Hodad's bacon cheeseburger — built around a "bacon patty" of boiled-then-chopped-then-seared bacon that sits on top of a fresh-ground beef puck — drew Guy Fieri to Newport Avenue for the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episode that turned a 1969 burger shack into a national name. The kitchen sells between 1,200 and 1,500 burgers a day at peak, putting it in a different volume category than the small-batch burger-and-pint setup at Ocean Beach Brewery a few blocks away. Walls covered floor-to-ceiling in license plates contributed by customers form the décor, alongside a surfboard tabletop and skateboards mounted overhead. The menu fans out from the bacon cheeseburger to the Guido (pastrami, Swiss, grilled onions, spicy brown mustard, named for Fieri's nickname), the Blue Jay (blue cheese, bacon, grilled onions), a fried-chicken burger, BLT, grilled-tuna sandwich, veggie burger, and the signature "frings" (a basket of wedge fries plus onion rings). The kitchen runs no dessert section, with Hodad's diners typically walking the post-burger sweet-finisher traffic over to O B Donuts for a doughnut close. A relationship with the San Diego Padres opened a Petco Park concession in 2012 that has since expanded to four stadium-side stations plus the Park-at-the-Park location, building a high-volume sports-venue licensing arm on top of the original Newport Avenue counter.