Dean’s Drive Inn in Kaneohe to close after 16 years
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Dean Mishima and his wife, Dee, are officially closing up the family-run restaurant, Dean’s Drive Inn, for good on July 10, after supply shortages and the cost of goods drove up the cost of doing business, and, as he said — really makes no business sense any more.
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Dean’s Drive Inn in Kaneohe has been one of the Star-Advertiser’s ‘Ilima award winners, and was featured on Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” with Guy Fieri in 2014.
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Dean Mishima’s wife, Doreen, right, chats with longtime customer Mona Iwaoka as she works the busy counter
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Dean Mishima, cooks up lunch orders.
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Doreen Mishima, left, gives her husband, Dean, right, a surprise visit from Steven Chung, center, who works in Costco’s meat department.
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Dean Mishima's wife, Doreen Mishima, left, chats with longtime customer Mona Iwaoka as she works the busy counter.
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Returning customer, Will Stack, right, order’s lunch from Dean’s wife, Doreen Mishima, as she works the busy counter.
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Dean Mishima’s, son, Brad, serves up lunches.
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Dean Mishima orders his final batch of takeout food containers.
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Returning customer, Raijeli Matalau, left, order’s lunch from Dean’s wife, Doreen Mishima, as she works the busy counter.
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Dean Mishima, right, cooks up lunch orders with help from his son, Brad.
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Returning customer, Raijeli Matalau, right, order’s lunch from Dean’s wife, Doreen Mishima, as she works the busy counter.
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