DAVID GROVER, ZIPPY’S DISHWASHER

Spinster Records owner David Grover went to high school in East Honolulu in the early ’80s.

Growing up on one end of Oahu was pretty idyllic.

Punk rock and new wave were just beginning to reach Hawaii, and his parents owned a house in Hawaii Kai, a residential development where everyone had free cable, including MTV.

His first high school job, however, was not a heady experience.

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A friend, the bass player in his high school band, convinced Grover to join him as a dishwasher at the Hawaiian fast-food chain Zippy’s.

The restaurant offers plate lunches with rice, a protein such as fried chicken and a scoop of macaroni salad. But Zippy’s is most famous for its chili.

“I learned how to scrape chili off the bottom of pans,” Grover says.

A few months later, another friend told him he could get him a job at Baskin Robbins. This ice cream shop was right by the beach in the shop-

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