When Las Vegas commercial real estate broker Jason Otter vacationed in Hawaii in 2008, he was looking for a good place to eat.
His family found Zippy’s, a casual Hawaiian restaurant chain, and quickly fell in love with it. Founded in Honolulu in 1966, Zippy’s has since become a staple of Hawaiian food culture. Otter said he immediately saw its potential in Las Vegas.
“I was like, ‘Wow, this is a really cool type of offering that we don’t have in Las Vegas,’” he said. “And so I proactively got introduced to the ownership of the brand in 2015 and they were already fans of Las Vegas and had been visiting Las Vegas for some time.”
