Hooters

My favorite casual restaurant in Destin. Great bartenders love the selection of beers on tap! Great place to catch your favorite team on all those TV’S! Try the Buffalo Shrimp awesome beer was cold too!

Pretty sad when a Hooters gets two stars. We were tired and hungry after a day at the beach and thought it was a slam dunk when we drove by the Hooters. Well… I should have looked at Unilocal reviews first. The reviews are pretty indicative of our service.
We walked in on a Friday night and it was only half full. So service should be great! Wrong!!!
We met our waitress (Devrie also known on her name tag as «Orangello»). This is where our experience came crashing to a burn. Devrie was obviously interested in anything else than being a waitress. I can say this because I waited tables in college and the better service you give the better chance of higher tips. She was a robot asking for order and never smiled or even attempted to be friendly ONCE! We had to track her down in a slow restaurant to refill our drinks.
The kids had boneless wings and I had traditional wings and fries. My better half had the Texas Philly cheesesteak. Her sandwich was not just horrible but as she said «gross». I had a bite and agreed.
The only reason for the two stars instead of one star is that my wings were good. As well as the kids. Hey Hooters always knows how to make good wings. They invented it.
My tip reflected the crappy, unfriendly and rushed service I got from our waitress. In a busy tourist town you could make so much extra money on tips if you just faked caring.

This Hooters very clean and had very nice staff. The service was fast and the food tasted great. Taylor was awesome and made the experience a good one. Even my wife enjoyed herself with the food and the great service. I have been to other Hooters restaurants and the service was slow and the food was not prepared very well, but at this particular restaurant, everything was great. We will be back just because of Taylor.

Bad attitude bartenders. Short pours.
Slow service. Bartenders are pissy!
Not coming back. Ruined Hooters experience!

Typical hooters with great boneless wings. Ordered to go and it took about 20 minutes so a little slow but everything was correct and the bartender was polite and efficient.

Service here is terrible. The bartender should be busing tables and not waiting on customers. Spend your money elsewhere.

Terrible, terrible service. I wonder if the waitress even had a high school diploma. Can we say clueless? We were first seated in the farthest corner of the restaurant. I did bathe, after waiting, and waiting, and still
Waiting, my wife found us seats up front. At least we could hear ourselves think here. Our waitress’s, a petite young lady who didn’t shave today, finally appeared. Sigh… How hard is it to ensure wings and fries arrive at the same time, not ten minutes apart. Our «waitress» didn’t even bring us our food, but after seeing the wings sitting by the bored cooks, a skinny blond found mercy and brought to our table. Unless you are twenty. A single male with testosterone and like fake B, ies, go elsewhere for good wings. You won’t find them here!

Got our app before our beer…
Had to ask 3 times for 2 bottled beers. At 6pm. Way Before the fight.
When did they start putting peppers in the cheese sauce… and why isn’t it advertised that way?!

Worst service we’ve had in a long time. Took over two and a half hours. Had to send one meal back and several others had mistakes. We had to go to the drink station to refill our own drinks. And the restaurant was only 75% full.
We told the manager on duty and he didn’t even really apologize. Just said he was short staffed and would help out with the bill, which they didn’t even bother doing.
Seems like the problems were split between the waitress, the cooks and the manager. I’d suggest finding another place to eat. This place will disappoint you.

Worst Hooters experience ever. Wings were warm (temp) at best. Beer was stale. Service was horrible. Our waitress was slow to deliver drinks. Half the time she left the empty at the table when she brought another drink. Had a hard time getting her to the table. Took forever for food and even longer to get a ticket. Server name was Autumn.

The service here is so slow. We ordered 35 min ago and still no food. They are not even busy what the heck is going on here. Waitress is not very good and the girl behind the bar does not know how to smile.

