Stickman says Hooters Silom is closing...

[fforest1]

Stickmans latest...

 

Just around the corner from Patpong, at the large Hooters branch on Silom Road some of the girls are saying that it will close at the end of this month. Girls at the Sukhumvit soi 15 branch have been saying the same thing…so it really does look like Silom Hooters is about to be goneburger. Apparently, the girls at the Silom branch will have the option to work in other branches of Hooters in Bangkok, if they so wish. Why is it closing? No idea, but with rumours of a 7-figure (yes, SEVEN) monthly rent, that’s a lot of burgers and beer to sell just to break even.

[fforest1]

I think Hooters food is ok but pretty expensive especially for drinks.... 

Edited September 10, 2019 by fforest1

[timendres]

Every time I have walked past the place, it was empty.

[Vacuum]

2 minutes ago, fforest1 said:

I think Hooters food is ok but pretty expensive

But you're free to look at their hooters whilst eating.

[ThaiBunny]

I've always thought the name was mis-spelled

[tabarin]

Never understood why they opened shop in Thailand in the first place, why would you waste time in Hooters if there are girl bars.

Last time in Nana I saw like 4-5 guys sitting there, looking depressed and lonely, with hooter girls dancing around them.
While me across, sitting with 20 bar girls, ALONE, getting all the fun and attention. Guess it was cheaper for them to only buy for themselves in hooters.

Personally, the girls in there were nothing special either, just the arrogant ones that look a bit better, could as well visit a shopping mall for that.
 

Edited September 10, 2019 by tabarin

[PhilippBKK]

Destination Properties.........

[BobbyL]

Not surprised. I have been in there a few times and it has always been about 20% full. 

[fforest1]

A month ago there were 3 branches of the American boobs and beers chain Hooters operating in Bangkok – Sukhumvit soi 15, Nana and Silom. Tomorrow there will be none. The soi 15 branch of Hooters closed a couple of weeks ago and the Nana and Silom branches close tomorrow. Hooters attracted a lot of comments when it opened in Bangkok, many saying it wouldn’t make it with the relatively high prices one concern and the fact that boobs and beers has a lot of competition in Bangkok. And time has shown those who said that Hooters wouldn’t last were right. There were many complaints, and landlords complained they were not paid on time. It shouldn’t come as a great surprise with the writing on the wall for quite some time – Hooters Phnom Penh was abandoned after the builders weren’t paid by the same Thailand-based company which operated Hooters in Bangkok. Back to Bangkok, the space that was the soi 15 branch of Hooters – the first Hooters in Bangkok if I recall correctly – is being renovated and might reopen as another chicken place with sexy girls. It won’t be called Hooters.

[sunnyboy2018]

Horrible place, horrible food, horrible idea. Simply no need for this kind of anodyne but pretending to be sexy, yank outlet in Thailand. It does not have one redeeming aspect to it. I resented the way it displaced the Golden Bar at the Nana Hotel. A characterless place for characterless people. In Pattaya,  because of it cheap roofless design, the noise from Hooters disturbs hotels as far as Soi 13.

[madmen]

 good! They shut down a perfectly good fun and cheap bar for an overpriced hamburger joint

[setbkk]

Hooters in USA makes really stupid business decisions, much like their decision to open up in SE Asia.  Examples:  1) Hooters Airline - incredibly stupid, women and serious business travelers would not fly on it (that is a lot of your market).  Out of business very quickly.  2) Hooters hotel/casino in Las Vegas.  They bought or leased a second rate hotel/casino off the strip and did minimal renovations. Stayed their once, rooms were cheap but really poor quality.  Common areas were real basic.  Hard to compete in LV with that kind of property.

 

Probably run by a bunch of good old boys that think T&A is the solution for everything.  Glad to see they are out of Bangkok, would never go there or franchise places like Hard Rock Cafe.  I prefer the dumpy little beers along soi Nana. 

