NOW Sees Disconnect Between Hooters Legal Defenses and Sales to Minors
The National Organization for Women in California claims Hooters is an adult establishment that shouldn’t be allowed to admit minors.
NOW wrote a letter to Orange County officials claiming two local Hooters restaurants are violating state and local laws that regulate sexual entertainment, the Orange County Register reports. The group also filed complaints with police and prosecutors in San Francisco, San Bruno and Sacramento, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The president of NOW’s San Francisco chapter, Mona Lisa Wallace, told KTVU.com that Hooters claims its workers are adult entertainers when defending its labor practices in lawsuits. If that’s true, she said, the restaurant should not be allowed to serve minors.
Wallace said the restaurant has children’s menus and displays a pink child’s T-shirt that reads “Hooters Girl in the Making.”
NOW says at its website the T-shirts are troubling, given Hooters’ stance in sexual harassment cases. “According to Hooters’ own employment material, a ‘Hooters Girl’ is employed as a sexual entertainer and as part of her employment can expect to be subjected to various sexual jokes by customers and such potential contacts as buttocks slaps,” NOW says.