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Sure, the a Hawaiian Tropic Zone Restaurant in midtown is hot - its grand opening was so crowded it had to be shut down and its waitresses wearing bikinis while serving food and drink. But if you thought the waitresses wore bikinis because they couldn't afford more clothes, think again. It turns out that many of the waitresses are women who win Hawaiian Tropic contests across the country and were given the chance to strut their stuff and sling the hash in the city. The Post reveals that there's basically a Hawaiian Tropic dorm where most of the women live:
The Texans live with eight other recruits in two three-bedroom pads in an eight-story walkup on the Upper East Side owned by Dennis Riese, who owns the Hawaiian Tropic Zone with PM nightclub honcho Adam Hock.Required tanning - hilarious yet expected! Taking that into account, the first year of rent would be $3000 TOTAL. That is a pretty amazing deal for the model-waitresses, even if they have to share rooms and make sure their bodies are bikini-ready. Especially given that each night one of the waitresses is named the "pageant winner" of the night and gets $100 on top of the $100 for the shift ($12.50/hour) and tips.Under the terms of their Hawaiian Tropic Zone deals, the models live rent free for six months, pay $200 for the seventh month, $400 the eighth and $600 a month until they leave. They also get discounted gym memberships and tanning, because they're required to take part in both.
In return, they weave in and out between crowded tables as waitresses for the restaurant, welcoming guests, serving drinks and taking dinner orders while wearing Nicole Miller bikinis.
You can see photographs of some of the staff in the photo gallery.
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Those are some hideous chicks. And I don't consider myself a picky guy.
I'm considering going to this. So you just eat food and ogle the girls? do they give lapdances or do they just slap suntan lotion on? Is hooters better?
They look fine to me. I know you city slickers like your womean with fur under their arms. or, some other oddity to show how "open" you are and you're not into just looks. yeah, yeah, I've heard them all.
Nothing wrong with wanting some eye candy.
I want to know do they really serve you in a full bikini, no hosiery.
I know hooters waitresses wear panty hose and hawk their t-shirts or calenders. However, they do have good wings, even though they are batter fried.
when will women's bodies no longer be used for recreation? and economic profit based on the shallowness of men? why is gothamist celebrating this?
it's just so... unoriginal.
Hey, this is also a real estate story -- providing board for your employees is pretty unusual, I think.
As for the restaurant's website and photo gallery, that's the first place I went when looking at the story.
The girls live in an 8-story walkup? Is there such a thing? I know there are 6-story walkups, but I thought walkups higher than six stories were illegal.
BTW Is Gothamist still monitoring the commenters? I notice that several of my comments were rejected--and they weren't "offensive" either--certainly not by the standards tjat have been set here. I think that Gothamist is actually not permitting any comments thay view as not favorable to themselves.
In my opinion, this place is HORRIBLE. Had the misfortune of going there recently. First, the service is absolutely terrible- once seated, it took us 25 minutes just to get the initial drinks that were ordered, and the place was slow that night!!! Food service was also quite slow.
Second, the girls that you see at the door (the most attractive) are NOT who you are being served by. You get the second tier girls to take your order, and DUDES bring your food and drinks and interact with you much of the time!!! When I order an overpriced drink I at least want to look at a beautiful girl, not some tough guy DUDE. Also, the cuisine is mismatched to their target audience. The type of client that would care about their "high end cuisine" is not going to go to a place like this and tell people all about the damn food.
The nightly "bikini competition" or whatever they call it is also a joke. Takes like 5 minutes for ALL of them to walk 50 feet across a catwalk, say their name and leave. Based on what I saw, this place will go under soon, and good riddance - horrendous management of the concept.
Absolutely disgusting. And I'm sure it will be very popular. Men are vile.
wow, it's worse than hooters.
I wonder if it's a sanitary rule that one must wear panty hose and not bare legs to serve food.
If your food is served by a Tough guy dude, then definately this places needs to be gone.
Now bouncers are serving food, what's next?
Wonder if Hawaiian Tropic will also foot the chemo bills when these chicks get cancer from all the tanning bed exposure.
re: #8
certain men are vile, but not the majority. this place is going to go under quicker than a planet hollywood. just wait.
Is there a business woman willing to do the male version?
She could hire gay men to make her own special gay male restaurant and serve banana daquiris and other assorted naughty drinks.
I have two friends with melanoma. One is dying. The other one....not doing so well. I really hope that its the spray on tan, not a tanning bed. A dr told me, if I wanted to get cancer, smoke and go to a tanning bed. She couldn't see why either one is legal.
And yeah...places like this, are disgusting. I'm waiting for the first sexual assault charge, placed by a "waitress" who finds herself getting groped by a paton who thinks thats what she's there for.
"when will women's bodies no longer be used for recreation?"
I wonder the same thing. I know men love looking at naked chicks and that will never change yadda yadda, and that's fine. I've no problem with porn or even strippers. But isn't that enough? Do boobs need to be infused into everything from sports to retsaurants to car shows? Time to grow up, this is not a nation of 10-year olds looking at National Geographic. And men should be annoyed by this too, since it implies that they are too stupid to enjoy anything or buy anything unless purty gurls are involved.
(btw I don't think Goth is celebrating the boobage, but talking about the dormage)
wow...can't THINK of a better way to spend my $krilla than having that hoboken chick bring me a pu-pu platter whilst wearing a bikini - what a fabulous idea!
What do you have against Hoboken chics, nuyorican?
"Men are vile."
OK- somewhere between these two comments lies some truth...
"And men should be annoyed by this too, since it implies that they are too stupid to enjoy anything or buy anything unless purty gurls are involved."
"This is not a nation of 10-year olds looking at National Geographic"
This however...completely false!