{"id":247964,"date":"2026-04-13T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:14:09","slug":"hooters-closes-again-after-reopening-in-corpus-christi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247964\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooters closes again after reopening in Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hooters restaurant in Corpus Christi closed its doors, with signage posted at the restaurant confirming the shutdown took effect at the end of business on Sunday, April 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/grand-re-opening-of-hooters\/503-a141bbf1-977a-49a1-aa4a-b2e2f5a3f94e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wing fans flock over to long-awaited grand re-opening of Hooters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Wing fans flock over to long-awaited grand re-opening of Hooters&quot;}\">Wing fans flock over to long-awaited grand re-opening of Hooters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The notice states the closure is part of a broader effort to \u201crevitalize and strengthen the Original Hooters brand across America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also thanks customers, employees, and community partners for their years of support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">3NEWS visited the location and encountered a manager who declined to be interviewed. A moving truck was seen on-site, showing the business had closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The restaurant reopened its doors back in 2024 after shutting down in 2021 following a fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The restaurant chain Hooters of America filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas in March 2025, aiming to restructure about $376 million in debt by selling company-owned restaurants to a franchise group backed by its founders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company since then has been under pressure from rising costs, including food, labor, and inflation, along with declining consumer spending in the casual dining sector, according to a report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/restaurant-chain-hooters-files-bankruptcy-enable-founder-led-buyout-rcna198980\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NBC News&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hooters restaurant in Corpus Christi closed its doors, with signage posted at the restaurant confirming the shutdown took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,94229],"class_list":["post-247964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-hooters-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}