The Burger Inn, a modest, 10-year-old K Street restaurant where a jumbo cheeseburger, fries and a Pepsi go for $7.25, is not among the hot dining spots mentioned when people talk of the transforming effect of Golden 1 Center on its downtown neighborhood.
Yet transformed the Burger Inn has been. Business has nearly doubled since the arena opened in October 2016, restaurant owner Paul Chong said. That’s partly because Chong, who usually keeps 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. hours in feeding the state-worker crowd, will stay open until 9 on a concert or game night.
“There are so many people walking by” on a Golden 1 Center event night, Chong said.