Hooters on the highway closes its doors
For the third time since July 4, a national restaurant chain has closed the doors of its Rehoboth location. Open for little over a year, Hooters in the Midway Shopping Center closed its doors the last week of September. The restaurant opened in July 2018.
This location has been home to many restaurants over the years – Rag Tops, Crystal Palace, Roadhouse Steak Joint, Old Bay, Delaware Distilling Company and Roadhouse Bar & Grill. There has been no word as to what will happen with the space in the future.
This is the second failed Hooters in Rehoboth. For many years, there was a Hooters on the second floor of First Street Station in downtown Rehoboth Beach. That location is now the home to Cooter Browns Twisted Southern Kitchen.
In July, TGI Friday in the Safeway shopping center closed. In early September, Ruby Tuesday closed its doors.
According to www.Hooters.com, the chain first opened in 1983 in Clearwater, Fla., and now has more than 420 restaurants in 29 countries. According to the website, the chain’s closest restaurants to the Cape Region are now in Newark and Ocean City, Md.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
