Atlanta-based Hooters restaurant chain, known for skimpy wait-staff outfits, files for bankruptcy protection

July 27, 2017, shows a Hooters sign at a restaurant in Hialeah, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

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This story was updated on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 6:02 p.m.

Hooters is going bust.

The U.S. restaurant chain, known for chicken wings and its skimpy “Hooters Girls” wait-staff outfits, has filed for bankruptcy protection. HOA Restaurant Group filed the motion for Chapter 11 protection Monday in the North Texas Bankruptcy Court in Dallas.