Pasadena restaurant Lucky Boy started as a small hamburger chain in 1961, but it’s now best known for its breakfast burritos.
Walking up Lucky Boy’s brown-tiled steps, it may as well be 1970. Customers at the Pasadena mainstay approach a long steel counter to order their hamburgers and fries through a window as an employee in a Lucky Boy shirt taps into an ancient beige PC-based cash register. Ready orders are called out over a loudspeaker — “Chili cheese fries! Onion rings! Chicken sandwich!”— and served wrapped in yellow paper, nestled in boxes.
Owner Christina Karagias still doesn’t quite understand how the breakfast burrito became the most popular item. “I’m a little bit shocked because I still just think it’s a strange food,” she said with a laugh. She recounts the legend her father told her about a customer who used to come in early in the mornings in the late 1970s. He was always in a hurry, and one morning, he asked for his breakfast to be rolled in a tortilla so he could eat it in the car on his way to work.
Lucky Boy in Pasadena, Calif., started as a small hamburger chain in 1961, but it’s now best known for its breakfast burritos, top right. “They just loved the restaurant, and they loved what [the previous owner] had done,” Christina Karagias said. “I get a chill. It’s just a beautiful story.”
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