By james art 
The American chain of restaurants, known for the chicken wings and its Hoots Girls sketches, Wait-Staff, has applied for bankruptcy. Hoa’s Restaurant Group filed a proposal to protect Chapter 11 on Monday at the North Texas Bankruptcy Court in Dallas.
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