The stink around a shuttered Kaimuki restaurant is still driving people off the street more than a month after its roof caved in, and the cleanup is not done.

• City crews thought they had cleared the kitchen at the Happy Days restaurant last week, then found another freezer packed with rotting food.
• The smell is bad enough that passersby and tourists on Waialae Avenue describe it as something dead.
• Nearby businesses are losing foot traffic, with customers turning around rather than walking past.
• The dining room is still too structurally unsafe to enter, so food left in there cannot be hauled out yet.

Outlook: Crews return later this week to finish the kitchen, but the smell will likely stay until the unsafe dining room can be cleared.