Hooters restaurants are definitely not about owls, so it must be the food and sexy women serving it, with an emphasis on the latter. There is already one Hooters in Orlando, one that opened Monday in Altamonte Springs and a third planned for Kirkman Road near Universal Studios later this summer.
Additional outlets are in the works for downtown and east Orlando in the coming year.
L.D. Stewart is the brains, brawn and chef behind the fast-growing wing 'n' breast joints that started seven years ago in Clearwater, Fla. and now span the entire Southern region. In Hooters, he has combined them all. Stewart, a contractor by trade, had a job in Lauderdale and was drawn night after night to this same shack, a place called Tarts. He was convinced such a place was needed in Clearwater. Not long after the first road trip, Stewart made another, to Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he sampled the local oyster roast.