Missouri Restaurant Chain Plans to Expand Nationally

There are restaurants that are happy serving their community, neighborhood, and city. They are successful, and have no plans to scale up and expand. Others have a unique model that could fit in most any city or community across the country.

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Try and keep up, this could get geographically confusing. 2 brothers from Oregon moved to Kansas City and opened a Hawaiian-style restaurant called Hawaiian Bros. Island Grill in Belton, Mo. in 2018. Less than ten years later they have grown to 74 locations in 14 states. Over the last three years they have tripled the number of franchise locations. Their goal is to grow to 2000 locations around the United States.

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Global flavor choices have become something that American people like to have available nearby. Here in Quincy, Illinois there is a veritable United Nations of restaurants serving up the flavors of India, Greece, Thailand, Italy, China, Japan, Korea and Mexico are mixed in with the traditional American flavors. Locally, this gives customers all kinds of options to choose from, not just variations of the same thing.

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The American regional flavors are varied as well, and Hawaiian Bros. Island Grill fills that Pacific cuisine spot on restaurant rosters in over a dozen states today. Will the flavors of the 50^th state set up shop near you? The odds are getting better.