Sizzler cheese toast: Gold Coast Sizzler launches takeaway for popular dinner appetiser

A slice of cheese toast used to go hand-in-hand with a trip to the Mermaid Beach cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. Now you don’t have to go inside one of the last remaining Sizzler restaurants to eat it.

A SLICE of cheese toast at Sizzler used to go hand-in-hand with a trip to the Mermaid Beach cinema for Gold Coasters in the 1980s and 1990s.

Now, one of the last remaining Sizzlers is offering the popular treat as a takeaway item in lieu of its restaurant being unable to reopen to customers because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sizzler Cheese Toast.

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The Mermaid Beach eatery has been forced to switch to offering takeaways, including its salad bar and other items, with all meals coming with the cheese toast.

“After 35 years Sizzler has attracted a very loyal following and we want to make sure those customers don’t miss out during these very unprecedented times,” said Sizzler head of operations Don Crilly.

Sizzler was a popular location on the Gold Cold Coast, particularly in the 1990s. (AAP IMAGE/Simon Bullard)

Sizzler is also offering coffee and the popular toast free to frontline healthcare workers.

“We want to particularly support and thank those in our community who are in the front line of our efforts to keep Australia safe and healthy and we will be proud to offer them a free Cheese Toast and a coffee when they drop by,” Mr Crilly said.

The Mermaid Beach Sizzler is one of the last of its kind still operating after others across the state closed.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Mermaid Beach stretch of the Gold Coast was the epicentre of a series of popular attractions, including Queensland’s first McDonalds, which opened in 1974, the Putt-Putt miniature golf course and the Mermaid Beach cinema, which operated until the early 2000s.