Hawaiian restaurant proves so popular, it announces 7th Kansas City area location

So the Ward Parkway location will have two double-sided kitchen lines — two for dine-in orders and two for to-go orders. The goal will be for customers to place their orders and receive them in about 90 seconds.

“I definitely think we were well positioned for this time. Our food travels well, the speed we can make it, it’s affordable,” said Scott Ford, who became president of Hawaiian Bros earlier this year. “We do a crazy amount of curbside.”

Hawaiian Bros offers a traditional Hawaiian Plate Lunch with a scoop of white rice, a scoop of macaroni salad and a protein.

Other menu items include its signature Huli Huli chicken (marinated in teriyaki sauce and grilled fresh), Spam Musubi (rice and seared Spam glazed in teriyaki sauce and wrapped in dried seaweed), and Pacific Island Salad with Huli Huli chicken, mandarin oranges and chow mein noodles.

Customers can top off their meal with another popular order, Dole Whip, a fat-free, dairy-free, gluten-free soft-serve frozen dessert.

Area locations are in Belton, Lawrence, Lee’s Summit, North Kansas City and Overland Park. The Shawnee restaurant, at 11600 Shawnee Mission Parkway, also is scheduled to open in early 2021.

In addition, Hawaiian Bros recently opened a ghost kitchen — offering delivery and takeout only — in Garland, Texas, and it also has two ghost kitchens in the Chicago area.

The owners plan to open 15 to 20 brick-and-mortar restaurants in the next 18 months, mostly in Texas but about one-third planned for the Kansas City metro and Omaha.

Ford had previously been with Boston Market and Applebee’s International Inc. before serving as president of Goodcents Franchise Systems Inc. in De Soto for eight years.