Steven Harrison, Northern Virginia and Maryland regional manager for Hooters, said that before opening the Fredericksburg restaurant had 150 applications, from which he chose 45 women, ranging in age from 18 to 35. Many of the waitresses were cheerleaders at local high schools. The cheerleader type is the perfect Hooter Girl. That's what's in the handbook. Messeder revealed some requirements imposed on the young women when they take the job.
Hair has to be worn down.
They want all the girls to be the same. There's no age ceiling, Harrison said. One Richmond Hooters waitress is 47 years old. She said other Hooters Girls make even more. Messeder loved the job, but another Spotsylvania County woman, former Chancellor High School president Michelle Mendez, decided against working at Hooters after being offered a waitressing job there this summer.