Hooters Casino Could Be Oyo Hotel Las Vegas

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  Cb Bob April 13, 2020

  OYO has a daily resort fee of ~$41. Geez.

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  Mike September 20, 2019

  When I saw the large red OYO logo my first thought was how well that would look on the Hooter's girls shirts. The two O's would be a better placement over strategic areas than the former 'Hooter's" lettering on the shirts. Just saying.....

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  Scott Roeben September 23, 2019

  Seriously, that's exactly how the uniform design turned out for model dealers. https://twitter.com/VitalVegas/status/1174030478300475393/photo/1

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  Jay D August 13, 2019

  Hooters stay away from OYO...we don't need another foreign merger coming in and taking over the American Hooters Brand Name, built in the USA by USA citizens...just clean up the place its a great location a d those Iconic chicken wings can't be duplicated when they are done right by Hooters. Please find a way other than the OYO(Oi You Ownit) way,

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  DeMango August 8, 2019

  Scant? Loved it!

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  Tom August 5, 2019

  Seems as if when something new comes town there is always skeptical people. I am a hotel owner and I am negotiating with several different franchise. OYO is successful because the owners are sick and tired of being robbed by hotel franchise. Hotel franchise gets a percentage of all Hotel Revenue and they also pay loyalty fees but what has recently came into the picture is penalties, Hotel owners are getting penalized constantly so that the hotel franchise can reach a little deeper into the hotel owner's pockets. Recently a well-known brand penalized the hotel owners if they didn't sign up so many loyalty members, Hotel owners are sick of being charged all the fees and now overwhelming penalties, the franchise is getting rich and the owners are getting poorer. From my understanding, OYO doesn't have any hidden fees for owners. There is no penalties, no hidden fees, just one flat rate.

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  OYO apologist society August 5, 2019

  Brought to you by OYO.

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  johnjohn August 4, 2019

  Only reason it is still open is location, location, location and its "value" option for online booking engines. The property's customers are mostly 1 time stays. Stay there one time and that was enough. This is what a friend who works there told me. Says that there are a handful of repeat customers but the majority is a 1 time stay. In my opinion, the place has gone way down in the last few years, gotten really bad. I think that they are taking lessons from the MGM on how to gouge the guest. Anyway, hopefully this new owner will actually try and improve the property and make it a place someone would want to visit. It has a great location, easy in easy out as you dodge the homeless beggars surrounding the property.

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  Michael August 3, 2019

  I did some quick research on OYO. While the 23,000 hotels may be legit, it appears that the majority are in India (where according to my research there are over 1,784,000 "hotels" as defined by the Ministry of Tourism) and the majority of those are very small (under 30 rooms). It also appears a significant portion of the "portfolio" are made up of Franchises and Lessors. Still OYO has been able to raise $1.5 Billion on Venture Capital, which would allow them to acquire properties at an aggressive pace. It would also allow them to operate at a loss in the future while they continue to build out the "brand". It will be interesting to see if they acquire the Hooters Casino and what happens from there. As far as the casino license, they could sublet the casino operation to a third party, similar to what Virgin Hotels is doing with their Las Vegas property known today as the Hard Rock Hotel.

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  Lew August 3, 2019

  It would seem the...only...reason that property enjoys whatever continued success it has had IS the Hooters brand. As noted, it went through a long list of names prior to Hooters which it has held for a good while. If they strip away (pardon the pun) the Hooters, there would be little draw.

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  FYMYAWF August 2, 2019

  Yeah unless this involves renovating the hell out of the place, rebranding and increasing efficiencies alone just seems like it will be good for the bottom line but not for the consumer.

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  Porky August 2, 2019

  Lipstick on a pig doesn't change the fact it's still a pig.

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  alex August 2, 2019

  The information here isn't really correct. OYO Rooms is a hybrid of a booking site and hotel branding company. Their claim of having a portfolio of 23,000 hotels is smoke and mirrors. In that number, they are including Airbnb-style rooms that they have no connection to other than handling the reservation. The world's largest hotel chain is Best Western. They have over 4,100 hotels...almost all of which are franchises. OYO was founded in 2012. If they became legitimately 5 times bigger than Best Western in 6 or 7 years, they'd be the biggest business success story in our lifetimes. I hope you're not bothered by my correction, Scott. I worked in hotels for decades. Without that background, it would be hard to decipher the PR claims on the OYO website and see that they aren't nearly as impressive as claimed.

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