Sarento’s solos on OpenTable scenic list
Sarento’s at the Top of the Ilikai is the only Hawaii restaurant included in the list of Top 100 Scenic View Restaurants by OpenTable.com.
The list reflects more than 5 million reviews submitted by OpenTable users. More than 15,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia were considered.
Diners using the online reservation service also have rated Sarento’s as Diner’s Choice, Italian, and Diner’s Choice, Romantic.
SWCA Environmental Consultants moves
SWCA Environmental Consultants has moved into the American Savings Bank Tower at 1001 Bishop St., Suite 2800. Its phone and fax numbers remain the same as they were at the previous location, the City Financial Tower at 201 Merchant St.
The environmental projects consulting firm was founded in Arizona in 1981 and opened a Honolulu office in 2003. Its local office director is Tanya Johnson.
Boyd Gaming reduces Hawaii operations
Boyd Gaming Corp., operator of air charter subsidiary Vacations Hawaii, said Tuesday it cut back on its Hawaii marketing and flights during the second quarter.
The Las Vegas-based company, which operates casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, N.J., the Midwest and the South, saw its stock slide the most in more than two years after earnings and sales fell short of analysts’ estimates.
Shares tumbled 18 percent to $5.48 at the close in New York, the steepest daily decline since October 2009.
Net income was $1 million compared with a $3 million loss in the year-earlier period. Revenue rose 7.1 percent to $615.2 million.
Chief Operating Officer Paul Chakmak said as business trends strengthened in Hawaii, and in an effort to improve company margins, Boyd began pulling back on marketing programs that were put in place last year.
After discontinuing these efforts, however, "it quickly became clear that they are extremely effective in driving business from Hawaii," Chakmak said
"Consequently, we have resumed these programs and are seeing the early signs of recovery," he said. "The region was also affected by a shift in our Hawaiian charter service. In order to run more efficiently, we’ve reduced the number of weekly flights from five to four, lowering our fuel expense and maximizing our use of available seats, without significantly reducing the number of customers flying into Las Vegas. So, we are confident that the shortfall we saw in the second quarter was short term in nature and expect business to stabilize in the third quarter and resume growing in the fourth."
ON THE MOVE
Hilo Medical Center has announced Teana M.N. Kaho‘ohanohano as long-term care and rehabilitation services director. She was previously an administrator of the 95-bed Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo as well as administrator and administrator-in-training with Westgate Manor in Madera, Calif.
Island Insurance Co. has appointed Cizette Sato as assistant vice president for the Underwriting Services Division. She has nearly 35 years of insurance experience, including working for Insurance Hawaii, Bishop Insurance, Hawaiian Insurance Co. and CGU in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Hawaii Male Medical Clinic has hired Steve Ponce as regional manager to help oversee expansion to the mainland. He was previously a general manager of a men’s health clinic in Houston.
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has named Peter Makowski chief operating officer of its Moanalua Medical Center. He has more than 20 years of health care leadership experience.
