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Restaurant Insider with Anne Lee
ANNE LEE
with Aloha Table Waikiki’s general manager MARIKO HIGA and restaurant manager MICHELLE FERGUSON
Photos by
ANTHONY CONSILLIO
The Zetton Hawaii restaurant group is taking Seaside Av- enue by storm. Its mission is to build restaurants in neighbor- hoods, adapt to the culture sur- rounding them and give back to the localcommunity.Itwasfoundedby Ken Inamoto, who was a huge fan of Japanese cartoon series Ultraman, which featured an undefeatable monster named Zetton. Ironically, in kanji, zet is tongue and ton is drink, which translates to food and drink.
In 2009, the group opened its first Hawaii restaurant, Aloha Table Waikiki. I met with general man- ager Mariko Higa and restaurant manager Michelle Ferguson to learn more about this hidden gem tucked away right off Seaside on Lauula Street.
AL: It’s nice to see more females in leadership roles in the restau-
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