Sizzler
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Sizzler is a United States-based restaurant chain with headquarters in Culver City, CA, serving steak, seafood, salad (from a large salad bar), and similar food items. It was founded in 1957 as Del's Sizzler Family Steak House by Del and Helen Johnson and had more than 270 locations, although it closed most of its locations in the Eastern U.S. in the mid-1990s. Most of its U.S. locations are in the west.
Sizzler also have restaurants throughout the world including Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand.
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 Sizzler restaurant at The Myer Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
 Sizzler restaurant at Toowong Village in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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- In the 1992 film White Men Can't Jump, Sidney (Wesley Snipes) promises Junior (Kadeem Hardison) that they'll go to Sizzler after he beats Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) in a free-throw contest. During the contest, Junior starts taunting Billy by chanting, "We goin' Sizzler! We goin' Sizzler!"
- In the 1995 film Heavyweights, the character Josh, after being sent home from camp by Tony Perkis, eats a meal at a Sizzler, and after arriving back at camp, mentions this to one of the other characters: "First I went to the Sizzler, got that all-you-can-eat meal. I closed the place."
- In "Weird Al" Yankovic's song Albuquerque, the narrator achieves his lifelong dream by getting a part-time job at a Sizzler. He also gets awarded Employee of the Month after he puts out a grease fire with his face.
- In the Jamie Foxx Show, after Jamie and his co-star/girlfriend Fancy have reconciled after a long fight about a birthday present, Jamie promises to take Fancy to "some place really fancy," she replies, "Really?" To which Jamie responds, "Sizzler," then everyone laughs.
- In the 1996 film Carpool, Tom Arnold's character is unable to prevent his mother from patronizing a Sizzler restaurant. Her abuse of the "all-you-can-eat" meal results in a police standoff.
- In several episodes of Family Matters, the characters talk about going to Sizzler as a "fancy" meal.
- Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has said that she is a huge Sizzler fan.
- In Ghostbusters II when Egon, Ray, and Winston go to pick up Peter prior to investigating the sewer wearing full rubber hazmat gear and galoshes, Peter surmises that they are on the way to "All you can eat, barbeque rib night at the Sizzler".
- In Happy Gilmore, Joe Flaherty's character, Donald, offers Shooter McGavin a meal at the Sizzler.
