I studied Hoters’ girls for a living-here’s what I learned about their well-being

It is the end of an era.

On March 31, Hoters appeared in the bankruptcy, not much after closing dozens of “less performance shops”.

Although the restaurant chain will not close its doors for good, it has announced plans to “get back”: to give its famous “bikini nights” and try to return to its “family roots”.

Hoolers was founded in 1983 in Clearwater, Florida, and became quickly known for its attractive and unpleasant waitress, most of which was female.

Its success generated a whole restaurant genre known as “Bashaurants”, and his proposal for re-Marca leaves the future of the famous Hoters girls.

But how much do we really know about the interior lives behind these wide bone?

Many women attracted Hoters for the promise of higher profits and flexible schedules, with some claiming to have won hundreds or even thousands of dollars per shift.

But the impetus for your bank accounts could sometimes reach a fairly high psychological price.

“Originally he was interested in studying Breasaurants because he could sense an interesting dynamic at stake,” Dawn Szymanski, a psychology professor at Tennessee University, wrote.

“On the one hand, it may feel good to be fulfilled by your appearance. On the other hand, I also wondered if these servers can constantly criticize.”

Through a series of studies, Szymanski and his team revealed a somewhat depressing reality behind the slogan “deliciously attractive, but not defined”.

First, they found that the executives of these restaurants often controlled greatly at the time of the appearance of their servers, which were given brochures with beauty instructions to their hair and nails, and practically prohibited to gain weight or change in any way.

In addition, they had to be lovely and pleasant at all times.

“They were commissioned that male customers feel special, so that they are their” personal entertainers “, as an interviewee said and never challenged,” said Szymanski.

Of course, this had a problem, especially when customers were rude and inappropriate, as they were often.

“It will probably not be a surprise that Hoters’ servers often find -sexual advances, sexual advances and other forms of sexual harassment by clients,” said Szymanski.

“But because their managers often tolerate this customer behavior, he created the added load of what psychologists call” double link “, situations in which contradictory messages make it impossible to respond correctly.”

The servers could not expect their colleagues either to defend themselves either, as the environment was provided to competitive behavior, as well as “gossiping, calling the name and escaping”, according to Szymanski.

Not surprisingly, his research found that this combination of factors can be a bust for mental health.

“Servers who work in settled restaurants sexually, such as Hoters and Twin Peaks, denounced more symptoms of depression, anxiety and disorderly food than those who work in other restaurants,” said Szymanski.

“In addition, they wanted to be thinner, they were more likely to control their weight and appearance, and they were more dissatisfied with their bodies.”

But it is not always bad.

In 2022, the server Madison Novo, who was crowned by Miss Housers that year, said that he was first inspired to work in the chain when a few girls in Hoters visited her in the hospital when she had a weird kidney failure.

He also returned against the common misconception about the brand and its servers.

“I know so many girls who study and think of their future,” Novo told Fox News. “They have dreams to become lawyers.