Meet the Hooters Calendar girls: Tour visits Fort Myers, Naples, Cape, Port Charlotte

Charles Runnells, Fort Myers News-Press
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Want to meet a Hooters Calendar girl? Here’s your chance.

Miss January, Miss June and Miss November are all visiting Hooters locations in Southwest Florida next week. They'll be joined by other Hooters servers and bartenders featured in the restaurant chain's 2024 swimsuit calendar.

In all, 79 Southwest Florida Hooters employees appear in the calendar or its included poster. They all work at Hooters restaurants in Fort Myers, Naples, Sarasota, Cape Coral, Port Charlotte and Bradenton.

The women will meet fans, sign autographs and pose for photos at four Southwest Florida Hooters locations Wednesday through Sunday, Dec. 13-17.

Hooters Calendar's Miss November works in Naples

Grace Burchett, 25, of the Naples Hooters is Miss November in the 2024 Hooters Calendar.
Grace Burchett, 25, of the Naples Hooters is Miss November in the 2024 Hooters Calendar.

The tour includes bartender/server Grace Burchett, 25, of the Naples Hooters, who appears as Miss November. This is her second time as a "month girl."

“I’m really excited!” Burchett told The News-Press/Naples Daily News in October, when the calendar's month girls were announced. “It’s really an honor to be a featured girl again.”

More than 200 women from across the United States appear in the main calendar every year.

The calendar also showcases Sarasota Hooters employees Sarah Magda and Miya Vidales as Miss January and Miss June, respectively.

The three Southwest Florida women shot their photos in The Bahamas in May.

Burchett loves her Miss November photo, including the fact that her swimsuit is Hooters' signature color: Orange. “It’s very on-brand,” she said and laughed.

Hooters Calendar Tour: Where to meet the calendar girls

Sarah Magda, 24, of the Sarasota Hooters is Miss January in the 2024 Hooters Calendar.
Sarah Magda, 24, of the Sarasota Hooters is Miss January in the 2024 Hooters Calendar.

The Hooters Calendar Tour will visit four Southwest Florida locations next week. Here's where and when:

  • Hooters of Fort Myers, 4411 S. Cleveland Ave., Fort Myers. 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13.

  • Hooters of Naples, 3625 Gateway Lane, Naples. 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15. The event includes a $10,000 check presentation from the Naples Hooters to the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collier County.

  • Hooters of Cape Coral, 3120 Del Prado Blvd., Cape Coral. 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16.

  • Hooters of Port Charlotte, 1360 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte. 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17.

The events are all free.

Where to buy the 2024 Hooters Calendar

Miya Vidales, 23, of the Sarasota Hooters is Miss June in the 2024 Hooters Calendar.
Miya Vidales, 23, of the Sarasota Hooters is Miss June in the 2024 Hooters Calendar.

The calendars cost $15 each ($25 online). They're sold at Hooters restaurants everywhere and online at hooterscalendar.com. The online versions, however, don’t include the poster featuring more Southwest Florida Hooters employees.

One dollar from each calendar sale will be donated to cancer research through the Kelly Jo Dowd Breast Cancer Research Fund.

Hooters visitors can also take part in Operation Calendar Drop, an annual event where people buy copies of the calendar and have them sent in care packages to U.S. soldiers stationed overseas.

For more information on the tour and Southwest Florida restaurants, visit hootersflorida.com.

— Charles Runnells is an arts and entertainment reporter for The News-Press and the Naples Daily News. To reach him, call 239-335-0368 (for tickets to shows, call the venue) or email him at crunnells@gannett.com. Follow or message him on social media: Facebook (facebook.com/charles.runnells.7), X (formerly Twitter) (@charlesrunnells), Threads (@crunnells1) and Instagram (@crunnells1).

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