UC3

HOOTERS, the family restaurant with the suggestive name, is betting that UC3, a trio of very pretty singers, will be as popular as its wings-and-breast combos.

The Hooters foray into music made its debut at the chain’s 56th restaurant, where Tracy Williams, Cristal Bermudez and Kristy Scott – UC3, get it? – played a mini, three-song hootenanny.

The women of UC3, who range in age from 17 to 22, are cute without stepping over into the pseudo-sexual streets of Britneyville.

And if you were seeing double and feeling single after a few beers, their stage attire would rev your motor.

The women got better as they gained comfort on the small, makeshift stage.

On the first song, “It’s a Party,” a fast-break pop tune with a complicated arrangement, the singers performed to pre-canned tracks that made it impossible to tell whether they were lip-synching.

Although they may have cheated on “Party,” they did sing “Sharing Kisses in the Rain,” where their voices played off each other, nicely creating harmonies that had a little grit.

Williams, clearly the center of the trio, has the biggest voice and a stage presence that is only hinted at by her sister UC3ers.

She dedicated the last song, “I’m That Girl,” to the 15,000 waitresses who wear the orange satin short-shorts of the pub-grub chain that not only has its own airline, but, now, its own voice.