Has your team eaten dinner at Hooters in Atlanta?

[Brad Voracek]

This year we're going to Daddy D's and ... Something Chicken and Waffles. I forget the name. We've been to hooters before though, nothing wrong with the place.

[Lil' Lavery]

While 116 hasn't been to Hooters, I have been to the Hooters in the Atlanta Underground on a band trip.
I'd like to add another vote of confidence for Varsity as well. Great food, great prices, and (most importantly) quick. Absolutely great, I wish 116 was going this year.

[Mike]

Oh no! Breasts!


...and wings.

[Arefin Bari]

While I was in high school on team 108, we went to hooters every friday night. Elgin, that is as far you will get closed to seeing hot girls naked, we can understand why you want to go to hooter. =)

[technoL]

Last year we went to the Hooters in Atlanta for lunch on Wednesday and it was just like any other restaurant that we went to. They did start dancing at one point during the time we were there and a student went down to dance with them, but it was all good clean fun. Last year we also went to the Hooters near our hotel for dinner while in South Carolina for the Palmetto Regional.

If you're looking for controversy, the Hard Rock in Orlando is another story...

**Hey Tytus remember you were with us and the TechTigers when we went to Hooters in SC.

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I'd like to add another vote of confidence for Varsity as well. Great food, great prices, and (most importantly) quick.

The Varsity is one of those places you have to go or else you truly haven't been to Atlanta. Make sure to brush up on the Varsity Lingo to make your experience a lot of fun and make people turn their heads and look.

-Danny

[Elgin Clock]

Since this is straying from it's original purpose, but becoming a place to list some other alternate good places to eat which is cool with me, I have to mention Chick-Fil-A in the CNN center food court.

I bought a whole gallon of Iced Tea from them.. Like.. who has ever heard of such a thing from a fast food restaurant?? Being able to buy a whole gallon of a drink? Not me until 2004 that's for sure. lol

The only bad thing was that I took it back to my hotel room, and overnight it kind of umm.. fermented I guess.. lol
The sugar (because it was so sweet) reacted in a not so nice way with the tea and started to actually seperate.
It looked kind of disgusting, but was an interesting side effect and accidental experiment.

At the time I didn't know if it was mold in there from sitting out all night long in our relatively warm room, or just a seperation of tea and sugar, so I just dumped it down the drain.

Oh wells.

[technoL]

I bought a whole gallon of Iced Tea from them.. Like.. who has ever heard of such a thing from a fast food restaurant?? Being able to buy a whole gallon of a drink? Not me until 2004 that's for sure. lol

Yup, that's the South. (not Florida though!)

[65_Xero_Huskie]

A couple people from my team went a few years ago, but the team as a whole didnt go. It isnt really a bad place (the one there) But i think its up to the make-up of your team. If there are people who are "suitable" to go then sure, why not. But if not, i would suggest not going.

[CurseofDragon33]

Yep every year since Nationals has been held in Atlanta. Unless they get a hotel that is too far away from it I think they will go this year as well.

[mrmummert]

Hello..

When we went we did'nt go to Hooters...but we did go to the Varsity.
There are a lot of eating places at the CNN center. Also don't forget to
try to go to a Braves game. I recommend it. We had a great time there.

[KTorak]

Me and the group who came in early Wed went there last year and 50% of the team went out to eat there Thursday night. Side note, in ATL, our team hasn't ever really done stuff all together besides the nightly and morning team meetings because 99% of the students parents go so they wander off with them.

[BandChick]

Me & a couple of students & another college mentor walked there in 2004.
We had a blast, and hung out with some of the students from Team Resistance.
Our team tends to eat together, and Hooters is usually REALLY busy, which makes it hard to cram a team of 20 or so into their room on top of their already full-ness.

[JaneYoung]

There's some common sense that can be applied to making decisions about where and how teams want to represent themselves. If teams are wearing their team shirts, they are representing themselves and their school(s)/organizations. Do the schools/organizations have policies about these types of restaurants? I googled Hooters and I also googled Wikipedia's information. (We have Hooters here in Austin as well so I am familiar with the controversy.)

On a sidenote, during one of our robotics trips, the lead teacher and I were in front of the rest of the team, walking into a hamburger joint. It turned out to be a Hooters type restaurant. We turned around and asked the team to go back outside and make another choice in where we would eat that night.