Meet the 2023 Hooters Calendar girls: Tour visits Fort Myers, Naples, Cape Coral, Sarasota

Hooters bartender Grace Burchett is no stranger to the Hooters Calendar. She’s already appeared twice in the popular swimsuit calendar.

But this time, it’s different.

This time, she’s Miss March — big photo and all.

“It’s very exciting!” says Burchett, 24, of Estero. “It’s definitely exciting just to see the big picture. It’s pretty special.”

Burchett originally posed as a bartender for the Fort Myers Beach Hooters, but Hurricane Ian destroyed that restaurant. Now she works at the Naples Hooters, instead.

“It was completely leveled, like most of the beach,” she says. “It’s all gone, and that’s so sad.”

Burchett is one of seven Southwest Florida Hooters employees appearing in the 2023 calendar, including June feature Skylar Becker, 22, of Fort Myers. More than 200 women from across the United States appear in the calendar.

“I’m so happy,” says Becker, a bartender at the Fort Myers Hooters. “It’s just an overall really cool experience, and I love that I get to be a part of this.”

Burchett, Becker and other women from the 2023 Hooters Calendar will visit six Southwest Florida Hooters restaurants this weekend on the annual Hooters Calendar Tour. The tour includes centerfold Madison Novo of Miami (also 2022’s Miss Hooters International) and Miss May Sloan Miavitz of Sarasota.

The women will meet fans, sign autographs and pose for photos.

Becker says she looks forward to the tour. She’s appeared twice before in the calendar and took part in last year’s tour, including her own Hooters in Fort Myers.

“It was so much fun,” Becker says. “All my regulars were there. It was just one big party. It’s hanging out and having a good time.”

About 18 more Southwest Florida Hooters employees are featured in a poster included with the 2023 calendar. The poster is only available with calendars purchased at Southwest Florida Hooters locations.

The calendar tour will make these free public stops:

• Hooters of Naples, 3625 Gateway Lane, Naples. 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16. The Hooters girls also will present a monetary donation, books and toy bears to Children’s Advocacy Center of Collier County. The Naples Hooters location has been holding a book and bear drive.
• Hooters of Fort Myers, 4411 S. Cleveland Ave., Fort Myers. 8-9:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16.
• Hooters of Cape Coral, 3120 Del Prado Blvd., Cape Coral. 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17.
• Hooters of Port Charlotte, 1360 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte. 4:30-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17.
• Hooters of Sarasota, 6507 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. 7:30-9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17.
• Hooters of Bradenton, 4908 14th St. W., Bradenton. 3:30-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18.