A new Mo’ Bettahs Hawaiian Style Food is opening Friday at 14020 N. Rockwell Ave. in northern Oklahoma City, marking the chain’s seventh Oklahoma restaurant and its 82nd location nationwide. The store sits in the Quail Springs area near the Memorial Road corridor, close to the Edmond border, and will serve dine-in, takeout and catering to guests across northern Oklahoma City and surrounding communities.
The chain has continued expanding across central Oklahoma. Mo’ Bettahs added its sixth Oklahoma restaurant in February 2024 at 4611 North Kickapoo Avenue in Shawnee, offering drive-thru, takeout and dine-in service, as reported by RestaurantNews.com. The new North Rockwell location will operate Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and stay closed Sundays, per RestaurantNews.com.
Free Tastings and a Ribbon-Cutting Before Opening Day
Before the doors officially open, Mo’ Bettahs is throwing a community celebration on Thursday at the new restaurant. A friends and ‘ohana event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., hosted by co-founders Kimo and Kalani Mack, offering complimentary mini plates and drinks, per the restaurant’s opening announcement. A ribbon-cutting ceremony follows at 4:30 p.m., leading into a block-party-style celebration from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. featuring samples, merchandise and a caricature artist.
“Opening another restaurant gives us the chance to share even more of the food, hospitality and aloha we grew up with in Hawai’i,” Kalani Mack said, according to the same account. The Mack brothers grew up on O’ahu before founding Mo’ Bettahs in Bountiful, Utah in 2008. The new location’s menu centers on Hawaiian-style plate lunches, including teriyaki chicken and steak, katsu chicken, pulehu chicken and kalua pig.
Why This Corner of Quail Springs
The North Rockwell site sits within Deercrest Marketplace, a 140-acre commercial development and Walmart-anchored power center along the Kilpatrick Turnpike, according to a listing from Realmo. The center includes 850,000 square feet of pad sites exposed to more than 100,000 vehicles a day. The restaurant sits close to the Oklahoma City and Edmond municipal border — the kind of high-traffic suburban corridor that has anchored much of the chain’s recent Oklahoma growth…