Yes, there really is a "Chuck" ..... Charles "Chuck" Rolles graduated from the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant School in 1956. He moved to Hawaii where he opened the first of a number of restaurants that bear his name in Waikiki in 1959. Customers fell in love with the informal atmosphere, the open grills, the all you can eat salad bar, and the high value concept. By combining the finest aged Western USDA prime grade beef with the open hearth cooking Chuck's established its reputation across the country and beyond. And it all started here in Hawaii.