The Hooters at 2100 W. International Speedway Blvd. in Daytona Beach has shut its doors for good after more than 35 years in business, leaving Volusia County without a single location of the wings-and-shorts chain. The restaurant has been pulled from Hooters' official website, and Google now lists it as permanently closed.
According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, the restaurant is now listed as permanently closed on Google, and with its exit, Volusia County loses the sole Hooters it had left. Anyone craving the chain's signature wings will now have to drive to Orlando, home to the next nearest location, the paper reports.
A Florida-Born Chain Keeps Shrinking in Its Home State
Hooters was launched in 1983 in Clearwater, Florida, according to the Palm Beach Post, and at its peak the chain boasted more than 430 locations worldwide. That footprint has been shrinking fast. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2025, and in June 2025 it announced the closure of a select number of restaurants, as reported by Fox News.
Hooters emerged from bankruptcy with a strategy centered on a predominantly franchise-operated business model, Fox News notes, and the Palm Beach Post adds that the chain is now shifting toward a franchise-focused approach while maintaining roughly 200 U.S. restaurants and about 60 international locations. Economic pressures in recent years have led to the closure of dozens of corporate-owned outlets, per the same report.
Other Longtime Florida Locations Have Also Gone Dark
Daytona Beach is not the only Florida city watching its local Hooters disappear. The chain's last remaining Jacksonville location, which opened in 1986, permanently closed after operating for four decades, leaving Hooters without a location in northeast Florida, Fox News reported. Down the coast, the Hooters in Panama City Beach closed in September after more than 30 years in business.
Palm Beach County has felt the squeeze too. Hooters of Boca Raton, the county's last remaining location, was slated to close when its lease expired on February 28, 2026, ending a 16-year run, following the earlier closure of the chain's West Palm Beach restaurant in 2024, according to the Palm Beach Post. Outside Florida, the pattern has repeated: the Hooters at Minnesota's Mall of America closed in March 2026, and a Fayetteville, North Carolina location closed in May.
No statement from Hooters, the Daytona Beach property owner, employees or customers was included in the reporting on this particular closure, and it remains unclear exactly when the restaurant shut its doors or why. What is clear is that a Daytona Beach fixture dating back more than three decades is gone, and for now, Volusia County diners will need to head to Orlando for their next plate of wings.
