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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:34 pm
by gtapp
Cat-theotherwhitemeat wrote:How about this idea for your stadium.....
1. Take out the south bleachers completely (we all know they suck).
2. Fill in that end with a bowl of bleachers of somewhere between 15-20 rows. On top of that, add one row of sky boxes.
3. On the other end (north side), configure it so that it's one big sky box, or an enclosure with windows that open for warmer games and close for cold snowy ones. Kind of like a big bar where you sit and watch the game complete with waiters, bartenders, etc (levels that get higher the farther you get from the field). This enclosure could go above the looker rooms and hold hundreds of people. Plus, think of the money it would bring in and what a way to watch a game! Of course, they'd have to serve Oly.
CAN YOU SAY HOOTERS???????????????
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:38 pm
by Cat-theotherwhitemeat
gtapp wrote:Cat-theotherwhitemeat wrote:How about this idea for your stadium.....
1. Take out the south bleachers completely (we all know they suck).
2. Fill in that end with a bowl of bleachers of somewhere between 15-20 rows. On top of that, add one row of sky boxes.
3. On the other end (north side), configure it so that it's one big sky box, or an enclosure with windows that open for warmer games and close for cold snowy ones. Kind of like a big bar where you sit and watch the game complete with waiters, bartenders, etc (levels that get higher the farther you get from the field). This enclosure could go above the looker rooms and hold hundreds of people. Plus, think of the money it would bring in and what a way to watch a game! Of course, they'd have to serve Oly.
CAN YOU SAY HOOTERS???????????????
Ok, now we're getting somewhere. Game? What game? Gary and I get the first table.
Hooters
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:01 pm
by BobCatFan
The best Hooter’s Restaurant I have been to is the one near the baseball park in Baltimore, Maryland. Very busy place and great pit stop before and after the ballgame. Would a Hooters work in Bozeman?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:29 pm
by GOKATS
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:12 am
by briannell
nothing wrong with Hooters. would do well in a college town, besides there's nothing raunchy about the establishment. i say if you can fit in the orange spank me pants, go ahead and wear them! Not that i'd ever want to see a man try and squeeze into a pair, but would have had no problem working at Hooters as a co-ed. You'd probably make good cash flow.
side note - the Inner Harbor is just a great area anyway, and Camden Yards contributes a great deal to the businesses there. i still think any large college based draw would make a hooters thrive.
-rebecca
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:49 am
by Ponycat
Leave Specs alone
besides they dress as well or better than Hooters chics
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:54 pm
by Bleedinbluengold
Hooters just seems like it is a place with an identity crisis...can't decide whether to sell food or table dances. Isn't it just an Applebees with underwear?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:50 pm
by SonomaCat
Do any locals anywhere actually go to Hooters? There's one right down the street here, and I've never been in it -- it's a tourist hangout. The other places I have seen them are also all touristy places. I just don't get the impression that it the kind of place that local people ever choose to hang out. Maybe the whole schtick of the place is only good for very infrequent visits?
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:26 pm
by grizzh8r
Negatory on the Hooters thought - NO city in MT is big enough for a Hooters. I think the Frachise rules are that the metro area must be at least 200,000 :/. A classmate in HS said her dad looked into it and that is where i got the Info.
On the thought of burying the locker rooms, it wouldn't cost all that much to make tunnels and push some soil over top of them. Concrete is fairly cheap. That would also help with the wind problems.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:56 pm
by grizzh8r
Just posted about this in another area of the nation... Bozeman is too small - needs a city of 200,000 to get any attention from the franchise. Sorry to burst your bubbles guys.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:38 pm
by Grizlaw
Bay Area Cat wrote:Do any locals anywhere actually go to Hooters? There's one right down the street here, and I've never been in it -- it's a tourist hangout. The other places I have seen them are also all touristy places. I just don't get the impression that it the kind of place that local people ever choose to hang out. Maybe the whole schtick of the place is only good for very infrequent visits?
I think that's pretty much right, in general. When I lived in the DC area my friend and I used to go to the Rockville Hooters quite a bit, mainly because there really weren't any better options in the area for watching football on the weekends.
