Zippy's

Ask anyone in Hawaii about a "local" style fast food restaurant, and you can easily bet that Zippy's will be one of the names out of their mouths.  What started almost 40 years ago as a single drive-in restaurant has grown to 23 locations, a successful catering business, a successful mail order business, bakeries, okazuyas and the best benefit chili around.

(I had no photo of a Zippy's Restaurant.  This one is from a news article available on the internet.  I'll update this website once I have a photo of my own to publish.) Photo by Ayumi Nakanishi, Honolulu Star-Bulletin

So today's meal is a small chili with rice...

Perfectly seasoned, meaty and just mildly spicy, Zippy's chili is one of the best around.  Sold by schools and other groups as fund-raisers, Zippy's Benefit Chili is sold in enormous volumes (approximately 75 tons a month!).  I would almost guarantee that this is Zippy's top seller.  You can also get vegetarian chili (good) and chili with no beans (what's chili without the beans?).

I also chose another Zippy's classic, the Zip Pac.

It's a bento that includes (from top to bottom):  teriyaki beef, Spam®, deep fried mahi mahi (tartar sauce on the side) and fried chicken thigh.  The teriyaki beef is pretty standard.  The Spam®?  Seeing from my other bento posts, you know this is a local favorite.  The mahi mahi is deep fried and super crunchy.  Moist and flakey with just the right amount of batter.  And the chicken...well, it's another one of Zippy's most favored menu items.  Crisp and golden brown on the outside, moist and juicy on the inside.  The chicken is absolutely delicious and a must try!

Zippy's Restaurants are open 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.  So if you get those late night hunger pangs, head on over to Zippy's, Hawaii's answer to quick, convenient and delicious fast food. 

Zippy's Restaurants
McCully Location
1725 South King Street
Telephone:  808.973.0877

Comments

[hinano Hirashima]

how started the business

[Reid]

Hi Hinano,

Welcome to my blog.

You can find information about Zippy's on the company's website. Here's the link:

http://www.zippys.com/

[Linda Chock]

How can we get a copy of your fish list you have posted at your windows?