Story Created:
Oct 10, 2008
Story Updated:
Oct 10, 2008
The blowback pours in after yesterday's blog on Hooters.
Well, "pour" is a little strong. I did get some e-mails, though and in a break with tradition folks are agreeing with my take that a Brookfield alderman's worries about a Hooters being too close to an elementary school is a bunch of folderal.
In case you didn't hear, the Hooters in question would go along Blue Mound Road at Calhoun where Pedro''s used to be.
Luke wrote one response:
I just needed to comment about these shenanigans in Brookfield regarding Hooters. I was reading your blog and got worked up again... I am quite familiar with the area. In fact, Calhoun road is in the process of being expanded into a four lane road. Kids from elementary school should not be crossing the street around there. On top of it, there is no reason that a kid should be walking around those strip malls after school. It just is not safe...the school is set so far back off the road, I can't imagine even the sign will be visable from the school.
So, in the end, this is another business on Bluemound Road and the school is just another poor excuse.
This restaurant will not fail. I predict that sales will be through the roof. Deal with it Brookfield and reap the tax benefits and community service of this national chain restaurant.
Thanks for letting me rant!!
And then, there's Deb:
Oh my, the land of Brookfield Babies... walk past Hooters? you can hardly drive down Bluemound... LOL Brookfield kids, walk? Rarely.
And before that place was Pedros, it was Bombay Bicycle Club. A huge rep for being an upscale pick-up bar mascarding behind a resturant with so-so food and bad service...Sounds like someone's up for re-election to me. At least Hooters is regulated by the city. Perhaps it would be better time spent to make sure Brookfield has it's codes in a row. My son was 14 when a friend's family took the little men to Hooters' for a burger. He got a signed pair of Hooter's boxer shorts, signed by all the waitresses. He was all aglow and for days. And the interesting thing was he said the waitresses didn't have bazoongas at all, but they were female and paid him some attention and he was 14. Those boxers were stapled to his bedroom wall all through high school, and now they sit in honor in the sacred drawer, never to be washed, always to bring a memory. He has good upbringing, I'm not worried.
Wow. Moms weren't like that when I was growing up.
Got a take on this...or anything else I've bloviated about here? Drop me a line: mueller@620wtmj.com.
