Nobody is aware of for certain what number of of Lahaina’s companies will wait out what may be years of uncertainty to reopen on the town. Business homeowners, a few of whom also lost their homes in the conflagration, have dispersed all around the nation in the weeks after the fireplace. Gartner and a good friend, Edna Bayliff, had visited Lahaina as vacationers in 1986 and one night developed a yearning for what they called a “great massive gooey, five-napkin cheeseburger,” one thing they couldn’t find simply on Maui.