Heart Attack Grill

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Entrance to the restaurant with the announcement "Over 350 lbs eats free": Guests who weigh more than 159 kg eat for free

The Heart Attack Grill is a hamburger restaurant in Las Vegas . The restaurant became known for its high-calorie dishes. The company's “Quadruple Bypass” hamburger received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records in 2013 as the world's most high-calorie hamburger. The restaurant is located at 450 Fremont Street at the main entrance to the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas.

Story and concept

John Basso (called "Dr. Jon") opened the theme restaurant with entertainment elements in Chandler , Arizona at the end of 2005 . Guests are treated as patients and given hospital gowns, the waitresses disguise as seductive nurses. Orders are prescriptions. The menu mainly offers a variety of hamburgers with up to eight slices of minced steak. If dishes are not completely eaten, the waitresses give the guests concerned a slap on the buttocks with a wooden board . If, on the other hand, a guest manages to consume the Quadruple Bypass burger , a waitress in a wheelchair will drive him to his car on request. Guests weighing over 160 kg eat for free if they have themselves weighed in public beforehand in the restaurant.

A second Heart Attack Grill opened in Dallas in May 2011 , but closed again a few months later. Also in 2011, the Chandler restaurant closed and reopened on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. There have already been two deaths associated with the restaurant: the overweight 29-year-old Blair River, who appeared as an advertising figure for the restaurant, died in March 2011. Another regular, John Alleman, suffered in February 2013 after a fatal heart attack after dining out.

public perception

Shortly after its opening, the restaurant received reports in national media such as the Wall Street Journal (video) and Fox News . Both the provocatively dressed waitresses ("Breastaurant"), the designation of the staff as nurses and doctors and the open promotion of the high-calorie, unhealthy diet were criticized.

The Heart Attack Grill has been reported several times by TV stations in North America , such as the Travel Channel (“Extreme Pig-outs”), The History Channel (“All You Can Eat”), Food Network Canada (“World's Weirdest Restaurants”), ABC News , CBS , Showtime ("7 Deadly Sins") or on Fuse TV ("Fluffy Breaks Even").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dan Barrett, Record-breaking food: a tasting menu, The world's most calorific burger (Heart Attack Grill, USA, 2013) , April 15, 2013, Guinnessworldrecords.com (in English)
  2. ↑ The Fattest Food in the World: Meat, Cheese, 8000 Calories: The "Quadruple Bypass Burger" , November 19, 2006, RP Online
  3. ↑ Macabre advertisement: Whopper advertising star died the fast food death , March 9, 2011, Tageblatt
  4. ^ A b Courtney Hutchison, Hefty Heart Attack Grill Spokesman Dies at March 29 , 2011, ABC News (in English)
  5. ↑ Martin Suter, The Heart Attack Burger has struck again , February 14, 2013, 20 minutes online
  6. ↑ Over 350 pounds? Eat Here, For Free , November 11, 2010, WSJ Video (in English)
  7. ↑ Andrea Grimes, Heart Attack Grill to make Las Vegas healthier , July 27, 2011, Dallas Eater , Vox Media (in English)
  8. ↑ Kristin Edelhauser, Cashing In On Controversy , February 26, 2007, Entrepreneur (in English)
  9. ↑ Video: Nevada Videos: Eating Contest , History.com (in English)
  10. ↑ Video: A Meal To Die For on YouTube , November 25, 2008, CBS (English)
  11. ↑ Kabita Maharana, Heart Attack Grill on Showtime's 7 Deadly Sins: Restaurant Owner 'Not Guilty' of Employee Deaths, Says Sacrifices Have to be Made , August 14, 2014, International Business Times (in English)
  12. ↑ Tina Xu, 'Fluffy Breaks Even' Returns to Heart Attack Grill , October 2, 2015, Fuse TV (in English)

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