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introduced to our food as possible, focusing much higher on quality versus quantity, <br />and our service is to offer that food at a lower cost than everybody around us simply <br />because it's a resort area, does not mean you have to charge resort cost, because we <br />hope to aside from tourists we very much hope to engage the locals. We'd love the local <br />business and offer a consistent product with a rotating menu, especially for the dinner <br />so they can be excited about what we have to offer and not get bored with our options. <br />We would like to have our liquor license because we also have a full bar like the former <br />Sansei's did as well. And I'm happy to answer any questions about menu, hours, <br />anything that you may have. <br />Yadao: Thank you. Have you received the application report? <br />Dinger: We have. <br />Yadao: Are there any changes to the report? <br />Dinger: There are none. <br />Yadao: Director, any reports of protests? <br />Waltjen: Chair, the applicant mailed 5 out of 5 notices within 100 feet, 135 out of 135 <br />within 500 feet, and one notice to a condominium or cooperative apartment manager. <br />There were 135 properties within 500 feet entitled to protest, we received no protests to <br />this application. <br />Yadao: Thank you. Is there any public testimony at this time? <br />There was no public testimony. <br />Yadao: Seeing none. Commission, is there any discussion or questions? <br />Ventura: So, it seems like the principles have you know various backgrounds, is this <br />the group's first venture into the restaurant business? <br />Dinger: Mine, yes. My business partner now, she's been in the restaurant business <br />for over 30 years, she's built many for others, she's designed, coordinated, staffed, <br />budgeted, managed, that be Melanie Fraser Davis, and her husband Bill has also done <br />all the building for multiple restaurant chains and such. I have mostly the restaurant <br />work, Melanie brings the expertise. <br />Ventura: And is the improvements from the prior tenant pretty much intact? <br />Dinger: They are intact. <br />Ventura: Thanks. <br />Dinger: There was a complete facelift. <br />MINUTES - LIQUOR COMMISSION MEETING - THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2026 - HILO PAGE 11 OF 41 <br />