A breastaurant is a restaurant that requires female waiting staff to be skimpily-dressed. The term dates from the early 1990s, after restaurant chain Hooters opened in the United States. The format has since been adopted by other restaurants, including Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, Twin Peaks, Ojos Locos, Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill, The WingHouse Bar & Grill, Redneck Heaven and Bombshells Bar & Grill.
Waitresses at Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill (Austin, 2010)
A waitress at Twin Peaks washes a customer's car (Austin, 2012).
Hooters employees in Shanghai, China, 2007
Hooters is the registered trademark used by two American restaurant chains: Hooters, Inc., based in Clearwater, Florida, and Hooters of America, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by the private investment firm Nord Bay Capital. The Hooters name is a double entendre referring to both a North American slang term for women's breasts and the logo.
Hooters in Morrisville, North Carolina, 2009
The interior of a Hooters restaurant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 2006 before being remodeled years later
Hooters restaurant in Alt-Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt, Germany
Hooters restaurant at night, Route One, Saugus, Massachusetts
