Revival
There are currently three operating restaurants sporting the Don The Beachcomber name.
When Disney's Disney California Adventure Park opened in 2001, it included a small Don the Beachcomber at its Hollywood & Dine food court. It offered Chinese-style food, but did not serve alcoholic drinks. The restaurant closed within a few years. A short-lived Don the Beachcomber Bar was located inside the Royal Star at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas from 2004 to 2006.
In 2005, a full scale Don the Beachcomber restaurant opened at the Royal Kona Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; and at the Royal Lahaina Resort in Lahaina, Hawaii in 2007. By then, Arthur K. Snyder's firm Marisol, LLC, owned the name.
In 2009, Sam’s Seafood in Huntington Beach, California changed hands and was renamed "Kona". However, new owner Chuck Purrington then struck a licensing deal with Marisol and re-branded the restaurant as Don the Beachcomber. The restaurant has installed new signs, added many of the original Don The Beachcomber drink concoctions to the bar menu (including the original Mai Tai recipe), and is serving some of the drinks in newly manufactured Don The Beachcomber tiki mugs. They also have a renamed web site up and running, containing the history of Don The Beachcomber and his original restaurant/bar chain.
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