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Put Out Your Cheesy Toasts: Everyone’s Mourning The End Of Sizzler In Australia

The fast food staple will be closing its doors by mid-November.

by Joseph Earp  2 October 2020
Sizzler

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Sizzler, that den of easy pleasures, heavy carbs and sticky floors is sadly closing its doors.

The news broke this morning, accompanied by a slew of mournful memories shared across social media. Turns out that the restaurant chain simply couldn’t survive the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, with lower customer turn-out doing irreparable damage to the franchise’s profits. By November 15, every outlet in Australia will have shut its doors.

That’s a genuine shame for a number reasons, most importantly of all because of the job losses that such a closure will mean — The Sydney Morning Herald reckons it could spell the end of employment for 600 franchise workers.

Online, people from all walks of life have been sharing their formative memories at the fast-food staple, proving that it was a strangely ubiquitous pleasure for so many of us.

Of course, particularly sad is the memorials shared by Sizzler neophytes, who will never get to indulge in the pleasures of cheesy bread or garlic prawn butter.

2020 just keeps on taking things away from us, huh?