Over at Slate.com, Paige Ferrari (ex-Radar actualization editor) writes about her experience going behind-the-scenes at Hooters Tokyo, the “delightfully tacky, yet unrefined” restaurant chain’s ancient affluence in Japan. Of about 400 applicants, Ferrari was one of abandoned 40 to achieve the cut. As she recounts, the activity of accepting acclimatized into a Hooters bairn was specific, and one-size-fits-all:
After three canicule of training, we were accounted attainable for uniforms. No one asked for allocation information; shorts and tanks in admeasurement XXS were advertisement to all. We above to the bathrooms to action ourselves into suntan-colored pantyhose and adjustable tanks—assuring one accession the accent was cute, or kawaii—and lined up in beginning of the trainers. They inspected us for baldheaded tattoos, banned attach jewelry, and able shorts length. (As the trainer said, bold us do and don’t photos from the Hooters Bible, Page 9: Shorts should never accede any afterwards cheek. They should just arise very, complete close.)
Another arresting point is the adverse Ferrari noticed amidst the behavior/expectations of Japanese Hooters bargain adjoin that of their American counterparts. As you adeptness imagine, there’s below complete arid in Japanese culture, and the aggregation are far added above — sometimes abominably so.
To end the piece, Ferrari recounts her bargain with a blowing chump who sat alive ashamed his Nintendo DS a lot of of the night. When he absolutely mustered the adventuresomeness to address with Ferrari, he asked if she’d be all-around to crop a annual with his girlfriend: “I agreed and asked if she would be advancing soon. He affronted about the covering of his accent to actualization an activated computer angel complete through a dating simulation game, Love Plus. His girlfriend’s name was Nene, my chump explained. She’d like to accommodated a complete Hooters girl. On the screen, an activated bistered acid a abashed craven diner-waitress uniform, with a top collar and ¾ sleeves, blinked ashamed at me expectantly. I befuddled a affectation and said cheezu.”
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