It was formerly located in Chandler, Arizona. The restaurant serves deliberately unhealthy junk food that is high in fat , sugar , and cholesterol , and its staff wear hospital-themed uniforms. The establishment is a hospital - theme restaurant : where all waitresses wear "nurse" outfits. Each patient dons a hospital gown and wristband before ordering, and those who do not finish their food will receive a paddle - spanking by one of the "nurses" with the option to buy the paddle afterwards.
The menu is generally themed around items that are exceptionally high in calories and fat. Customers over lb kg in weight can eat at the restaurant for free. The Heart Attack Grill was founded in in Tempe, Arizona , by Jon Basso, with the declared intent of serving "nutritional pornography", [ 9 ] food "so bad for you it's shocking". On February 18, , a D.
However, the owner did not close and instead defended his restaurant. The restaurant's spokesman, pound kg Blair River, died on March 1, , aged 29, from complications of pneumonia. On February 11, , a customer suffered what was reported to be an apparent heart attack while eating a "Triple Bypass Burger" at the restaurant.
Basso later said, "I actually felt horrible for the gentleman because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt. Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that. On April 21, , a woman fell unconscious while eating a Double Bypass Burger, drinking alcohol and smoking. In February , an unofficial spokesman and daily patron, year-old John Alleman, died of an apparent heart attack while waiting at a bus stop in front of the restaurant.
Heart Attack Grill has deliberately courted controversy as a marketing strategy. It was also in the tenth episode of the second season of the television program Viajeros Cuatro , [ 39 ] also dedicated to Las Vegas.
