Located amongst the glitz and glamour of downtown Las Vegas Nevada, this isn't your grandma's hamburger joint. Its done up to look like a hospital with waitresses dressed as sexy nurses and waiters as doctors. Added touches such as toe-tags tied around patrons' wrists indicating their order and customers being referred to as "patients". Perhaps the most intriguing are the menu items which include the Single, Double, Triple or Quadruple Bypass hamburgers, each with the corresponding number of beef patties. The buns are coated with lard and, if one is so moved, they can add bacon--5 slices per patty to be exact! Also on the menu are flatliner fries ( the only side item--deep fried in pure lard) and a bevy of sugary sodas and butter fat shakes made with--what else- but butter fat cream. Lest I forget, for the faint of heart they do offer bottled water.
The tongue and cheek humor of using a hospital theme is not only clever, it serves as foreshadowing! As Americans we are constantly searching for that "next best thing" and originality keeps places like Heart Attack Grill relevant and intriguing. Everyone's got a gimmick! I almost forgot to add that Heart Attack Grill's special incentive. "Patients" over 350lbs. eat for free--is this adding insult to injury or a testament to American gluttony? Let your cardiologist decide...
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Poisonous Portions ALKESTIS ALEXIOU
ReplyDeleteChefs across America are made to answer this big question: who is responsible, chefs or dining customers, for the extraordinarily large portions of food up for consumption everyday in restaurants across the nation. 58% of chefs interviewed for the survey from Pennsylvania State University report their views on it as the diner’s responsibility to eat appropriate amount of food out of the plate given to them by order, even or especially when the dishes served them are of extraordinary portions. Other chefs in part of the survey seem not to see the problem, a mere 17% of a set of 300 chefs admit to producing and serving entrees of large or extra large quantity. The issue is however very real, and a topic of debate in the American Obesity Society that meets every year. There is evidence to support the notion that America is stuffing her dining customers with portions two to four times the size recommended by the government. An American professor of nutritional sciences at New York University set out to restaurants and collected data on the portions being served; finding that the amount of food served was significantly greater that serving sizes recommended when health is the valued goal. Also the rate of wasted food is a heart-wrenching 30% of each plate, enough to solve global starvation problems if correct allocation was instilled. In general, America is staring to notice the phenomenon of large plates, the obligation to serve and eat what is served to you, obesity and just who capitalizes on this unbalanced exchange of supply and demand of food. There has been a steadily increasing rate of food finding its way to customer’s plates since the 1970s in this country, and the only way to bring back nutritional normalcy throughout the nation would be a gradual and restaurant-induced reduction of serving sizes.
source: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-10-21-portions-restaurants_x.htm
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ReplyDeleteThere used to be a restaurant in New Jersey that offered a deal for customers; if u finish a particular sandwich, you get a free t-shirt. Now, this wasn't your ordinary sandwich. It was huge! It had everything inside of it and was in no way healthy. Personally, I've never had it. I'm sure this isn't the only restaurant that offers these types of deals to customers but lets be honest, what are they promoting? Yes, I agree that its funny and entertaining but does health even enter the mind? I guess not which is a little shocking to me. Nowadays we know so much about obesity and its effects on Americans, yet people still decide to eat these types of unhealthy and overly large sized portions. This restaurant is no longer around but I don't think it's because of this option they had on the menu. However, something needs to be done about it and saying all these things are nice but then they must be put into action. For example, the TV show "The Biggest Loser" has done wonderful things for people, changing their lives and their family's lives forever. That is just one example yet there is still much more that has to get done to fix this national problem.
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