If you've ever had a plate lunch, you'll know why. Usually priced under $10, one lunch can easily weigh over a pound. It’s a miracle anyone gets anything done in Lafayette after lunch.

Plate Lunch-A-Palooza, which is 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Sugar Mill Pond, is free to the public and will feature music from local bands, pop up shops and activities for all ages.

By the 1930s, new mobile meal services called lunch wagons popped up to cater to laborers and drive-ins; instead of being served on bento boxes, they were served on compartmentalized paper plates ...

She is also a partner of a plate lunch place herself, Rainbow Drive-In in Kalihi. “They’re also seeing increases in all their paper supplies, and takeout containers,” Matsuoka said.