Hooters Celebrates 40 Years in 2023, Celebration Starts with Calendar

TAMPA BAY, FL — The 2023 Hooters Calendar is now available at your local Hooters. Tampa Bay area employees featured in the calendar include “Miss October 2023” Rilee Beltramea who works at the Clearwater Hooters location, Gracie Chamberlain who is on the back cover from the Brandon Hooters location and Iliana Rodriguez who is on the inside back cover and works at the North Tampa Hooters location. There are over 25 other local Hooters Girls also featured throughout the calendar and pull-out poster.

During the entire month of October, Hooters is holding its annual “Give a Hoot” fundraising campaign. Donations at the 22 Hooters locations in Tampa Bay and Chicagoland will support Moffitt Cancer Center. There are multiple opportunities to support the cause, including purchasing a 2023 Hooters Calendar. $1 of every calendar sold helps fight breast cancer. The calendars are available for purchase for $14.99 and include over $100 in coupons.

The calendar is celebrating Hooters’ 40th Anniversary in 2023. The first Hooters Calendar was released in fall 1985, two years after the first Hooters opened in October 1983 in Clearwater. All of the 200 ladies in the calendar work at Hooters restaurants across the country and were selected from thousands of candidates.

Ways the community can help and join their local Hooters restaurant in the fight against breast cancer include:

1. $1 of every Hooters Calendar sold locally supports Moffitt Cancer Center.
2. Add their name to a PERSONALIZED ENDOWMENT CARD to hang up in the restaurant or take home.
3. Enjoy a PINK DRINK created to raise awareness and funds.
4. PINK UP their check when you visit Hooters. Add a cash or credit card donation to their check.

Since 2002, HMC Hospitality Group has donated over $989,311 to Moffitt Cancer Center through “Give a Hoot” and other charitable commitments. The program is held annually in honor of HMC Hospitality Group’s own Kelly Jo Dowd, who was a Hooters Girl, 1995 Hooters Calendar Cover Girl and ultimately the Palm Harbor restaurant General Manager. Dowd succumbed to breast cancer in 2007. Hooters has raised more than $8 million over time to support the fight against breast cancer, much of it through the Kelly Jo Dowd Breast Cancer Research Fund benefiting the V Foundation for Cancer Research.

“We are committed to raising awareness and funds to support breast cancer research. It was important to Kelly Jo Dowd that we raise awareness and help find a cure for breast cancer. Our annual efforts to support Moffitt Cancer Center and their Breast Oncology Program are making a difference,” said HMC Hospitality Group Chief Marketing Officer Denise Williams.

Tampa Bay area Hooters locations:

• Hooters of Brandon (10023 E Adamo Drive, Tampa) 813-689-1188
• The Original Clearwater Hooters (2800 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Clearwater) 727-797-4008
• Hooters of Clearwater Beach (381 Mandalay Avenue, Clearwater) 727-443-7263
• Hooters of John’s Pass (192 W Boardwalk Place E, Madeira Beach) 727-797-4668
• Hooters of North Tampa (13606 Bruce B Downs Boulevard, Tampa)
• 813-972-1682
• Hooters of Odessa (16070 State Road 54, Odessa)
• Hooters of Port Richey (5336 Treadway Drive, Port Richey) 727-841-0801
• Hooters of South Tampa (4420 W Gandy Boulevard, Tampa) 813-835-5164
• Hooters of Spring Hill (3437 Commercial Way, Spring Hill) 352-666-9225
• Hooters of 4th St. - (4125 4th Street North, St. Petersburg) 727-8226178
• Hooters of Tampa/ Hillsborough (4215 W Hillsborough Avenue, Tampa) 813-885-3916

HMC Hospitality Group owns and operates 22 Hooters Restaurants and 5 Hoots locations in Tampa Bay and Chicagoland.