The Hawaiian plate lunch traces its roots to the 1880s, when
giant fruit and sugar companies controlled much of the local
economy. For plantation workers, lunchtime was a respite, with
hearty portions of rice and whatever meat was left over from dinner
the night before.
After the plantation days ended, the plate lunch lived on. In
the 1960s, it moved into lunch wagons, then into holes-in-the-wall
and other stand-alone restaurants.
The other caches in
this series are:
Toot's Hale,
First Job,
Sandy's and
Class of '79.