[Thainess]

1 hour ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Just around the corner from Patpong, at the large Hooters branch on Silom Road 

None of them had large Hooters. That was the whole problem, and in fact one of the (several) problems with Thai women in general, IMHO (in my hooter-loving opinion).

[kingofthemountain]

2 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Horrible place, horrible food, horrible idea. Simply no need for this kind of anodyne but pretending to be sexy, yank outlet in Thailand. It does not have one redeeming aspect to it. I resented the way it displaced the Golden Bar at the Nana Hotel. A characterless place for characterless people. In Pattaya,  because of it cheap roofless design, the noise from Hooters disturbs hotels as far as Soi 13.

I am pretty sure the noise from Hooters is not going to perturb for too long in Pattaya.

The place is empty most of the time, and with the number one location they have

just in front of beach road the rent is probably not cheap, so the days are counted.

[sunnyboy2018]

30 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

I am pretty sure the noise from Hooters is not going to perturb for too long in Pattaya.

The place is empty most of the time, and with the number one location they have

just in front of beach road the rent is probably not cheap, so the days are counted.

The bands,  TV and music make the noise not the customers.  Hotels like sandy springs and the Whitehouse have been adversely affected and have lost customers. 

[moontang]

Sukhumvit was built by cheap and good, and destroyed by corporate greed that can't deliver a decent plate of Phad Thai or sometimes even a cold beer.  Good riddance. 

[kingofthemountain]

6 hours ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

The bands,  TV and music make the noise not the customers...

I knew it

i said that the whole was going to close soon

[Kaoboi Bebobp]

After watching the (disgracefully bad) AFL grand final game (by an 89-point margin) at the Sportsman on soi 13 on Saturday, a friend and I decided to do a tour of Soi 4. Haven't been there in many years. It was a fun change. Hooters was the least busy place on the soi at mid-afternoon. Maybe 5-6 guys spotted around the perimeter standups. Hooters looked utterly funless. Meanwhile Big Dog's and Stumble Inn were hopping and way WAY more fun.

 

I thought the idea of opening Hooters in Thailand was one of the most ludicrous ideas in a country with no shortage of ludicrous ideas. 

[fforest1]

The Hooters brand in Asia is pretty much going extinct.....All the Japan Hooters just closed along with a bunch of others they are down to one in Jakarta and 3 in Thailand and thats it.....

I expect the Pattaya Hooters it be following soon......They are going to have a whole load of free food stock from the 3 closed Bangkok Hooters that will have to go some where so they may leave the Pattaya Hooters open longer to sell it off.....

[JimmyJ]

10 hours ago, setbkk said:

Hooters in USA makes really stupid business decisions, much like their decision to open up in SE Asia.  Examples: ...2) Hooters hotel/casino in Las Vegas.  They bought or leased a second rate hotel/casino off the strip and did minimal renovations. Stayed their once, rooms were cheap but really poor quality.  Common areas were real basic.  Hard to compete in LV with that kind of property.

 

 

I thought of this also as soon as I saw the headline.

 

Hey, let's takeover a casino in Las Vegas, and introduce a novel idea - scantily clad barmaids!

 

A good idea 70 years ago.

 

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by JimmyJ

[fforest1]

5 hours ago, fforest1 said:

The Hooters brand in Asia is pretty much going extinct.....All the Japan Hooters just closed along with a bunch of others they are down to one in Jakarta and 3 in Thailand and thats it.....

I expect the Pattaya Hooters it be following soon......They are going to have a whole load of free food stock from the 3 closed Bangkok Hooters that will have to go some where so they may leave the Pattaya Hooters open longer to sell it off.....

Correction.....I guess Hooters filed for bankruptcy in Japan but there are still a few open there... 

[blackcab]

A troll post and a reply to it have been removed.

[IvorLott]

The whole idea had a 'coals to Newcastle' or 'sand/oil to the Arabs' feel to it. There was little need for such a place in Thailand. The novelty was interesting for a while, the lasses pretty as you'd expect but there's no shortage of pretty ladies in Thailand as it is without the over priced food and drinks.

