Do you eat at Hooters? Are you a woman?

[Anonymous]

Not eating at chain restaurants if you live in DC is not a snob thing. It is a fact of life. A lot of them are just not there, or weren't until recently when developers finally noticed that the city wants retail too (like when DC USA opened up five years ago). It wasn't even an option (other than McDonald's and Hardees) when I moved here in '94, unless you actually left the city. There has never been a lack of options, but most of them are not chains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not eating at chain restaurants if you live in DC is not a snob thing. It is a fact of life. A lot of them are just not there, or weren't until recently when developers finally noticed that the city wants retail too (like when DC USA opened up five years ago). It wasn't even an option (other than McDonald's and Hardees) when I moved here in '94, unless you actually left the city. There has never been a lack of options, but most of them are not chains.

Not true at all, been here for ages. The whole eat local thing is new.

Maybe you don't get around enough to know many of those restaurants stared in NY, Chicago, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not eating at chain restaurants if you live in DC is not a snob thing. It is a fact of life. A lot of them are just not there, or weren't until recently when developers finally noticed that the city wants retail too (like when DC USA opened up five years ago). It wasn't even an option (other than McDonald's and Hardees) when I moved here in '94, unless you actually left the city. There has never been a lack of options, but most of them are not chains.

Not true at all, been here for ages. The whole eat local thing is new.

Maybe you don't get around enough to know many of those restaurants stared in NY, Chicago, etc.

Tell me what chains were in Adams Morgan and Mount Pleasant "ages" ago. Tell me what chains are there now.

"Those restaurants"? Which ones are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

I would stab myself in the eye before I would enter that establishment. I can't even say the name, I call it the Owl Place. Its existence in 2013 America is a disgrace. I always used to say that if I were absurdly wealthy I would buy them out and shut them all down just so I don't ever have to drive by that sickening orange logo ever again. And yes, I'm a woman.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know there was one in Chinatown. I have to say, I probably wouldn't eat in one around here, just because there are many, many better options. But when I have lived in and traveled to more chain-dominated places with less food diversity, sure! The onion rings are good, the service is friendly. There are lots worse options. What, I'd rather be at a Cracker Barrel, which has all the fat, twice the salt, and surly staff to boot?

I agree that a HammBone chain would be awesome. (Yes, I just named our male-objectification restaurant after Jon Hamm.) But it would flop, because women who go to Hooters are just accompanying their menfolk, or they really like the burgers, or whatever, and being seen there is not an admission of improper sexual feelings. No heterosexual man would ever set foot in a HammBone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would stab myself in the eye before I would enter that establishment. I can't even say the name, I call it the Owl Place. Its existence in 2013 America is a disgrace. I always used to say that if I were absurdly wealthy I would buy them out and shut them all down just so I don't ever have to drive by that sickening orange logo ever again. And yes, I'm a woman.

YOU DON'T SAY??!!???

[Anonymous]

Yeap. I love the tater tots and frickles and DD loves the wings.

[Anonymous]

I love the spicy meatballs at Hammbones!

[Anonymous]

i live and work in dc and i go to the hooters on 7th sometimes. i am a woman and i also love to go to a nice chain restaurant once in a while. i know its not cool to say you like the olive garden and outback and carraba's but i do. i am guilty of not wanting to leave the city so these places are a rare "treat" for me.

i used to go to the hooters up on the pike all the time when i worked in bethesda. good wings, cheap beer and trivia night.

[Anonymous]

I'm a liberal feminist, I eat there. No problem with it.

[Anonymous]

I used to drive out to the Olive Garden in Falls Church every now and then when I lived in DC! People do it! Hey, their salads and breadsticks are good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would stab myself in the eye before I would enter that establishment. I can't even say the name, I call it the Owl Place. Its existence in 2013 America is a disgrace. I always used to say that if I were absurdly wealthy I would buy them out and shut them all down just so I don't ever have to drive by that sickening orange logo ever again. And yes, I'm a woman.

LOLOL

I bet your husband goes to the Owl Place on business trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to drive out to the Olive Garden in Falls Church every now and then when I lived in DC! People do it! Hey, their salads and breadsticks are good.

I maintain that if you refuse to enter Outback to eat a Bloomin Onion once in awhile, you're really not living.

[Anonymous]

Lib Feminist again, I'd rather eat at a Hooters that offers health care than an Olive Garden that tries to weasel out of it.

[Anonymous]

No, I think it's unbearably sexist. I'm a woman.