On the other hand, the NYC Hooters is about two blocks from my apartment, and I've only been there with people visiting me from out of town (which also always amazes me -- you're visiting New York City, which has more awesome restaurants and bars than anywhere else I've lived by far -- why the hell would you want to go to Hooters???)
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:21 pm
by Cat-theotherwhitemeat
grizzh8r wrote:Negatory on the Hooters thought - NO city in MT is big enough for a Hooters. I think the Frachise rules are that the metro area must be at least 200,000...
The most recent population (2004 estimate) of Fargo/Moorhead is 126,142. Add West Fargo and you get around 143,000. I've heard that Montana, more specifically Billings as they would most likely be the city to get one, doesn't have one because the rights are already owned and they have, for whatever reason, chosen to wait. I suppose it may have something to do with the high cost of liquor license and the Montana business climate (taxes).
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 10:32 pm
by Cat-theotherwhitemeat
Ok, now I know for sure. It's 100,000 people in a five mile radius so Billings is plenty big enough. However, there is a few other qualifications:
1. Ability to develop 3-5 restaurants within your territory.
2. A restaurant location with at least 100,000-150,000 people within a five mile radius.
3. $3 million in liquid assets.
4. At least 5 years as a multi-unit restaurant owner / operator.
I looks like it depends on how big a "territory" is.
Here, this tells the story...
http://www.hooters.com/company/franchising/
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:37 am
by WYCAT
Cat-theotherwhitemeat wrote:Ok, now I know for sure. It's 100,000 people in a five mile radius so Billings is plenty big enough. However, there is a few other qualifications:
1. Ability to develop 3-5 restaurants within your territory.
2. A restaurant location with at least 100,000-150,000 people within a five mile radius.
3. $3 million in liquid assets.
4. At least 5 years as a multi-unit restaurant owner / operator.
I looks like it depends on how big a "territory" is.
Here, this tells the story...
http://www.hooters.com/company/franchising/
Amazingly enough Cheyenne, WY has one so if they can justify one there about 1/2 dozen cities in Montana can make a claim.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:39 am
by WYCAT
grizzh8r wrote:Just posted about this in another area of the nation... Bozeman is too small - needs a city of 200,000 to get any attention from the franchise. Sorry to burst your bubbles guys.
Not true. As I posted on the other site as well Cheyenne, WY has one and it isn't over about 50,000.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:41 am
by kmax
WYCAT wrote:Cat-theotherwhitemeat wrote:Ok, now I know for sure. It's 100,000 people in a five mile radius so Billings is plenty big enough. However, there is a few other qualifications:
1. Ability to develop 3-5 restaurants within your territory.
2. A restaurant location with at least 100,000-150,000 people within a five mile radius.
3. $3 million in liquid assets.
4. At least 5 years as a multi-unit restaurant owner / operator.
I looks like it depends on how big a "territory" is.
Here, this tells the story...
http://www.hooters.com/company/franchising/
Amazingly enough Cheyenne, WY has one so if they can justify one there about 1/2 dozen cities in Montana can make a claim.
Cheyenne probably falls within the Denver "territory" though allowing it to have one. Billings' territory would have to include all of Idaho or the Dakotas to find enough 100,000 population centers to get 3-5 restaurants.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:46 am
by mquast53000
Grizlaw wrote:On the other hand, the NYC Hooters is about two blocks from my apartment, and I've only been there with people visiting me from out of town (which also always amazes me -- you're visiting New York City, which has more awesome restaurants and bars than anywhere else I've lived by far -- why the hell would you want to go to Hooters???)
That is so funny, my wife always has friends visiting her from Miles City and they always want to go eat at the Olive Garden. It cracks me up; the last 4 people that have come through have all wanted to go to Olive Garden. I think that Olive Garden kind of sucks, especially with all the other choices there are in Billings. It probably is even worse when people want to go to Hooters when they are in NYC! People have strange tendencies.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:13 am
by briannell
my wife can still work at Hooters
lucky me, and this after two kids!
Brian
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:13 am
by SonomaCat
It kind of reminds me of the crazy character in Happy Gilmore who always made optimistic references to eating at Sizzler and Red Lobster.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:14 am
by briannell
suck up looking for brownie points
-rebecca
