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Tryzen Patricio’s Hawaiian Cooking Has Gone From a Dorm Room to a Cart to a Restaurant and the Lines Keep Getting Longer GrindWitTryz was a near-instant sensation, its crowds and wait times harking back to the early days of Salt & Straw or Apizza Scholls, and even more so after COVID-19. HANG LOOSE: GrindWitTryz owners Tryzen Patricio (left)and Candace Lacuesta. (Mick Hangland- Skill) Updated December 16, 2020 In 2015, Tryzen Patricio moved from Hawaii to Portland to attend Concordia University, where he also cooked the food he missed from home right in his dorm room, selling it to friends and other island transplants via word of mouth and Facebook. Among his memories from those days is going to the Bunk location on Northeast Alberta for sandwiches in between classes and telling one of his professors he d