Hooters Dubai plans in Middle East NOT deflated after all
FLORIDA, 6 Aug. 2007, (Arabisto.com): Atlanta Ga.-based Hooters of America Inc. will be opening up a location in Dubai after all. According to Harry Grindrod, director of Hooters European Franchising, the company still intends to open a Dubai location in the Middle East…. “We are still planning on it,” Grindrod said in an email to Arabisto.com. “The problem is that the present contractor can’t give us a good timeline for completion.”…. It’s unclear how many branches are being planned or where the locations will be. Grindrod declined to comment further and didn’t respond to subsequent emails.
Now this is something I’m going to have to see to believe. Dubai may well be perhaps the most thoroughly Westernized country in the Middle East, but it’s still a country with a majority-Muslim population…and the Hooter’s concept is not something that one would think would play well anywhere in the Islamic world.
The biggest question, of course, if whether or not the servers in Dubai will be wearing the signature butt shorts and tight tank-tops…or perhaps a reasonable, though uncharacteristic, compromise?
Cue the angry hordes in 4…3…2….
