Hawkins House of Burgers is a hamburger restaurant in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

Her father, James Henry Hawkins, moved to Los Angeles from Arkansas in 1939 in the Second Great Migration and started the business.

[1][2][3] The building the restaurant is attached to was originally built by Cynthia's grandfather, who owned a malt shop there.

[4] In 2021, Hawkins received a letter from the California Department of Transportation that the restaurant was intruding on state-owned land and that the owners would have to vacate.

Other than burgers, Hawkins serves french fries, onion rings, chili cheese fries, a pastrami sandwich, tacos (coming in beef, chicken, turkey, steak, or fish), hot dogs, chili dogs, burritos, and the Farmer Otis Burrito, a 2 ft (0.61 m)-long burrito with lettuce, tomato, onions, cheese, beans, hot link, and pastrami.