{"id":384370,"date":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","slug":"hawaiian-barbecue-shop-ono-makes-a-splash-with-plano-opening-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384370\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian barbecue shop Ono makes a splash with Plano opening this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Plano opening is the kickstart to the California-based company\u2019s expansion into Texas, specifically Dallas-Fort Worth. The company plans to open 10 restaurants across the region<\/a>, with the Plano location on Preston Road being the first.<\/p>\n

Ono is a Hawaiian-inspired chain that offers plate lunches with grilled meat, two scoops of rice and a side of macaroni salad or vegetables. The company\u2019s director of marketing, Christine Jan, has said two of the more popular orders at Ono are marinated and grilled Hawaiian barbecue chicken and breaded and fried chicken, called chicken\u00a0katsu.<\/p>\n

Another bestseller is the Hawaiian barbecue<\/a> mix, which includes short ribs, chicken and barbecue beef with rice and macaroni salad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company celebrated the opening of the\u00a0Plano location with a preview event Wednesday that featured hula and fire dancing, Hawaiian-inspired food, tropical cocktails, lei making and a performance from\u00a0Iam Tongi, winner of Season 21 of American Idol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ono started in 2002 and now has about 130 restaurants, primarily in California and Arizona. The following locations are planned for the company\u2019s North Texas expansion:\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the\u00a0Plano restaurant opens, Jan said, the next D-FW restaurants are expected to follow every month or two for two years, until 10 are open in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Plano opening is the kickstart to the California-based company\u2019s expansion into Texas, specifically Dallas-Fort Worth. The company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,115599,88942,106406,88338,87998,124723,116222,101086,88949,88944,89276,89307,106407,95927,100098],"class_list":["post-384370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-burleson","tag-tp-barbecue","tag-tp-carrollton","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-fort-worth-chain-restaurants","tag-tp-dallas-fort-worth-fast-food","tag-tp-hurst","tag-tp-mckinney","tag-tp-plano","tag-tp-restaurant-openings","tag-tp-restaurants","tag-tp-rowlett","tag-tp-seafood","tag-tp-wylie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}