Bristol's Hooters bar goes bust
A CONTROVERSIAL restaurant has gone out of business, just over a year after opening its doors to the public.
The Hooters restaurant, known for its skimpily-dressed waitresses, sparked protests when it opened in the Harbourside in October 2010.
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Hooters on Bristol Harbourside has closed.
But the Evening Post has learned that the Bristol restaurant has gone into liquidation and a creditors meeting will be held later this month.
The collapse has been triggered by a lack of trade, mounting debts and a long-running legal dispute with another company.
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The doors of the business have been closed and 39 full and part-time staff made redundant.
Hooters brand was started in America, built around a concept involving waitresses who wear a uniform of shorts and tight-fitting T-shirts. The Bristol restaurant was a franchise and its closure does not affect any other Hooters venues.
The Harbourside venture, pictured, attracted criticism from feminist groups who tried to stop it getting a licence. There were then complaints about a bikini competition and the serving of a "boob cake" shaped like a pair of naked breasts at a 12-year-old boy's birthday party, prompting an investigation by the city council. The doors shut for the final time on Monday.
Simon Thornton, from liquidators Houghton Stone Business Recovery, said: "On Monday, a board meeting of Gallus Management Company, decided that Hooters in Bristol should cease to trade with immediate effect, and instructed HSBR to convene a meeting of creditors to place the company into liquidation."
"The company director, Bill McTaggart, considered that one of the main reasons for the failure to achieve sufficient trade was the location of the restaurant in a relatively quiet part of the city centre."
Mr McTaggart was not available for comment yesterday.
The restaurant in Millennium Promenade is the latest business in the area to shut, following a Marks & Spencer supermarket on the same site and another restaurant, Carpe Diem.
Comments
by Charlespk
Saturday, January 05 2013, 10:14PM
“Open eyes!!
This is from Wednesday, February 08, 2012. :))”
by Attemptno9
Saturday, January 05 2013, 10:07PM
“Since when did October 2010 to January 2013 constitute 'just over a year' ??”
by Charlespk
Saturday, January 05 2013, 9:42PM
“They missed a trick Olympic year. . They should have called it 'SIX PACK'. . . With unisex service they'd have made a fortune. . Thisis Bristol don't forget! . . One door closes and another one opens! . It's crying out to be done! . Someone will do it.”
by arealbristol
Saturday, January 05 2013, 5:57PM
“It's a shame that 39 people lost their jobs.
Hope the rich trustafarian feminists are happy as they sip lattes with the rest of the plastic proliterians in Stokes Croft.”
by Bedgreens
Friday, January 04 2013, 9:03PM
“its all gone t*** up”
by J12345678
Friday, January 04 2013, 7:43PM
“Ah but Bristol has a Purple Flag award for nightlife, despite loads of places closing and no night buses up Whiteladies Road to NW Bristol. Never mind, could turn the joint into more student flats .. despite student applications going down ummm”
by katachua
Friday, January 04 2013, 2:56PM
“Can't Mopsus2 and Shas_J sort it out rather than playing cat and mouse with us?
And, Mopsus2, isn't one cat year equivalent to seven human? That's a large chunk of your lives you've waited to respond to this issue.”
by Shas_J
Friday, January 04 2013, 1:30PM
“12 months later Mospus provides feedback ...”
by mopsus2
Friday, January 04 2013, 12:27PM
“The case folded for lack of evidence. The 12 year old must be the first not to have a surviving photo of his birthday cake! And didn't the restaurant keep an order book for functions hosted there?”
by mopsus2
Friday, January 04 2013, 12:21PM
“Not surprised it didn't last long in Harbourside - which was built on the assumption that Bristol could support an infinite number of bars and which now looks rather forlorn.”