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HPR s Noe Tanigawa on Zippy s at Tier 3 of Honolulu s reopening plan
Kevin Yim, vice president of marketing at Zippy s Restaurants, says Tier 3 over the weekend was OK. Slightly better, Yim says. It was definitely busier in our sit-down, dine-in restaurant side of the business.
Yim says their combined dine-in and take-out operation has weathered the pandemic fairly well, but employment at the company is still down about 25%, primarily due to the closure of Pomaikai Ballroom. If people don t have jobs, if they re not getting unemployment checks, they don t have the money to spend at a restaurant, Yim says. Therefore, Zippy s, like all other restaurants, are having a tough go at it right now, and it s something we re trying to dig ourselves out of.