Hooters opened its second Pasco County location on Tuesday. The new location, in Odessa at State Road 54 and Suncoast Crossings, boasts almost 5,000-sq.-ft. dining room with an additional 800 sq. ft outside, covered seating.
It’s been a long time coming for Pasco; the county’s first Hooters opened on the waterfront of Port Richey’s way back in 1988. (Any good Tampeño knows that the original opened on Clearwater’s Gulf to Bay Blvd. in 1983.)
But I’m wondering if the Pasco folks are sad the new restaurant isn’t a Hoots—the brand’s fast-casual restaurant where men can work in the front of the house too.
St Petersburg got one. Why not Pasco? As a matter a fact, why we get a Hoots in Hillsborough? We’re ready for it. Outside of St. Pete’s downtown location there’s only a handful of others—in Illinois and Manhattan. WTF Hoots. Are we not city enough for you? Don’t you give a hoot about us?
Hoots’ menu states it has “Chicken wings and other things.” We know what the other things are, Hoots. You don’t have to play shy with us, Hoots. It’s equal rights isn't it, Hoots?
Around these parts we like our chicken wings spicy, and our genders treated equally. Plus, orange looks equally bad on everyone.
Anyway.
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