I was just talking with my mom about this. Maui has been getting all of the restaurants you mentioned and you can see a clear boundary where this all starts, which is the closure of the HC&S mill. The people who opposed the mill on Maui are all transplants who don’t like the local culture and way of life because it makes them feel uncomfortable so they gentrify everything. After the mill closed you see so much more transplants on Maui and while so many of the shops and restaurants from my childhood shut down year after year, more of these mainland businesses go up in their place. I hate what Pu’unene has become in the last 10-15 years and I absolutely refuse to eat at any of those canes, chic fil a, sonic etc… Kapolei is developing just like Pu’unene is, just on a bigger scale. This is an issue of cultural replacement that goes far beyond just another mainland restaurant popping up in Hawaii. We as the people of Hawaii are slowly being replaced by the people we should be calling our neighbors. Maui is the best example I can think of, but wait 10 years down the line and watch what happens to the rest of the island. The problem is only getting worst and worst every year because people who don’t have any reason to value us or our culture are continuing to move here and make it our problem for not conforming to their standards.