Hooters has shuttered all of its restaurants in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Minnesota, leaving those four states without a single location as the wing chain continues working through a bankruptcy-driven restructuring that began last year.
The chain’s last three Massachusetts locations — in Dedham, Saugus and West Springfield — closed last month, according to Boston.com. The restaurants were operated by Hooters of New York/New England, a Connecticut-based franchise group that had run Hooters locations in the Northeast for more than three decades. In a statement, the franchise group said the closures were part of an effort to “focus, revitalize and strengthen” the Hooters brand nationally. The shutdowns followed the closure of a Shrewsbury, Mass., location in May, ending the chain’s run in the state entirely.
New York lost its last Hooters restaurant in June, when the location on Wolf Road in Colonie, near Albany, closed after a 15-year run, according to B95.5. That closure followed the earlier shutdown of the chain’s remaining New York City-area locations in Queens, Midtown Manhattan, Fresh Meadows and Farmingdale.
Connecticut’s last restaurant, in Wethersfield, and Minnesota’s final location, at the Mall of America in Bloomington, both closed in March.
Michigan has been reduced to a single operating restaurant, in Saginaw, after its Taylor location near Detroit closed last year, according to a Detroit-area outlet.
The closures trace back to Hooters of America’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on March 31, 2025, when the company cited mounting debt but maintained it intended to keep operating, saying its restaurants were “here to stay” as it worked to restructure, according to Boston.com’s report on the filing. As part of the restructuring, a group of original Hooters founders agreed to acquire roughly 100 company-owned locations in states including Florida, Texas, Georgia, Indiana and Illinois.
Hooters, founded in Clearwater, Fla., in 1983, still operates more than 420 restaurants across 29 countries.
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