Hooters Celebrates 40 Years in 2023, Celebration Starts with Release of the 2023 Hooters Calendar
The 2023 Hooters Calendar is now available at your local Hooters. Chicago area employees featured in the calendar include Iza Glinkowski (October 2022) who works at the Downers Grove Hooters location and Tanna Patino (December 2022) who works at Orland Park Hooters location. There are over 15 other Chicago area Hooters Girls also featured throughout the calendar and pull out poster.
During the entire month of October, Hooters is holding their annual "Give a Hoot" fundraising campaign. Donations at the 22 Hooters locations in Chicagoland and Tampa Bay will support Moffitt Cancer Center. There are multiple opportunities to support the cause including purchasing a 2023 Hooters Calendar. $1 of every calendar sold helps fight breast cancer. The calendars are available for purchase for $14.99 and include over $100 in coupons.
The calendar is celebrating Hooters' 40th Anniversary in 2023. The first Hooters Calendar was released fall 1985, two years after the first Hooters opened in Clearwater. All of the 200 ladies in the calendar work at Hooters restaurants across the country and were selected from thousands of candidates.
Ways the community can help and join their local Hooters restaurant in the fight against breast cancer include:
$1 of every Hooters Calendar sold locally supports Moffitt Cancer Center.
Add their name to a PERSONALIZED ENDOWMENT CARD to hang up in the restaurant or take home.
Enjoy a PINK DRINK created to raise awareness and funds.
PINK UP their check when you visit Hooters. Add a cash or credit card donation to their check.
Since 2002, HMC Hospitality Group has donated over $989,311 to Moffitt Cancer Center through "Give a Hoot" and other charitable commitments. The program is held annually in honor of HMC Hospitality Group's own Kelly Jo Dowd, who was a Hooters Girl, 1995 Hooters Calendar Cover Girl and ultimately the Palm Harbor restaurant General Manager. Dowd succumbed to breast cancer in 2007. Hooters has raised more than $8 million over time to support the fight against breast cancer, much of it through the Kelly Jo Dowd Breast Cancer Research Fund benefiting the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
"We are committed to raising awareness and funds to support breast cancer research. It was important to Kelly Jo Dowd that we raise awareness and help find a cure for breast cancer. Our annual efforts to support Moffitt Cancer Center and their Breast Oncology Program are making a difference," said HMC Hospitality Group Chief Marketing Officer Denise Williams.
Chicago area Hooters locations:
Hooters of Countryside (5925 S. LaGrange Road, Countryside)
Hooters of Downers Grove (1303 Butterfield Road, Downers Grove)
Hooters of Fox Valley (4395 Fox Valley Center Drive, Aurora)
Hooters of Joliet (3301 Hennepin Drive, Joliet)
Hooters of Lansing (17060 S. Torrence Avenue, Lansing)
Hooters of Melrose Park (2503 W. North Avenue, Melrose Park)
Hooters of Oak Lawn (9159 S. Cicero Avenue, Oak Lawn)
Hooters of Orland Park (15300 S. LaGrange Road, Orland Park)
Hooters of O'Hare (8225 W. Higgins Road, Chicago)
Hooters of Schaumburg (1110 N. Perimeter Drive, Schaumburg)
Hooters on Wells Street (660 N. Wells Street, Chicago)
HMC Hospitality Group owns and operates 22 Hooters Restaurants and 5 Hoots locations in Tampa Bay and Chicagoland. For information about HMC Hospitality Group please visit www.originalhooters.com or follow us at Twitter @originalhooters, Instagram @originalhooters and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/originalhooters.