It’s always fun to go out to a restaurant with some buddies, especially when it involves greasy food and ice cold beer. But the best dining experience of all has got to be Hooters. Not only can you eat your weight in delicious, delicious wings, but the eye candy’s not so bad either.

However, Hooters doesn’t have a monopoly on waitresses with… hooters. Nope, the busy wing chain is now part of a larger phenomenon. It is the predecessor to an emerging trend, a trend that’s spreading, a trend that we can get behind: The Breastaurant.
 

The Breastaurat (noun) is defined as a restaurant that features scantily clad or sexually appealing waitresses.
 

Turns out a little bosom with your beer and burgers is a winning combination, even in the current depressingly depressing recession. It’s times like these that could use all the, ahem, perkiness possible I guess.
 

Hooters, which boasts more than 380 restaurants across the U.S., made an impressive $997 million nationwide last year. That’s a 2% jump from the year before. Plus, the Super Bowl, the biggest wing-eating day of the year, promises even more sales.

With figures like that and the figures above, it’s no wonder copycats are cropping up all over. Restaurants such as Bone Daddy’s House of Smoke and Twin Peaks (could they have picked a more obvious name???) are expanding when other businesses are scaling back.

Not entirely surprising, these restaurants are big in Texas, where bigger really is better. There are four Bone Daddy’s and six-going-on seven Twin Peaks in George Bush’s home state.
 

From here the breastaurant craze can only get bigger and more bountiful. And that, my friends, is a beautiful thing. Because I love wings… because I really, really love wings.