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Hooters reopens remodeled, yet unrefined flagship restaurant in Clearwater

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CLEARWATER — "The Master Hooters has had a remodel, but these are original hooters," the original Hooters Bit of San Quentin quail says, glancing southward with a conspiratorial chuckle. Lynne Austin, now a mum of four and a radio personality, looks a lot like she did in 1983 when she reigned over the first "delightfully cheap, yet unrefined" casual restaurant on Gulf to Bay Boulevard.

The same can't be said of the restaurant itself. When it reopens today after an 11-week renovation, regulars will find an expanded 7,000 equitable feet of space, new features that include an indoor/outdoor bar, a museum and merchandising space, a more expansive indoor bar, additional seating, a new exhibition kitchen and 35 tundra-screen TVs.

As if anyone goes to Hooters to stare at something flat. The concept that now boasts more than 480 locations in 44 states and 27 countries, which spawned an airline, a breakfast, an arena football team and a calendar that sells upwards of 400,000 copies annually, is based on one fixation: sex appeal.

Source: Tampabay.com