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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The restaurant's menu features items like Flatliner Fries and Butterfat Shakes, as well as four varieties of "bypass burgers" with exponentially increasing fat and calorie counts. Waitresses dress as scantily-clad nurses, customers who weight over...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Founded by "Doctor" Jon Basso, the grease-soaked establishment prides itself on a sense of humor that includes dressing waitresses as nurses, rewarding the most obese customers and deliberately serving the most unhealthy items possible...Must Read...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas lived up to its name when a patron literally had a heart attack while eating at the establishment. The restaurant was originally located in Chandler, Ariz., but relocated to Las Vegas. Not known for providing...
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io9
| over 1 year ago
Man has heart attack while eating at The Heart Attack Grill If you weigh over 350 pounds, you can eat at the Heart Attack Grill for free (according to the Las Vegas eatery's slogan). But if you should keel over, gripping your chest in agony, while...
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Fox News
| over 1 year ago
A Washington, D.C.-based health advocacy group is asking the owner of a Las Vegas restaurant that prides itself on unhealthy meals to shut down after a customer suffered a medical episode and was hospitalized. Officials for the Physicians Committee...
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andPOP.com
| over 1 year ago
It was only last year that the Las Vegas' Grill's nearly 600-pound spokesperson, Blair River, died at 29-years-old. The restaurant uses slogans like Taste worth dying for, so naturally, some people thought it was an act. Although customers can get...
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The Dish Rag
| over 1 year ago
That burger, by the way, consists of three half-pound beef patties, 12 slices of bacon, three slices of American cheese and the restaurant's special sauce. There's also some tomato and onion, but that's kind of beside the point...But, Basso says he...
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National Public Radio
| over 1 year ago
Slogans for a Las Vegas restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill include "Taste worth dying for," and "Over 350 lbs?...But the burger joint's shtick of calling waitresses "nurses" complete with skimpy uniforms and serving "quadruple bypass" burgers...
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Town Journal
| over 1 year ago
In one of the more unfortunate cases of a company living up to its name, a man dining at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas had exactly what was on the menu: a heart attack...Paramedics quickly arrived to treat the customer, who is now recovering.
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ThecounT.com
| over 1 year ago
The still unnamed diner survived the burger fail and is reportedly recuperating. We all know the fate of the man hired as the spokesperson for Heart Attack Grill, he died at the age of 29 at a weight of 575-pounds. Heart Attack Grill slogans include...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| over 1 year ago
How about this for a Las Vegas-based reality show: A restaurateur opens a new joint on one of the city's busiest tourist corridors and boasts about how unhealthy people can eat greasy, fattening, choloresteral-filled meals...We think. "We make fun of...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
No one can accuse the Heart Attack Grill of false advertising. On Saturday, a man suffered a heart attack while eating at the Las Vegas restaurant, Fox News reports . The man was partway through a triple bypass burger when he began to complain of...
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The Dish Rag
| over 1 year ago
We would say that we have mixed feelings about Heart Attack Grill -- the restaurant where sexy "nurses" dole out calorie-laden monstrosities and customers over 350 pounds eat for free -- except for the small matter of our feelings being decidedly...
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Fox
| over 1 year ago
While the staff glorifies bad health people weighing over 350 pounds eat for free Basso told FOX5 he felt horrible' for the man. Tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt, Basso said. Even with our own morbid sense of humor,...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
His name and the medical condition he suffered weren't released.
