Heart Attack Grill

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The Heart Attack Grill is a Tempe, Arizona burger restaurant that has become internationally known due to being criticized by the Arizona Board of Nursing and Baltimore-based Center for Nursing Advocacy for putting its waitresses in naughty nurse uniforms.

When a customer orders a Triple or Quadruple Bypass burger and finishes his or her "procedure", the nurses wheel them outside on wheelchairs.

Contents

[edit] Menu

  • Single Bypass Burger
  • Double Bypass Burger
  • Triple Bypass Burger
  • Quadruple Bypass Burger
  • Cigarettes
  • French Flatliner Fries
  • Beer & Soda
  • Wheelchair Service


[edit] Criticism

On September 1, 2006, after a complaint by the Arizona State Board of Nursing, the Arizona State Attorney General's office sent Basso a letter warning him that following "Arizona Statute A.R.S. 32-1636, only a person who holds a valid and current license to practice professional nursing in this state ... pursuant to sections 32-1668 may use the title 'Nurse'."[1] In response, Basso put a disclaimer on his Web site, saying, "Heart Attack Grill nurses are NOT REAL NURSES."[2][3] The attorney general's office sent a follow-up letter on November 22 saying this resolved the issue.[4] On November 17, 2006, the Arizona State Board of Nursing met and decided not to take any action against the Heart Attack Grill.[5]

However, Sandy Summers, RN, MSN, MPH, founder and Executive Director of the Baltimore-based Center for Nursing Advocacy, started a separate campaign to get the restaurant to stop using naughty nurse themes for its wait staff. The Center says the association of nursing with sex discourages real nurses and contributes to the nursing shortage, a global public health crisis.[6] The center started a letter writing campaign, and tried to get real nurses to hand out fliers outside the restaurant.[2] The complaints incited a backlash against Summers, who has been criticized as being humorless and politically correct.[7]

Meanwhile, the controversy has made the grill famous. Basso says the complaints have been good for business, and have prompted him to try to open a chain of similar restaurants across the country.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Re: Use of the Protected Title 'Nurse'", letter from Daniel R. Christl, Arizona Assistant Attorney General, to Jon Basso, owner of the Heart Attack Grill, September 1, 2006, hosted on the Heart Attack Grill site
  2. ^ a b
  3. ^ "Heart Attack Grill Nurses are actually NOT REAL NURSES" Heart Attack Grill page on controversy and threat of legal action
  4. ^ a b
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  6. ^ "Real nurses want 'naughty nurse' off menu" Center for Nursing Advocacy press release, October 26, 2006
  7. ^ "Grill of my dreams a heart stopper", by Chad Graham, Luci Scott, The Arizona Republic, November 30, 2006

[edit] External links

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