The irony of Hooters in Las Vegas
Jan. 11th, 2011 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellI'm the sort of person who'd be normally have nothing to do with Hooters. Their lone San Francisco location sticks out like an archaic sexist relic, situated solely to pull in Fisherman's Wharf tourists from other parts of the country and provide solace to bridge-and-tunnel post-frat kids who failed to pick up women at North Beach clubs.
However, my friend's employer found her one of the few remaining hotel rooms in Las Vegas for CES, and she offered me the spare bed -- at the Hooters Hotel and Casino.
I sheepishly told the taxi attendant where to take me, and he shouted it to the driver as I stood there slightly mortified. I'm That Douchebag who booked a room at Hooters.
However, within a few hours I realized that Hooters is actually one of the least sexist hotels on the Las Vegas strip. Let's review:
Women working the casino floor as most casinos wear some minimal sparkly (and probably itchy) uniform that covers just enough of the naughty bits to make them street legal. They also walk around all day in sparkly and undoubtedly uncomfortable super-high heels serving drinks to gamblers. Some casinos now have pole dancers strategically placed at the blackjack tables to distract the gamblers.
At Hooters, the women wear either a tight-but-skin-covering t-shirt or some black-and-white striped shirt, and shorts. They wear white sneakers. They don't have to pole-dance. Overall, their required dress and behavior is quite tame by Vegas standards. They have a more relaxed down-home southern atmosphere compared to the rest of Vegas's often pretentious glitz.
Their famous chicken wings consisted primarily of corn syrup and batter. The chicken breast sandwich I opted for instead was sliced 90% of the way and then flipped so that it formed a pair of breasts. They do handle their branding reasonably well.
Not everything is always as it seems. Sometimes up is down, and sometimes Hooters is the least sexist place around.
However, my friend's employer found her one of the few remaining hotel rooms in Las Vegas for CES, and she offered me the spare bed -- at the Hooters Hotel and Casino.
I sheepishly told the taxi attendant where to take me, and he shouted it to the driver as I stood there slightly mortified. I'm That Douchebag who booked a room at Hooters.
However, within a few hours I realized that Hooters is actually one of the least sexist hotels on the Las Vegas strip. Let's review:
Women working the casino floor as most casinos wear some minimal sparkly (and probably itchy) uniform that covers just enough of the naughty bits to make them street legal. They also walk around all day in sparkly and undoubtedly uncomfortable super-high heels serving drinks to gamblers. Some casinos now have pole dancers strategically placed at the blackjack tables to distract the gamblers.
At Hooters, the women wear either a tight-but-skin-covering t-shirt or some black-and-white striped shirt, and shorts. They wear white sneakers. They don't have to pole-dance. Overall, their required dress and behavior is quite tame by Vegas standards. They have a more relaxed down-home southern atmosphere compared to the rest of Vegas's often pretentious glitz.
Their famous chicken wings consisted primarily of corn syrup and batter. The chicken breast sandwich I opted for instead was sliced 90% of the way and then flipped so that it formed a pair of breasts. They do handle their branding reasonably well.
Not everything is always as it seems. Sometimes up is down, and sometimes Hooters is the least sexist place around.
