She recently notified her staff of 10 to 15 employees that June 10 will be the site’s last day.
“And we want to be able to offer them the island-style food, and show that we really appreciate and acknowledge that they've been very positive and just definitely built relationships with them and friendships that we want to maintain, and see how they're doing and be able to serve them as well.” “Because there's a lot of customers, you know, we have a lot of regular customers,” she said. One “bittersweet” aspect of closing the doors will be “I feel like I let my customers down,” she said. Islands Grill opened in August 2019, and it found success at Batavia City Centre on Main Street with an outdoor patio and a regular customer base, Kunichika said.
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She and McCartan are counting on that willingness to transfer to the food truck concept, which will be a quicker-paced lunch experience for items such as a hot chicken sandwich or a shrimp po’boy, a lunch of white rice and mac salad plate, kalua pork and cabbage, Hawaiian bbq short ribs, fish tacos or a big island burger. Given the positive reception that the brick-and-mortar restaurant has received in Batavia, Kunichika is confident that people are open to trying new cuisines and will enjoy a taste of the islands once they do give it a try. But hopefully, there's a big wide opening smile to draw people in. I would like people to walk up, look, maybe (they’re) a little bit uneasy. Street food, that's what I would like,” McCartan of West Seneca said during an interview Friday with The Batavian. And then the fusion of Hawaiian and Japanese comfort food into something that you can walk away with easy. “What I would like people to come away with is an authentic taste of Hawaiian comfort food. She and business partner Mike McCartan plan to unveil the Islands Hawaiian BBQ food truck by the end of June or early July in Genesee County, with other eventual stops to be in Erie and Monroe counties.
Move over Islands Hawaiian Grill, a new name, concept and slightly revised menu will be truckin’ into town within the next month or so, owner Kourtney Kunichika says. Mike McCartan and Kourtney Kunichika are keeping the logo but revising the name of Islands to Hawaiian BBQ for their food truck business, expected to launch toward the end of June.
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