getting rejected aint all that bad

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u/Yuji_shoyo 5d ago

Giving money to onlyfans model? It’s free here. Why waste your money there

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u/KryptoChicken 4d ago

Meh, live people are overrated.

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u/Thereapergengar 4d ago

What does meeting a living person have to do with wanting self pleasure when you want it??? Ppl like like just because you have a gf or bf or husband or wife, that sex is just a quick question away. When in reality it’s not.

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u/Worried_Highway5 4d ago

Or just use free porn

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u/Train3rRed88 4d ago

Or just… you know, enjoy the bountiful cornucopia of free porn out there

Like, are people so desperate for feet pics from specific people that they will pay money rather than jack off to the millions of free feet pics on google?

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u/Slight-Recipe-3762 4d ago

I think the online dating shit is pathetic. People have such high expectations. At least the gays have it right. Grindr has it alright gays do everything better. Apps, Neighborhoods, cocktails and parades.

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u/DelightfulDolphin 4d ago

Why should we stop it? So what if we, I, some of us like porn? So tired of the religious trope against porn. Get over it.

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u/bobservation75 4d ago

I'm married and enjoy seeing women my dad bod would get smacked for even glancing at. Let me be, Karen!

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u/Rich_Housing971 4d ago

Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about OnlyFans?

Simps mismanaging their money is the least of my concerns. It's like the lottery- a bunch of stupid people giving money to someone else.

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u/BathtubToasterParty 5d ago

Show me on this doll where the OF girl rejected you

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u/Sunny1-5 5d ago

You can’t be “rejected” by a fucking video screen.

My god. I have no use here at all.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 5d ago

Sure you can if you can't afford the subscription fee. So many nudes, hidden away forever from the poors.

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u/Bug-03 5d ago

Don’t bother. These regards don’t know how to speak to humans

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u/Ok-Bodybuilder4634 5d ago

Rich coming from a redditor

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u/Bug-03 5d ago

I’m a stay at home dad, I need someone to argue with

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u/PapiGoneGamer Disgraced Former Bear Gang Colonel 5d ago

I’m sure you’re swimming in pussy, bud

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u/Sunny1-5 5d ago

I am not. Not swimming in anything but the goddam sweat I poured out in the gym and on the bike today.

I don’t go out much at all. I don’t have the sex drive that you younger guys should have. But I’m god dam not going to give my money to anyone for a look at their tits or ass.

Times may have changed since I was a young man, but I know that you don’t pay for sex, unless you are just that damn desperate. Work on that last part.

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u/freakinunoriginal 5d ago

Times may have changed since I was a young man, but I know that you don’t pay for sex

What, do you predate the Bible?

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u/PapiGoneGamer Disgraced Former Bear Gang Colonel 5d ago

I’m 35 and married. Fuck OnlyFans and fuck you too.

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u/Hot-Significance7699 5d ago

> says fuck onlyfans

> other guy says fuck onlyfans also

> says fuck the guy for hating onlyfans

> based.

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u/lovesducks 5d ago

35 and illiterate. ya hate to see it.

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u/MannerBot 5d ago

Why do you care so much what other people do with their money? It has zero bearing on you

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u/OPsDaddy 5d ago

About 5 years after it’s bought out by private equity.

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u/heyhoyhay 5d ago

Not onlyfans itself, just the parasites there get gradually replaced by AI girls.

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u/Ok-Air-5056 5d ago

unless lawsuits start happening i don't see that any time soon.. they don't sell any actual product, and it's really the middle man between the buyer and the seller... essentially the updated version of the Madame in the whorehouse

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u/nosimsol 4d ago

Wonder if AI will put OF workers out of business

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u/Least-Back-2666 5d ago

They tried to rebrand to non sex work and walked it back within a month.

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u/UncertainDust 5d ago

I just watched an episode of “The Food That Built America” today. It was the Buffalo wing episode that featured Hooters. Also, I drove by a Hooters today and the parking lot had about 4 cars in it. I thought “Man I can’t believe they are still in business.” Well, now we know.

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u/_hypnoCode 5d ago

At one point they had good wings and sauce, especially since they were the first big chain to do them.

But they changed the recipe and they are just a slimy mess. I'd rather buy wings from a gas station.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 5d ago

They didn’t change the recipe, they cheapened the recipe…they over expanded and their supply chain couldn’t handle the load.

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u/getmet79 5d ago

Giggity

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u/Distinct_Ad6858 5d ago

I loved going in there. Last time in they didn’t have one good beer. It was 2019 and they had all the the generic crap so ended up with a shock top and wings and a great view. But the food and beer was just nasty.

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u/UnlikelyPlatypus89 5d ago

I got horrible food poisoning from their fried pickles. Sometimes I look at a beautiful woman wearing a low cut shirt and get reminded. I will never forgive hooters for that.

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u/MannerBot 5d ago

How did you confirm it was the fried pickles specifically that gave yiu food poisoning?

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u/h60ace 4d ago

You shouldn’t get food poisoning from fried pickles.

