Employer · WARN Act history · Accommodation & Food Services
Hooters of America
626 workers across 4 WARN notices, primarily in WI - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 626
- Workers cut
- 4
- WARN notices
- 4
- States
- 157
- Avg / notice
Hooters of America has 4 recorded WARN filings affecting 626 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Hooters of America has 4 recorded filings covering 626 workers across 4 states, primarily WI, the 281st-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Hooters of America is a minor share of Accommodation & Food Services WARN activity — 0.7% of the sector's 90,670 workers across 576 employers, ranking #17 in Accommodation & Food Services.
Hooters of America WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Hooters of America city concentration · single-city dominant
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
80.2% of named-city WARN workers for Hooters of America sit in Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis (502 of 626).
Lead city Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis · 80.2% · 4 named cities · top-3 share 97.1%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer HOOTERS-OF-A · Hooters of America 626 workers · 4 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNK · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 4 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #281
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNK Runway n/a
- STAT-MULTI 4 states
- BOOK-MULTI 4 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 4 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Hooters of America WARN filings · notice runway
Top 4 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis, IN · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 502 workers · filed Mar 23, 2020 · retroactive dates
- Madison, Brookfield, WI · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 61 workers · filed Apr 10, 2020 · retroactive dates
- Chantilly, VA · Layoff · Other Services 45 workers · filed Mar 23, 2020 · retroactive dates
- 3, MD · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 18 workers · filed May 15, 2020 · retroactive dates
Median forward runway across 4 dated filings: -16 days (4 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 4 same-day or retroactive).
Where Hooters of America Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Hooters of America is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#281 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WI
- Primary Industry
- Accommodation & Food Services
- First Notice
- Mar 23, 2020
- Latest Notice
- May 15, 2020
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: May 2020.
WARN Notice History
2020
3, MD · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Mar 16, 2020
18
workers
Filed May 15, 2020
Madison, Brookfield, WI · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Mar 16, 2020
61
workers
Filed Apr 10, 2020
Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis, IN · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Mar 20, 2020
502
workers
Filed Mar 23, 2020
Chantilly, VA · Other Services
Effective: Mar 16, 2020
45
workers
Filed Mar 23, 2020
Questions about this Hooters of America record
What is the largest Hooters of America WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis, IN on Mar 23, 2020, covering 502 workers in Accommodation & Food Services.
Where were Hooters of America's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name 3, Madison, Brookfield, and Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis, among 4 named cities; together they form 4 mass-layoff filings sourced from Maryland DLLR and Wisconsin DWD and Indiana DWD and Virginia Works. States represented in this record: IN, MD, VA, WI.
Where is Hooters of America's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
80.2% of named-city WARN workers for Hooters of America sit in Merrillville, Schererville, Portage, Mishawaka, Lafayette, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Evansville and Indianapolis (502 of 626).
Does Hooters of America's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 4 filings fall in 2020, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Hooters of America's record? ▼
No trustworthy advance-notice runway can be derived from these rows because the source dates are equal, missing, or retroactive.
See also: WI WARN filings · Accommodation & Food Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Hooters of America notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.