Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

From 2008: I was a correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times back in 1983, and I convinced my editor that we should write about these Hooters guys, of which Ed Droste was one of the six co-founders. It’s a story I have gone back to over the years because it’s never gotten dull. The company has hundreds of restaurants in dozens of countries, will celebrate its 25th anniversary in October. And nobody understands what gets the media’s attention better than Ed Droste.