I work at Hooters – I can’t squeeze into the top but men say ‘skin-tight clothing’ is more important than my comfort
A SERVER at Hooters posted a behind-the-scenes video to show how difficult it is to put on the staff uniforms.
Though she had trouble getting the ultra-tight shirt over her head, men say she shouldn’t complain – after all, that’s “the whole point.”
Throughout the minute-long clip, Sara (@sarabellum24) struggled to squeeze her entire torso into her Hooters uniform T-shirt.
She began her TikTok video with her bra still visible as she tried to pull the top over her body.
“I’m not even playing right now,” she said, breathlessly yanking at the fabric. “Literally not a joke.”
At one point, she had the shirt covering most of her body, but the fabric bunched up around her ribs and constricted her even more.
“Hi, welcome to Hooters,” she said in a high, squeaky voice.
She also deadpanned that the problem was in the shirt’s size – that it was actually made for babies from “six to 12 months.”
Though she joked about the ridiculous process of putting on the shirt, she said the snug fit was “not even funny.”
Once she had the shirt on, Sara was the picture of cool. “Breathing is overrated,” she wrote in the caption.
Some other Hooters waitresses were quick to provide helpful hints to make getting dressed less painful for Sara.
“Step through the shirt,” one advised. “It will make putting it on so much easier.”
Others were simply impressed by Sara’s commitment, with one calling it “a whole workout just to get dressed.”
“My claustrophobia could never,” a woman confessed. “Literal panic attack.”
Not all the comments were supportive. One commenter scoffed at Sara’s visible struggle to get dressed.
“I mean, isn’t the whole point of Hooters girls skin-tight clothing?” the nitpicky comment read.
“If you want to be comfortable, probably work somewhere that doesn’t exploit you,” the pithy critic continued.
Another jumped on the bandwagon, labeling Sara the “head of the patriarchy police.”
But other commenters were quick to defend Sara, inundating the troll’s thread with red flag emojis.
“You didn’t even complain though,” one woman pointed out. “You literally took a video of your struggle to put the tight clothes on.”
“They’ve went downhill since I worked there,” one said. She claimed the uniforms “just keep getting smaller.”
Sara, for her part, responded with a video made for her troll.
She sat at a table at Hooters – with her uniform shirt covered by another layer – slowly eating a meal.
Rolling her eyes, she abruptly lunged at the camera, implying that if the commenter wanted a fight, Sara was ready.
One viewer pointed out that there was another aspect of the Hooters business model they were all forgetting.
“My bad,” the clever commenter wrote. “I thought the point of Hooters was to eat food.”