Time for a burger and drinks with this $25 gift certificate to Islands! When Islands founder Tony DeGrazier stepped off the beaches of Oahu after a day of surfing with his Navy buddies in the early 60s, he did what came naturally to him. He went searching for a juicy burger, a hot basket of fries and a cold drink. Twenty years later, in 1982, it was that sense of place and satisfaction he was trying to recreate when he took a little chunk of the islands and plopped it down right in the mainland of Southern California.