After learning a thing or two about Waste Management in last week's premiere of Undercover Boss, the reality series gives viewers an exciting glimpse to the world of Hooters as CEO Coby Brooks briefly leaves his corner office for an entry-level job at his own company. 

"It was an opportunity. I didn't know if it was ever going to happen. We talked about it for a long time. It was a new series. I wanted to get back into it. It's been 20 years since I've been into the field - as we call it," Brooks tells Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith of what made him decide to go undercover.

In a week's time, Coby Brookes went from busboy ton assistant manager and got exposed to the positive and negative feelings people have about the chain. At one point, he witnessed a store manager, who treats girls without respect, "inspects" women everyday in a very uncomfortable manner.

 "The things I saw today were inappropriate," Brookes says on Undercover Boss. "They were wrong and I don't want any part of it... the way he approached the girls was not acceptable."

The said manager, however, was not fired. Instead, he was reprimanded and the show claims that he has since changed his management style.

As for Hooter's seemingly tainted reputation, Brooks asserts that his company is a woman-friendly place that empowers women all the time.

"Thirty-seven percent of our corporate office and management staff are women, seventy-five percent of all of our employees are women," he explains. "We raised a lot of women. We just sent one of our vice presidents, who was a Hooter girl, to Rwanda recently to help better educate women and empower women. So there's a lot of things that Hooters does behind the scenes that we never get credit for, but the bad things you always hear about."



Source: CBS News
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