Girls Gone Wild founder plans restaurant chain

[Immortalfire]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070330/people_nm/girlsgonewild1_dc

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Having made a fortune off bare-breasted women, "Girls Gone Wild" founder is setting his sights on selling another type of breast.

A restaurant chain under the "Girls Gone Wild" brand name is being planned by Joe Francis, whose Mantra Films Inc.'s has built a $100 million business videotaping and selling the DVDs featuring young women exposing their breasts.

"This is going to be about fun, lifestyle, youth, sun. It's about everything 'Girls Gone Wild,"' Francis said. "It's going to be sexy without being sexual."

There will be no stripping, topless waitresses or filming in the restaurants, Francis said.

The first two restaurants are expected to open by mid-summer in Mexican beach towns Cabo San Lucas and Cancun. Francis sees franchises popping up mainly in college towns in the United States and around the world.

He said "Girls Gone Wild" restaurants will appeal to women who want to feel sexy, exiting and edgy.

Guys will turn out because "guys are always there, panting," he joked.

And he is not stopping at restaurants. Francis and Mantra plan a line of women's apparel including casual wear, lounge wear and swimwear that will be in stores by April 30.

Theme restaurants have been around for years. U.S. restaurant chain Hooters is based on the idea that waitresses in tight T-shirts and short shorts will lure patrons. Theme restaurants, in turn, sell a lot of apparel.

Mantra produces roughly 80 "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs a year, and is expanding to the United Kingdom, Australia and France.

Francis said Mantra holds roughly 700 special events and parties each year in bars and restaurants to videotape patrons going wild, drinking alcohol and, of course, exposing breasts

Has Hooters met it's match?

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

That's nice..

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

i hope spidermanluvr gets hired at one of them.

 

[Shifty]

i hope spidermanluvr gets hired at one of them.

When nobody wants to hire Lohan for movies she'll be there at all the grand openings. I don't know if she's still dating Francis...

 

[DOG LIPS]

i hope spidermanluvr gets hired at one of them.

Seconded. :heart:

 

[Orko Is King]

i hope spidermanluvr gets hired at one of them.

Who's that?

 

[Cmill216]

*waits for the inevitable Hooter's Pimp joke*

 

[ShadowBoxing]

*waits for the inevitable Hooter's Pimp joke*

It'll be a Hooter's Pimp threeway

 

[Sugarculted]

Who's that?

if my memory serves me well, it's some guy who fell in love with a hooters female...and couldn't stop posting about his love.

 

[Cmill216]

if my memory serves me well, it's some guy who fell in love with a hooters female...and couldn't stop posting about his love.

No. That'd be Ghostrider87.

Spidermanluvr, a girl, already posted in this thread.

 

[The Lumberjack]

Like anybody who isn't overweight, alone or incredibly unhappy goes to Hooters. Unless you're a fan of incredible disappointment of course, b/c then Hooters would be right up your alley.

 

[Sugarculted]

No. That'd be Ghostrider87.

Spidermanluvr, a girl, already posted in this thread.

*shakes fist up high*

curse my stupidity. but yeah, thanks for the correction

 

[MaskedManJRK]

"This is going to be about fun, lifestyle, youth, sun. It's about everything 'Girls Gone Wild,"' Francis said. "It's going to be sexy without being sexual."

There will be no stripping, topless waitresses or filming in the restaurants, Francis said.

Well, looks like this chain will fail, then.

Seriously, who watches those movies for the f**king sun? Seriously, who?

 

[Cmill216]

Seriously, who watches those movies for the f**king sun? Seriously, who?

It glistens off their eighteen-year-old bodies.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

It glistens off their eighteen-year-old bodies.

Well, I guess it's a more clever excuse then "I read Playboy for the articles."

 

[Dorian Gray]

False Advertising...

If I walk into "Girls Gone Wild Bar and Grill" or whatever...I'm not interested in the bar or the grill..

 

[Addendum]

Although some of the articles in Playboy are damn good.

There was a great one about ESPN a couple months ago

 

[Cmill216]

What's going to be on the menu? Patricia's Perky Pizza? Natalie's Nipple Nachos? Brittany's Bouncy Burgers? Tricia's Tight Ass Taco Salad?

 

[The Lumberjack]

Although some of the articles in Playboy are damn good.

There was a great one about ESPN a couple months ago

Uh-oh. Looks like someone is catching a case of the gay.

 

[Badger]

Well, I guess it's a more clever excuse then "I read Playboy for the articles."

I read Playboy for the articles. I look at Playboy for the ****.

 

[Badger]

What's going to be on the menu? Patricia's Perky Pizza? Natalie's Nipple Nachos? Brittany's Bouncy Burgers? Tricia's Tight Ass Taco Salad?

Or Tricia's Tight Tuna Salad.

 

[Fran]

This restaurant will fail. Girls Gone Wild will fall to Hooters food chain. Hooters will prove the Girls Gone Wild restaurant wrong. The first pitch for the new baseball season is so close.

 

[Addendum]

Uh-oh. Looks like someone is catching a case of the gay.

Nothing wrong with having a good read and then seeing a naked chick.

Isn't that similar to the concept of the Naked News?

 

[ang_hulk]

I hate chain resturants.this one will prolly be the worst,i dont see it lasting anyways.

 

[Immortalfire]

This restaurant will fail. Girls Gone Wild will fall to Hooters food chain. Hooters will prove the Girls Gone Wild restaurant wrong. The first pitch for the new baseball season is so close.

:heart: