Hooters

We do have a really big party in the back room & it is unlimited wing night so the dining room is packed. It’s a bad experience to wait 1+ hours to get your food. Ridiculous!

What the heck is wrong with this place?
November 3, 2015 I was on the road the whole day, driving from GA to VA.
I’ve been to a Hooters perhaps 5 times in my life, and recall that they have pretty good food.
Stopped at Hooters in Gastonia, NC. Sat at the bar, as is my wont.
When asked if I would like something to drink, I requested water. Waitress brought back a glass of iced water with a twist. Yuck! Even the water was bad! I told her so and requested a bottle of water. I ordered the Philly Cheese Steak with extra mayo and onion rings. A few minutes later the same girl behind the bar apologizes and tells me they have no mayo. Crikey! Can you imagine 5 Guys not having any ground beef? So I ordered the Chicken Bacon Melt, $ 9.99.
The Chicken Bacon Melt was good. I would not order it again, but it was good. And the onion rings were acceptable.
The atmosphere of this place absolutely sucks. An alarm on the back door in the kitchen went off every time someone opened it. Very loud, obnoxious noise. They seemed in no hurry to quiet the alarm, but eventually did. Each of the several times it went off while I was sitting at the bar.
And the ringer on the telephone must have been set on max volume. It would wake the dead. I understand that at night they might need it loud when the place gets raucous. (But I have a hard time imagining they have sufficient clientele to create much noise.)
The waitress behind the bar — Katherine, was very pleasant and attentive. None of the above was her fault, although she should have been able to turn down the ringer on the phone. In my 60s, my hearing is far from optimal. But that phone was unbearable.
Next time I’m on the road for a full day I might again eat at a Hooters, but not the one in Gastonia, NC.

Went there on Saturday night with a party to watch the UFC Fight. We literally had to seat our selves since no one bothered. Drinks were brought out quickly and order was taken quickly. We ordered a order of boneless strips in the Buffalo sauce and they were good. My husband ordered 10 wings in the teriyaki sauce and he said that the sauce was gross flavored but this is not the biggest issue here. The first wing he tried to eat he stated that it tasted funny and he couldn’t barely pull the meat off the bone so he moved on to the next wing and ate half of it before realizing that it tasted horrible as well and after further inspection realized that it was Completely RAW! He checked all of his wings and they were all RAW! That is Horrific needless to say! We quickly told the waitress who said oh ok sorry and took them and walked away. SHOCKING! After about 15 minutes the manager came over and offered to have some more made. Ummmnnn NO THANK YOU! My husband actually started feeling sick and went to the restroom and proceeded to throw up. Upon coming back the ticket was given to us and included his wings on it. WTH? So I called the manager over who took care of just his raw meal. Before we left a groupd of our friends were leaving as well because both of their chicken came out raw also and one of them was getting sick! I will be contacting the health department in the morning immediately! This can kill someone with salmonella! What is this was served to a kid and they didn’t know it was raw? SHAME ON YOU HOOTERS of GASTONIA! Never coming back here again!

Yeah, this Hooters leaves a lot to be desired. If it closed, I don’t think many would notice. I mean, it’s a Hooters. You KNOW what you’re getting the moment you walk through the door. Although, this one is a little less on the service side. The food is good, (good, not great) but the girls, MGR., service, sucks. Better hope everything is okay when you get there, b/​c there’s no fixing it.
Unless you’re going for beer & to flirt, keep going.

I actually go for the boneless wings. The T & A isn’t bad either. The ladies are all friendly & some will sit down to talk with you for a while.

All the waitresses were sitting at tables with customers. Finally saw us after we turned to leave. Only two of us. Man and woman. That means you get less attention. The floors were super sticky. Gross. We had more than 4 different people come to our table. Simple order of wings. Messed up order. We asked for sauce on the side. It’s not sauce. It’s like cold flavored butter paste. It was gross. No wonder hooters are closing down everywhere

Myself and a group of 6 others went for all you can eat wings (Monday night special). It was our first time at this location. No one greeted us when we (only 4 of us at this point) entered. Finally a girl told us in passing «yall can sit here» and pointed to the table right in front of the door. We asked for a bigger table because more people would be joining us. She told us that there were not enough waitresses to take on one of the bigger tables in the back section. My fiancé said «I guess the rest of us will just sit on the floor.» Our waitress laughed and walked away.
*mind you, there were 5 waitresses tending all of 12 tables. When I was a waitress, servers were assigned 4 – 5 tables EACH… Maybe the low intelligence of hooters girls makes this impossible. But I digress*
The rest of our party arrived and we squeezed them all into the table we were seated at. We ordered a pitcher of beer and a round of shots. It took 20min before all of that was on the table. She messed up 3 out of 6 shots (and charged us for her mistakes at the end of the night), and getting the correct drinks took another 10min.
When we tried to flag her down to order food (RAVENOUS at this point, almost an hour into sitting at this table), she held up her hand and told us «hold on», not stopping to even look our way. One of our group got his first round of wings 15min before the rest of us. When we finally got our first round, it was half wrong. Surprise surprise. We tried to put our second order in, but she was so rude we found the «manager», If you could call anyone so low class and unprofessional a manager. She cut us off in the middle of our explanation, rolling her eyes, and told us she could give us the GM’s number and we could take it up with him. Hello, we just want the drinks we ordered and more than 4 half cold God damn wings for $ 13…
This place is a joke. I’ll save you from the rest of the experience.
I usually give people the benefit of the doubt and I would say that if someone came in and really gave this team of people a speech on being a team, being courteous and attentive, and helped them build up their confidence as capable waitresses that it could be a totally different place… But no. I can’t even say that of this place.

I’ve been to this place once so take it for what’s it’s worth. It was a Sunday afternoon during football season… They had 4 waitresses for the whole restaurant. We waited 10 mins for our waitress to get our drink orders. Then it took another 10 mins to get our pitcher of beer and she didn’t pour our beers for us… She dropped off the pitcher and mugs and walked away. We finally ordered after we flagged her down and she came back twice to confirm our order of wings that she already wrote down. We waited over 30 mins for our wings and on our second pitcher of beer, she bought only 2 mugs for 3 of us. We saw 2 different groups of people sit down, wait 10 – 15 mins, and get up and leave after no one came to take their order. Our order did come out hot and correct so there was obviously some kind of shortage that day but our waitress never mentioned anything about it. Terrible service and subpar «talent» for Hooters… And I’ve been to 15 – 20 Hooters from San Francisco to Wilmington, NC

So I wouldn’t normally review something that’s pretty much a universally known thing, but I think the Hooter’s in Gastonia deserves its own review.
This place is one of the few in Gastonia to actually get a good seat for watching a game. You usually have to get here a tad bit early to grab a good seat, but they always have every game on plus the audio, which is key. The place is filled with your normal Gastonia crowd, which can be good or bad depending on how you view it. They have tvs outside on their patio, but for some reason they never turn these things on. Being a patio lover, it kills me every time its a nice day out & the outside tvs are blank.
So the Gastonia Hooter’s is much like your typical Hooter’s, but not a bad place to catch a game since there aren’t many places to do so in town. The wings are pretty good, but the prices for both beer & food can add up quickly. The waitresses are always nice, but then again, I think they are at every Hooters.