Restaurant offers free food - for fat diners only

[Cao Pi]

Restaurant offers free food - for fat diners only

Published Nov 13 2010

Overweight diners at a US restaurant can now eat for free - if they weigh more than 158 kg. The unusual promotion takes place at the appropriately-named Heart Attack Grill, in Chandler, Arizona in the US. Managers there have just hired 273-kg Blair River to promote the special offer.

Double Bypass Burger...The food is served by staff dressed in nurses’ uniforms ​

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Aside from his weight, River's love and enthusiasm for the food at the restaurant helped him to land the US$106-an-hour modelling contract, which required him to shoot a YouTube commercial. The Grill has a medical theme and customers are required to wear hospital gowns over their clothes as they are waited on by staff dressed in nurses' uniforms, serving up high calorie food including the popular Double Bypass Burger. No diet drinks are stocked. Ironically, the restaurant is owned by former nutritionist Jon Basso, who used to run a chain of seven weight-loss centres in Oklahoma.