Sizzler got killed by the “beef is bad for you” movement in the past 30 years.
Our town has had them all:
Bonanza, Quincy’s, Western Steer, Western Sizzlin, Logan’s Roadhouse, and a local owned steakhouse restaurant called Coach & Four.
They all went belly-up except the local one and the owners just retired and sold off the property.
We still have a Long Horns and a Ruth’s Chris, both are very pricey.
And A Golden Corral which has crappy
dried out shoe-leather steaks...............
Cors eat grass. Chickens eat any horrible thing that scampers by. But it’s more “healthy”, lol
Older than that, it didn’t dawn on me until recently, the “red meat is bad” coincided almost perfectly with the high monetary inflation that hit Americans in the early 70s. Margarine replaced dairy butter, powdered non-fat Milk, “Eggs are bad” (cholesterol), meat, dairy & cheese, everything did a moon shot and price.
That was a huge political issue, Americans can’t afford to buy food. So it was very convenient shall we say, that “official” guidance was that ersatz substitutes are healthier, and besides, you can’t afford it anyway.