Personally an hour 'pervying' the pretty promo girls at Gullivers (or anywhere that has them) always made more sense as at least one can have a laugh with them as opposed to the often aloof ladies at Hooters...

[overherebc]

On 9/30/2019 at 12:08 AM, fforest1 said:

A month ago there were 3 branches of the American boobs and beers chain Hooters operating in Bangkok – Sukhumvit soi 15, Nana and Silom. Tomorrow there will be none. The soi 15 branch of Hooters closed a couple of weeks ago and the Nana and Silom branches close tomorrow. Hooters attracted a lot of comments when it opened in Bangkok, many saying it wouldn’t make it with the relatively high prices one concern and the fact that boobs and beers has a lot of competition in Bangkok. And time has shown those who said that Hooters wouldn’t last were right. There were many complaints, and landlords complained they were not paid on time. It shouldn’t come as a great surprise with the writing on the wall for quite some time – Hooters Phnom Penh was abandoned after the builders weren’t paid by the same Thailand-based company which operated Hooters in Bangkok. Back to Bangkok, the space that was the soi 15 branch of Hooters – the first Hooters in Bangkok if I recall correctly – is being renovated and might reopen as another chicken place with sexy girls. It won’t be called Hooters.

Maybe an Oz company can open and call it

'Chunky Chooks' ?

[Jajazazajaja]

Most of the times I’ve been in (Friday and Sat nights) it’s been chock full.

 

however the music was so loud I couldn’t taste my food. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable in a bar.

 

i had to go round the corner to Star of Light whilst my hearing recovered..

[Just Weird]

Silom branch is still open, plenty of customers today. 

[camble]

Hooters Nana is still open, the Hooters on Soi 15 is undergoing renovations re-opening mid-month.  This is fake news and stickman edited it out.

[Dumbastheycome]

Just an indicator of the  change in the market.

But it would be interesting to learn of the strategies local operators of  tourist night life venues (or if they actually have  any) in providing a  market that appeals to the new age of  Asian tourism  within Asia and Thailand  specifically.

The Chinese  and Indian tourists present quite  different  preferences  to the previous generally generic predominant European  proliferate style of  venue such as it  is/was even if in many instances  was OTT.

There will be objections  raised  by the long term or  habitual  visitors  from Western origins who will feel  deprived and reject the reality that any  market need  move  where the income is derived  or at worst  abandon  a market that is  not sufficient  any more.

So back to the  question of  what that will  be?  In the medium  term I would  look to  the  Indian  market because it is  projected to  become  a boom time era greater than  the  Chinese.

I seriously  doubt that it will see numerous venues  with  belly dancers and Pandit Ravi Shankar music with   onion bhaji  to encourage the consumption  of  beer.

More likely will  see  an increase  in calls to Uber or Grab  to shuttle people to  unspecified locations  for exactly the same thing Westerners willingly although with objection pay a  bar fine and do same same in outcome. And  before  departure those who  came with a  wife will be in attendance  at a specified gold shop to purchase and  pay for peace. The Pope does not  have a monopoly on sin tax ! 

 

 

 

 

 

[toast1]

The Soi 4 Golden Bar was always packed, they had a license to print money.
Could not understand the logic of replacing it with a tacky, expensive corporate chain.

 

Not surprisingly, it was generally as quiet as a Buddhist monastery retreat, I would see green tourists in there sometimes, looking bored.

 

Sure The Golden Bar was a sleazy, dirty, run down dump, but it was our sleazy, dirty, run down dump.

And we liked it!

 

 

Edited October 4, 2019 by toast1

[neeray]

9 hours ago, camble said:

Hooters Nana is still open, the Hooters on Soi 15 is undergoing renovations re-opening mid-month.  This is fake news and stickman edited it out.

As a rule, "closed for renovations" usually means "scrambling for new sucker investors". In many cases, the place never reopens (couldn't find the suckers).