The Heart Attack Grill is an American hamburger restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada (formerly located in Chandler, Arizona). It has courted controversy by serving high-calorie menu items with deliberately provocative names coupled with waitresses in sexually provocative clothing. The establishment is a hospital theme restaurant: waitresses ("nurses") take orders ("prescriptions") from the customers ("patients"). A tag is wrapped on the patient's wrist showing which foods they order and a "doctor" examines the "patients" with a stethoscope. The menu includes "Single", "Double", "Triple", and "Quadruple Bypass" hamburgers, ranging from 8 to 32 ounces (230 to 910 g) of beef (up to about 8,000 calories), all-you-can-eat "Flatliner Fries" (cooked in pure lard), beer and tequila, and soft drinks such as Jolt and Mexican-bottled Coca-Cola made with real sugar. Customers over 350 lb (160 kg) in weight eat for free if they weigh in with a doctor or nurse before each burger. Beverages and to-go orders are excluded and sharing food is also not allowed for the free food deal. Heart Attack Grill's Neonopolis location in downtown Las Vegas. The Heart Attack Grill was founded in ..........

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Heart Attack Grill
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Breastaurant
Industry
Full service Breastaurant
Founded
2005
Headquarters Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Website
www.heartattackgrill.com
he Heart Attack Grill is an
American
hamburger
restaurant in Las Vegas,
Nevada (formerly located in Chandler, Arizona). It has courted
controversy by serving high-calorie menu
items with deliberately provocative names
coupled with waitresses in sexually
provocative clothing.
The establishment is a
hospital theme restaurant:
waitresses ("nurses") take
orders
("prescriptions")
from
the
customers
("patients"). A tag is
wrapped on the patient's
wrist showing which foods they order and a
"doctor" examines the "patients" with a
stethoscope. The menu includes "Single",

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"Double", "Triple", and "Quadruple
Bypass" hamburgers, ranging from 8
to 32 ounces (230 to 910 g) of beef (up
to about 8,000 calories), all-you-caneat "Flatliner Fries" (cooked in pure
lard), beer and tequila, and soft drinks
such as Jolt and Mexican-bottled CocaCola made with real sugar. Customers
over 350 lb (160 kg) in weight eat for free if
they weigh in with a doctor or nurse before
each burger. Beverages and to-go orders are
excluded and sharing food is also not
allowed for the free food deal.
Heart Attack Grill's Neonopolis
location in downtown Las Vegas.
The Heart Attack Grill was founded in 2005
in Chandler, Arizona, by Jon Basso with the declared intent of
serving "nutritional pornography", food "so bad for you it's
shocking". The idea came when writing a marketing thesis about
fitness training studios, as
he became inspired by
stories about his clients
cheating on their diets. A
second Heart Attack Grill
opened in Dallas, Texas in
May 2011, but closed in
October 2011.

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One of the restaurant's promotions is a
reward for customers who finish a Triple or
Quadruple Bypass Burger, after which they
are placed on a wheelchair and wheeled out
to their vehicle by their "personal nurse".
The restaurant's spokesman, 261 kg Blair
River, died on March 1, 2011, aged 29, from
complications
of
pneumonia. The Arizona
location closed shortly
thereafter, on May 31,
2011.
The
Dallas
location
suffered a similar fate
within a few months after
that. According to a blog
entry in the Dallas Morning News, as of
October 12, 2011, the locks at the West
End location were changed due to
nonpayment of rent. Additionally, food
critic
Scott
Reitz of the Dallas Observer reported
being unable to reach the manager by
phone and that the restaurant's
official website had been "scrubbed of
any Dallas location information."

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On February 11, 2012, a customer
suffered what was reported to be an
apparent heart attack while eating a
"Triple
Bypass
Burger" at the
grill. Restaurant
owner Jon Basso
called 9-1-1 and the customer was taken to the
hospital. Another patron, Blair River, age 29
was known as the Grill's "Gentle Giant" and
described as an unofficial spokesman and
regular patron.[ He died of flu-related pneumonia in March 2011. In
February 2013, a second unofficial spokesman and daily patron, 52year-old John Alleman, died of
an apparent heart attack while
waiting at a bus stop in front of
the Las Vegas restaurant. Other
similar incidents include on
April 21, 2012, when a woman
fell unconscious while eating a
Double Bypass Burger, drinking
alcohol and smoking.
Menu
Double Bypass Burger & Flatliner
Fries with a bottle of Mexican Coke
The Heart Attack Grill menu consists
of eight burger varieties based on
number of half-pound patties: the

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"Single Bypass Burger," the "Double
Bypass Burger," the "Triple Bypass
Burger,",
the
"Quadruple
Bypass
Burger.", the "Quintuple Bypass Burger.",
the "Sextuple Bypass Burger.", the
"Septuple Bypass Burger." and the
"Octuple Bypass Burger." Each of the
burgers can be augmented with
"unadulterated" (not drained of the
grease from cooking) bacon slices in
quantities of five slices per patty, thus
five slices of bacon on the Single Bypass,
ten slices on the Double Bypass, 15 slices
on the Triple Bypass, and 20 slices of
bacon on the Quadruple
Bypass Burger and so-on. All
burgers are served, per patty,
with a slice of American
cheese, red onion, sliced
tomato, and Heart Attack
Grill's own unique special
sauce.
The only available side item is
"Flatliner Fries," fresh French-cut
potatoes deep fried in pure lard.
Heart Attack Grill also offers "Butterfat Shakes" in vanilla, chocolate and
strawberry flavors. This high calorie

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shake is so named because it
is made from butter fat
cream. Various packaged
candies are also available as
dessert items, most notably
the controversial candy
cigarette.
For refreshment, high sugar content sodas
are available as well as bottled water and
several brands of malt liquor and beers
served in the can. There is also a full bar
which, in keeping with the theme, serves FAT
bastard wines and liquor shots served in four
ounce novelty syringes.
Reception
Heart Attack Grill has deliberately courted
controversy as a marketing strategy. The restaurant has been
criticized
and
drawn
complaints
for
its
breastaurant
style
portrayal of nurses.
The Quadruple Bypass
Burger with 9,982 calories
has been identified as one
of the "world's worst junk

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foods". It consists of four half-pound beef patties, twenty strips of
bacon, eight slices of American cheese, a whole tomato and half an
onion served in a bun coated with lard. The
restaurant was featured on an episode of Extreme Pig-outs on the
Travel Channel, All You Can Eat on the The History Channel, World's
Weirdest Restaurants on Food Network Canada, ABC News,and on a
CBS report with Bill Geist.
Taste worth dying for
Chest Pain
Waitress worth loving for
Wheel Chair
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