Rehoboth has for years kept a lid on hearty-partying bars by insisting establishments with liquor licenses serve full menus. Most Hooters serve only sandwiches, salads and fried chicken wings. Nevertheless, commissioners met last week and voted again, to a new outcome. Nothing changed in the interim, except the restaurant's Pennsylvania-based investment group filed a Chancery Court lawsuit against the town. Attorney and Hooters investor Mark Patterson said some officials had misconceptions about Hooters, which he characterized as a family-oriented restaurant.
Many people think it's a gentlemen's club.
Many people think it's a bar that caters to interests that we are not at all like. That should come as news to the guys who run the national chain. In case you missed it, that remark contains a generous dollop of the smarmy attitude about sex that has always marked the chain's endeavors. The implication is that very few people will be drawn to a restaurant featuring young, well-built men in tight outfits. That might be true in most places, but not in Rehoboth, which attracts thousands of gay vacationers.