Diner Dies Of Heart Attack Outside Heart Attack Grill

By Author: Steve Robinson
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Tourists are drawn to Las Vegas in part because of cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, cheap vacation packages, and a wide variety of different dining options.

One of Vegas’ more unusual restaurants is named “Heart Attack Grill” and is infamous for its calorie laden menu and waitresses in nurse garb. A daily customer, John Alleman, and unofficial mascot for the restaurant, died Monday, February 11th, after collapsing the prior week while waiting at a bus stop in front of the restaurant.

Although never an employee, this person had been a regular customer of the restaurant since it opened in October of 2011. In fact he inspired a “Patient John” caricature on the Heart Attack Grill’s menu, clothing line, and merchandise.

Several patrons of the restaurant have experienced health problems. In February 2012 a man was hospitalized with what appeared to be a heart problem after consuming a 6,000 calorie “Triple Bypass Burger.” Two months later a woman suffered a similar fate while eating a “Double Bypass Burger.”

The restaurant sports a slogan claiming “a burger to die ...
... for.” Free meals are provided to people weighing in excess of 350 pounds. There is a sign which reads “Caution: This establishment is bad for your health.”

One of the items on the menu is an 8,000 calorie “Quadruple Bypass Burger” which comes with four half pound beef patties, eight slices of American cheese, a whole tomato, and half of an onion served in a lard coated bun. Other menu options include butterfat milkshakes and “flatliner fries” cooked in lard.

The restaurant’s owner observed that Alleman’s death was a “wake up call” but said that it will not prevent him from touting calorific laden foods. He noted “The grill is where you can be yourself. We accept people as they are…People have got to live their lives.”
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