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u/MannerBot 4d ago

Yea that’s why I asked. It’s possible but incredibly improbable. Not only that, it takes up to 72 hours to digest food it’s damn near impossible to pinpoint what actually gave you food poisoning

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u/UnlikelyPlatypus89 4d ago

You shouldn’t get food poisoning from coffee either but been there done that

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u/h60ace 4d ago

I’m certain we got sick at a Chinese buffet in Colorado Springs though back in 2015. The whole lot of us (4 in my nuclear at that time) got incredibly ill the night following our smorgasbord. I’ll never eat at a Chinese buffet again.🤮🤢

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u/UnlikelyPlatypus89 4d ago

I only ate some eggs for breakfast. Then at dinner I ate solely ate fried pickles because I used to be obsessed. Maybe 30 minutes later I was barfing my guts out and it didn’t have any egg in it.

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u/MannerBot 4d ago

what about the day before? Food poisoning can be from food you had 72 hours before

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u/UnlikelyPlatypus89 4d ago

It can be. But sometimes it’s instant. This was instant. And the fried pickles smelled off.

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u/Polldit220 4d ago

Pickles are preserved. It was probably the oil…

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u/Polldit220 4d ago

That diet would make anyone barf

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u/Stray_Friendly_Fire 5d ago

So what I'm hearing is: you jinxed their sh!+

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u/imprimis2 4d ago

The original owners still held onto a few locations down here in Florida. I don’t think those will close.

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u/birdy101235 5d ago

This comment is criminally underrated.

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u/tennismenace3 5d ago

This is the top comment homie

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 5d ago edited 5d ago

Underated nowadays just means you like something, not that it deserves more credit than its due

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u/Harrycrapper 5d ago

This explanation is criminally underrated

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u/gordlewis 5d ago

That Hansel is so underrated right now

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u/vim_deezel 5d ago

Being underrated is underrated.

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u/l3ane 5d ago

Correct and overrated means you don't like something.

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u/UraniumDisulfide 5d ago edited 5d ago

No, if you use it like that you’re wrong.

Words can change, obviously, but they shouldn’t change when we don’t have good replacements. Especially when we already have so, so many words that can simply describe whether you like something.

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u/iwannabesmort 5d ago

it's a joke

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u/UraniumDisulfide 5d ago

Maybe they meant it that way but it’s actually how a lot of people use it

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u/UraniumDisulfide 5d ago edited 5d ago

That’s stupid because there isn’t a good replacement for “underrated”, whereas we already have dozens of words to say something is good. Yall just need to learn what words mean and use them correctly.

I’m sick of people thinking I mean good/bad when I say underrated/overrated. They are different, and smudging the difference lowers English’s utility.

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u/Candlelight_Fant4sia 5d ago

You mean undervalued, upvote now before it goes to ATH

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u/vim_deezel 5d ago

they were doing bad before Trump's attempt to destroy the economy and cause the next Great Depression.

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u/copyrider 5d ago

They’ve gone tits up

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u/Motor-Koala413 5d ago

Depression 😞

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u/Sunny1-5 5d ago

Would you believe: calls.

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u/Poliosaurus 5d ago

No shit. Didn’t we lose Vegas hooters hotel during 08’? Fuck I’m old.

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u/ChaseballBat 5d ago

The first death

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u/Mrsparkles7100 5d ago

Hooters Bust

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u/macmadman 5d ago

AI porn surpasses the uncanny valley confirmed

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u/Arnab_ 5d ago

Why would women risk physical contact when they could just sell bath water to incels online.

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u/Ok-Big-4585 5d ago

let me solo her

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u/ForGrateJustice 4d ago

For you. The rest of us Rich Gang are going to buy up everything cheap and then rent it back to you at cutthroat prices.

You will own nothing and be happy.

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u/juicybananas 4d ago

The one near me was franchise owned and had their own hot sauce. Beer in pitchers that the waitress poured for you and then would put a bag of ice in when there was room to keep the beer cold.

10 year ago place was bought by corporate, special hot sauce and the chef that made it gone. Long gone were the days of pitchers being poured into your glass and bags of ice. Sauces were weak and sweet tasting instead of savory. Wings were barely cooked and asking for more doneness or more sauce was like asking for the world.

Floor boards sticking up, old tables and chairs. Felt like I was eating leftover wings while sitting in a trash can and no waitress even cared I was there. I've seen this coming at least for the one near me for a long time.

We had a Quaker Steak give it a run for its money but then a bunch of bikers made it their spot and due to corruption and shootings and fights it closed.

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u/The_Scarred_Man 4d ago

They went tits up

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u/Akanash94 4d ago

Hot blonde white girl was my uber driver today. Yeah we def are in a recession.

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u/Akbeardman 4d ago

Honestly there are a few strip clubs in New York that might make a great recession indicator. Some economist or WSJ reporter should talk their expense account and look into this.

Right up there with when waitresses and bartenders get more attractive and golf courses offering weekend specials.