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There’s still a Sizzler in Blythe, California, off Interstate 10 about halfway between Phoenix and LA. We had one here in Mesa until recently when it burned down. That location was once a closed Mexican restaurant and the Sizzler was open probably around two years before the fire. When I was growing up in SoCal, they were all over the place. I think there is still one in Irvine/Mission Viejo near the I-5. I always liked them, especially the salad bar and baked potato bar.

I remember back in the late 1970's when I was in the Air Force stationed in Guam and they had what they advertised as the largest Sizzler steak house in the world (they also had the largest McDonalds and the largest KFC--mostly for the benefit of Japanese tourists and honeymooners who were flocking there at that time). Anyway, the Sizzler there had one of their "All You Can Eat Ribs" weekends. The thing is, Guamanians LOVE spareribs and they ran out of them on the first day. When the latecomers went there and found out there were no more ribs, there were almost riots. I don't think they ever had that particular promotion there again.