I’ll skip the Heart Attack Grill

I love a good burger… but oh my goodness.

Since owner Jon Basso opened Heart Attack Grill in December 2005, it has achieved widespread publicity for its 8,000-calorie Quadruple Bypass Burger, a medical theme, and a buxom waitstaff dressed as nurses that has riled public outcry as surely as it has attracted patrons.

The 3,300-square-foot, 70-seat restaurant remains a popular novelty, even if the $7.38 half-pound Single Bypass Burger outsells the cardiac-arresting $13.25, 2-pound Quadruple Bypass version. Guests also clamor for the Flat-Liner Fries cooked in lard. Basso said his restaurant is “an affordable diversion” in tough economic times.

The website proclaims the Heart Attack Grill as “a taste worth dying for.

Read the full article about the Chandler, Ariz., burger joint in Nation’s Restaurant News. Bon appetit!