The Heart Attack Grill has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/DoubleBypass Recent posts report a 350+ pound diner received seven free Single Bypass Burgers in one visit, that no 350+ pound woman (as of June 12) had accepted the free food offer and that one diner ate 2 Quadruple Bypass burgers in 45 minutes.

The CBS Sunday Morning segment about the Heart Attack Grill was rerun yesterday.

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The website for Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub reports that it will appear on Extreme Pig Outs on the Travel Channel on April 8 at 9 pm. A list of the restaurants which will appear on the program is available, which include the Heart Attack Grill and Jack n Grill

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“Dr.” Jon Basso of the Heart Attack Grill has sent the following email:

I was hoping that you could alert the EatFeat fans that the Food Channel is launching a whole new program called “Outrageous”. They’ll be covering different outrageous things in the world of food and have contracted with Page Productions to shoot it for them. The inaugural episode will be a half hour long feature about the Heart Attack Grill. They’re going to film it on Saturday March 28th in Chandler Arizona.
I was hoping that with your influence we could get a visit from some of the better competitors out there. It’d be great exposure for everyone and might shift the direction of the new Outrageous Series more toward the world of competitive eating. Any help would be much appreciated!

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The website for the Heart Attack Grill has a page announcing that customers weighing 350 pounds or more will receive free food (drinks are not included). Sharing and taking out food are not allowed and diners will have to be weighed by the restaurant’s staff to be eligible for the offer.

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Jon Basso of the Heart Attack Grill has emailed the following information

I’d like to let you know that the Travel Channel has a new series called “Extreme”. This SATURDAY THE 27th they are shooting there only restaurant segment called Extreme Restaurants. They’ve chosen just three restaurant in the world and we’re lucky enough to be one of them. They’d asked me if any competitive eaters will be present and I’ve told them that I’ll try to put the word out to get some folks to come in on Saturday.

I wonder if this is the same program that recorded at Denny’s Beer Barrel earlier this month.

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(From The Dish) The segment about the Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona that was televised on CBS News Sunday Morning is now available on cbsnews.com. Bill Geist of CBS News attempts the Quadruple Bypass Burger challenge, which reportedly contains 8,000 calories.

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The Heart Attack Grill’s web site has set up a news page which says that a segment will be recorded on Saturday to be televised on CBS News Sunday Morning. It does not say if the segment will be broadcast on November 9 or later. The Grill will also appear on HDNet’s Deadline on November 20.

The online “Wall of Fame” listing the fastest finishers of the Quadruple Bypass Burger appears to have been dropped.

update The segment was televised on November 23 and is available online.

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• Cartoons added to the Heart Attack Grill’s online wall of fame (see above) (from Dr. Jon)
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The online Wall of Fame at HeartAttackGrill.com has been restored. There is also a new picture of record holder Joey Chestnut on the home page.

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HeartAttackGrill.com has been under construction for the past several weeks and none of the links on it are currently active. There is no apparent link location to an online “Wall of Fame”.

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(from heartattackgrill.com) There is an article about the Heart Attack Grill and its owner, “Dr.” John Basso, in entrepreneur.com:

His advice for wannabe entrepreneurs? “I’d tell people to create controversy,” suggests Basso, who refers to himself as the Patch Adams of the restaurant industry. Though he won’t release any financial information, Basso insists that word-of-mouth marketing has given the grill plenty of business. “What I’ve got, in marketing terms, is the purple cow,” he says. “We’ve designed something that people talk about naturally. We’ve never spent one penny, and never will spend one penny on advertisements. We simply have a website, and that’s it.”

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heartattackgrill.com says a webcast reality show will begin filming at the restaurant in March.

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There are currently 20 videos about the Heart Attack Grill currently available on youtube, including a segment filmed for Japanese TV and “Dr. Jon” and “Nurse” Caterina’s interview on Fox News.

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Pictures of Joey Chestnut at the Heart Attack Grill when he broke the Quadruple Bypass Burger record, taken by Edward Delgado, are now available on that restaurant’s website.

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John Stossel of ABC News “20/20″ has written a column for the Jewish World Review about the Attorney General of Arizona’s attempt to prevent the Heart Attack Grill from outfitting its waitresses in nurses costumes.

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heartattackgrill.com reports that Joey Chestnut finished the Quadruple Bypass Burger in 1:42 on December 19, less than half of the previous record of 3:55 held by Jed Donahue.

The Heart Attack Grill has set up an online Wall of Fame which will eventually list the top 100 times for the Quadruple Bypass Burger. Nurse Caterina has the fastest women’s time of 8:20

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The home page of the Heart Attack Grill reports that Jed Donahue broke his own Quadruple Bypass burger record by completing that sandwich in 3 minutes and 55 seconds, almost 2 minutes less than his previous record of 5:39.

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John Stossel’s segment from Friday’s 20/20 about the controversial nursing outfits for the Heart Attack Grill’s waitresses can be viewed at http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2662274

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The Heart Attack Grill reports that it will be the subject of John Stossel’s “Give Me a Break” segment on 20/20 tonight. 20/20 will start at 9pm instead of the usual 10pm airtime.

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The Heart Attack Grill announces that the ABC News program 20/20 will have a segment about that restaurant on Friday.

In other Heart Attack Grill news, “Nurse” Caterina defeated a radio DJ in a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest. Could “Nurse” Caterina be the successor to Carlene LeFevre as the Queen of the Southwestern competitive eating?

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(from Wing Tut) The Heart Attack Grill’s controversy with nursing advocates made CNN and can be viewed online at: http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2006/11/09/beyer.heart.attack.grill.knxv
The clip originally appeared on local news and can be downloaded (along with another local news clip) at http://nursingadvocacy.org/press/coverage/profiles.html#heart_attack

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The East Valley Tribune has an article about the Heart Attack Grill’s dispute with nursing organizations in which the owner of the restaurant, Jon Busso is quoted as saying “To say there is any massagany (sic) here is absolutely ridiculous”

It is somewhat difficult to accept the denial of misogyny in light of the restaurant’s blog entry for October 25:

The entire Grill was taken aback at the sight of this woman as she literally decimated a Quadruple Bypass Burger in front of our very eyes. Every macho man at the bar suddenly gave up his chauvinistic preconceptions of meat being a “man’s game” when she put us all to shame.

SADLY THOUGH, we found out that she was cheating! It turns out that she’s four months pregnant, so it’s obvious the little guy inside of her was helping her eat all that beef in record time. Our Quadruple Bypass Burger challenge is a sport of honor among gentlemen. Her cheating brought such disgrace to the Grill that we had to take her out back and work her over a bit. Hey, I know what you’re all thinking, but we confined our punches to the upper rib cage section to avoid the fetus. I mean we’re not Barbarians for Christ sakes!

Absolutely hilarious, if you find violence against pregnant women a laughing matter. The claims of male superiority in meat eating are difficult to accept given that Sonya Thomas is the only person to win the 9 pound Barrick Burger contest and Kate Stelnick and Lori Weiss are the only people to complete Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 96er burger. Closer to the Grill, 115 pound Becky White of Tucson has completed the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan Grill.

The nurses have put out a press release detailing their grievances against the restaurant.

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