Bantar was absolutely a key thing at Hooters to be able to get on with someone in chat, not in a sexual way. I think in Britain, people don't really understand what Hooters is about - it's not a strip club. You're just meant to be accommodating and nice and friendly and laugh at their jokes. If you're entertaining, then people will come back and see you again. It would give this vibrant restaurant vibe if you had interesting girls there. Then we had bikini pageants. I did the bikini pageant once and I was Miss Hooters Toronto... but that wasn't for me. The following year, I asked the manager if I could present the bikini
International Women's Week on Intelligence Squared. On this episode we’re hearing a compilation from our award-winning podcast series How I Found My Voice which explores how some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling – and unique – communicators. Our host for the series, BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, revisits conversations with writers Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo and Elif Shafak, actors Kate Winslet, Rose McGowan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, singer Paloma Faith, Labour politician and Member of Parliament Jess Phillips, businesswoman Gina Miller, and comedian Katharine Ryan.
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