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Hooters will pick up the tab for Corbett Middle School's football end-of-season party.

"We love those kids. They chose us," said Melissa Fry, director of marketing for Hooters. "We just want to be able to let them celebrate where they want to celebrate. They've earned that right and we want to support them."

Additionally, the company will donate $1,000 to the Corbett Booster Club, plus 20 percent of Saturday's profits at the Jantzen Beach location, she said.

The choice of the restaurant as the site of the party for the middle-school boys has been controversial, with some parents and school officials objecting to the venue, which features waitresses in tight tank tops, though coach Randy Burbach stands by the location, seeing nothing wrong with it.

The coach said today that he doesn't believe he, his brother and his son will be allowed back as coaches next year and he considers himself fired.

Of that, Fry said: "It's very unfortunate."

Burbach has said he began planning the party, slated to include limo rides and food bought by the coach, more than a month ago and asked players to notify their parents.

He hadn’t heard objections, he said, until this past weekend. He’s said it’s too late to change the venue and that he's already spent more than $1,000 planning the event.