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/tangouniform2020 4d ago

Are you old enough to remember Linens ‘n Things?

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u/Serious-While-823 4d ago

I used to work at a Linens ‘n Things. It was a nice place and I learned a thing or 2 about bed linens

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u/dirtys_ot_special 4d ago

Had to be 2, otherwise it would be Linen ‘n Thing.

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u/RockstarAgent 4d ago

I just wish someone gave a hoot, or two

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u/C64128 4d ago

hoots are nice, but I prefer HOOTS.

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u/Former_Obligation_89 4d ago

Especially since they literally went tits up 😝

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u/jx2002 4d ago

The real linens were the things we learned on the way

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u/technobrendo 4d ago

But did you learn anything about things?

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u/Molto_Ritardando 4d ago

What did you learn? Don’t hold back you have the knowledge.

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u/Silverlynel1234 4d ago

I have never been to one, but the local linen and things is still a vacant building

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u/Asleep_Special_7402 3d ago

Well now it's just local abandoned building. I would squat the shit out of that building

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u/berlyn0963 4d ago

im old enough to remember they were next to a Bed bath beyond when i was living in Northern VA

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u/C64128 4d ago

We had a similar setup here (Nebraska). They both closed, along with a nearby Best Buy. These were all outside a mall (which had a Sears close). Enclosed malls are slowly dying around here. One has been demolished, the others have lost a lot of tenants. The new thing is to have outside shopping centers. That's fine in good weather, but sucks in rain and snow.

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u/tangouniform2020 4d ago

“The new thing”? That’s the way things were before indoor malls appeared

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u/Jersey-man 4d ago

Definitely.

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u/Appropriate_Strain94 1d ago

Are you old enough to remember Woolworths, Montgomery Wards, Zodys and Newburrys?