Hooters Coming to Campbell

The old Spoons site on the corner of Hamilton and Bascom will become a Hooters and likely open in April.

The cover story in today's Campbell Reporter, Whether it's naughty or nice, Hooters comes to town, says, "Campbell officials have little say as to whether Hooters can open within its city limits...as long as Hooters has
the same operational hours and number of seats as Spoons, the chain
does not have to apply to the city for a conditional-use permit."

I don't plan to patronize it. I think our world has enough tacky and tastelessly-dressed women. What do you think?

I have to say, I just never quite understood the Hooters restaurant chain. Obviously, with a name like Hooters, you might know what to expect, except they claim that it's the name is something of an joke and it's really a family restaurant and it's all about the fun and the food. They even have family promotional discounts.

It's probably mostly marketing spin, but it all just seems like a very confused marketing strategy to me. I mean if you're really a family restaurant, wouldn't you make more money and have more customers if your identity were a bit different? On the other side, if you're really about the hooters, then why even pretend to be a family restaurant?

I've never been inside a Hooters restaurant before, so I can't really comment from first hand experience. Well... at least the City gets some revenue out of the deal and it's not in the area of Campbell that most people think of as Campbell.

I can imagine there'll be a lot of eBay team outings there.

The same article ran in the Merc too, and it was the most emailed story of the day.

This post has been edited by mobyfan on Dec 22 2007, 12:40 AM

I didn't know spoons closed. When did it close?

A hooters in town, wow. So campbell will become the new sunnyvale with girlie bars, serving food.