How long does it take to fry up some chicken wings? After 30 min of waiting along with 2 other tables waiting right next to us (and they were here before us), we almost walked out… We had a seat where I could look into the kitchen — those guys are barely alive there! Finally, the food started coming out and we got to taste these blah wings. Not at all what I remember hooters from years ago! No celery or carrots accompanying the wings either. I’ve eaten much better wings at so many other restaurants. Hooters’ claim to fame is gone! No temptation to come back again at all…

We came in about 3 and were seated right away. Our server was nice, but there were multiple people taking care of us instead of just one girl. Fries are really good, my BBQ wings were good as well. However, the two people who had fried chicken (one a sandwich, the other sliders) felt sick shortly after. Didn’t hate it, but didn’t love it either.

We normally do not like to eat at places we have where live when we go on vacation but my wife and love Hooters. We stopped for lunch during the week, they wasnt very busy so im sure that helped with the awesome service we received. And the food was just blah nothing to write home about, but the fried pickles and atmosphere would bring me back.

Worst HOOTERS I’ve ever been to. If slow and unsteady is the way to go then they got it right also don’t expect all your food at the same time. I do not recommend this place with all the great places to eat in Destin go some where else.

Great wings, service, and burgers.
Me and my family of 4 were seated immediately, took our drink order, and had food within 30 minutes. It was hot and delicious. My wife had the Texas Burger and said it was the best burger she has had. Kids enjoyed the food and wanted to come back. When we travel we try to stay away from chain restaurants but I’m glad we stopped in.

Terrible service. Arrived 40 minutes ago and placed order as soon as we were seated. Haven’t seen our waitress since she delivered our flat beers. No manager in sight. Poorly operated establishment.
DO NOT COME TO THIS PLACE!

Two and a half plates of wings went uneaten at our table because they were disgusting. I’m talking worse than the frozen kind you can purchase at the supermarket.

Let me start off by saying I’m a regular at Hooters. I’ve eaten at every Hooters in Houston, Austin, & SA. I’ve eaten at Hooters in Miami, Clearwater, & now Destin; as far as wings, this place was great! Their sauce was so good for some reason, but there were a few small wings throw in there. We ordered 3 Mile, Hot, & Mild with curly fries and everything came out hot and nice.
The only problem with this place was the service. Lousy! We tried ordering «bently» because we do in Houston all the time, but the waitress had no idea what we were talking about. The manager was in the area and when we asked, he shrugged us off and had a rude tone. Another time my dad tried to flag down the manager who was looking point blank in our direction and the manager proceeded to watch the game on TV and ignore my dad calling out «Sir» and waving at him. By far the worst manager at any Hooters I’ve ever been to, they’re usually so friendly and nice, but this guy gave off a bad vibe & just seemed like a jerk. Another issue was dirty plates brought out to us, my sister went to ask for more plates and a waitress completely ignored her, I’m assuming because she’s a child. Customer service was enough for me to knock off a few stars for this location. It’s also very chilly in the restaurant which can ruin your meal just because it’s so cold.
Lastly, I don’t mean to assume or play the race card, but I couldn’t help but feel like the manager may have been a little stuck up towards anyone who isn’t white. We were the only non-​white people in the restaurant and seemed to get the least attention from the waitresses. I could just be overreacting, but I was observing how others were treated just because it crossed my mind. I won’t be coming back to this Hooters for the rest of my vacation or any other time I visit Destin, Florida.

I’ve been back twice since my last review, both on Sundays for NFL. The first time it was an outside visit again and it was packed due to a big NFC South rivalry game. Service was abysmally slow (staffing problem; the girls were upbeat and running like crazy) and some of us never even got to order drinks, but many of the customers were being d! cks anyway.
The second time we got there a little early, sat inside, and the place didn’t start filling up until almost an hour after kickoff. But Rachael was our server again and as usual she did a fantastic job. I noticed that everyone inside the restaurant seemed to be well taken care off and management was checking on tables, assigning games to televisions and talking football. So I’m starting to think that the patio is the nightmare area for this place.
Ups and downs aside, you can’t deny that Hooters is a good place for watching sports, with lots of beer, fried food and pretty girls. They have a good crew here.