November 2005

 

 

US Restaurant chain ‘Hooters’ is soon to set up shop in New Zealand. Hooters is known in the US for requiring its buxom wait-staff to sign a document  acknowledging that “the work environment is one in which joking and innuendo based on female sex appeal is commonplace”, that they must “entertain” the customers, and that they do not find their “job duties, uniform requirements, or work environment to be offensive, intimidating, hostile or unwelcome.”