Is America really getting a ‘male Hooters’ restaurant?

A proposed plan for a restaurant dubbed “the male equivalent of Hooters” has been criticised by family-values groups.

Those behind Woodpeckerz, which was allegedly set to open in Louisiana this year, placed an ad earlier this month on Craigslist searching for “go-go boys and/or male strippers or guys who think they have the stripper image” to work as waiters in a similar fashion to the big-breasted, scantily clad female waiters that US chain Hooters is known for.

News of the development quickly attracted criticism from a number of local family groups, including Citizens for the Family of the Jefferson Paris, who insisted that “Woodpeckerz is a step in the wrong direction” for the city, which has in recent years been making efforts to clean up its image. “An establishment such as Woodpeckerz that blatantly traffics in sexual themes has no place here,” the group added.

Rather disappointingly, the proposed development turned out to be an elaborate prank for an upcoming unscripted television show on the Country Music Network. According to a dancer that showed up to audition to be a waiter at the restaurant, he was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement by the network on arrival, reports Nola.com.

We won’t lie, we’re a little devastated.

Meanwhile, we bet US comedian Amy Schumer wished she’d patented the idea – she spoofed the idea of a male Hooters (called O’Nutters) in a hilarious sketch from her comedy show Inside Amy Schumer:

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