A number of broadcast outlets and newspapers --- stretching to London’s Daily Mail --- went all out on an Associated Press story yesterday about some eighth-grade students on a Baltimore field trip eating lunch at a restaurant that includes a children’s menu, notes Grumpy Editor.
So why the excitement?
The restaurant is Hooters, known for its busty servers.
After 100 Berwick (Pa.) Middle School students visit the National Aquarium in Baltimore, chaperones split them up for different restaurants because the group was too large for one eatery.
So 15 to 20 end up at a Hooters, one of the restaurant chain’s 455 locations in 44 states and a number of overseas nations from Argentina to Taiwan.
The menu at the casual beach-theme restaurants --- where servers wear orange shorts --- includes seafood, sandwiches, salads and spicy chicken wings.
Some editors running the story probably feel the restaurant selection was “shocking.”
But there are no complaints from parents, says Wayne Brookhart, school superintendent.
The Hooters Web site notes 68 percent of customers are male (probably including some of the “shocked” editors), most between 25 and 54 years old.
However, "10 percent of the parties we serve have children in them,” it adds, boosted by a children’s menu.
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