What Happened to Zippy's Giant Burgers After Mystery Diners? (Seattle, WA)
Mystery Diners, Season 5 Seattle, Washington
Current status
As of October 2026, Zippy's Giant Burgers has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: Google's listing, checked 2026-09-08, marks Zippy's Giant Burgers as permanently closed, and its only found web presence, a Facebook page, returned an error. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 5, Episode 9
- Aired
- Address 9614 14th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98106
- Website Facebook
- Show map
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About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.
What happened after Mystery Diners?
In the Mystery Diners episode "Mascot Mayhem" (aired 2014-03-03), the owner of Zippy's Giant Burgers told series investigator Charles Stiles about problems with the restaurant's costumed mascot at its Seattle location, according to Wikipedia's episode summary for the series. Undercover Mystery Diners investigators then worked the restaurant's floor and found that an employee had sent a substitute to wear the mascot costume while drinking on duty, according to the same summary. As Wikipedia's article on the series notes, citing its sources, Mystery Diners' end-credits disclaimer allows that events may be re-enacted for dramatic effect, and the show has drawn criticism from television critics over how staged its confrontations are.
As is typical for the series, Stiles presented the findings to the owner, who gave the original mascot employee a second chance after hearing his explanation. The episode aired amid a run of Seattle-area restaurants the series profiled in early 2014. Google Places' listing for Zippy's Giant Burgers, checked 2026-09-08, gives its address as 9614 14th Ave SW in Seattle's White Center neighborhood and marks the business as permanently closed. The only web presence found was a Facebook page for the restaurant, which returned an error message when checked the same day. No current website, reopening, or name change was located for the address.
The episode
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