KidGalactus
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A lot of you have heard of the Heart Attack Grill, no doubt.
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/heart-attack-grill.html
If have not, the Heart Attack grill is a burger joint in Las Vegas, Nevada which sells outrageous menu items as a kind of thrill experience.
The burgers have names like single, double, or triple bypass burger and the burgers are extremely high calorie. The quadruple bypass burger weighs in at about 8,000 (I have seen it estimated at nearly 10,000) calories, and the restaurants burger ceiling is represented by the octuple bypass burger which is eight patties and 40 slices of bacon.
Since it is double the size of the quadruple bypass, I guess it is reasonable to assume it contains about 16,000 (or 20,000) calories.
The restaurants has a sort of tongue in cheek "this food will kill" you theme to it's menu. They outfit patrons in hospital gowns and the waitresses all dress up as nurses. To further illustrate this point, the "vegan option" at the restaurant is a single cigarette.
I am not really sure where to put this, but they also have a policy stating that if you weigh more than 350 lbs, you eat free.
I think this video is a pretty good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAalTacfdEM
Over the last few years several people connected to the restaurant have died of heart attacks. When your restaurant is called "The Heart Attack Grill", people notice that kind of stuff, so it ended up on a few news outlets, where it is strongly implied that the restaurant caused these heart attacks.
The owner, for his part, instead of seeming troubled, really kind of doubles down on the restaurant premise. He seems fairly unapologetic and insists that he is trying to prove a point. That point being that all fast-food is bad for you, and unlike other restaurants, at least he's being honest.
This video kind of illustrates what I'm talking about:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/my-f...ack-grill-s-basso-iJoqlgeOQ4~Xf~OgRbwOhA.html
Ok, so, questions:
- If this guy (Basso) is purposefully trying to induce heart attacks in his patrons to prove a point about obesity in America, should he be stopped? Does the idea that the public needs to be safe override the need for business to be unfettered?
- Is it reasonable, or unreasonable to assume that because you eat at a public restaurant in the united states, that you are somehow protected from intentional harm by the people who run said restaurant?
- I mean, since the tone of the restaurant is kind of fun and tongue-in-cheek, is it unreasonable for people to assume he's also kidding when he says his food will kill them?
In other words, does the restaurants sense of humor make people less likely to take the dangerous nature of this place seriously?
- What, if any, duty do the proprietors of restaurants have to the health and well-being of the people that eat there?
TL;DR There's a fast food place that advertises its food will kill you; people die at this place sometimes. Does this place have any responsibility to not kill people?
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/heart-attack-grill.html
If have not, the Heart Attack grill is a burger joint in Las Vegas, Nevada which sells outrageous menu items as a kind of thrill experience.
The burgers have names like single, double, or triple bypass burger and the burgers are extremely high calorie. The quadruple bypass burger weighs in at about 8,000 (I have seen it estimated at nearly 10,000) calories, and the restaurants burger ceiling is represented by the octuple bypass burger which is eight patties and 40 slices of bacon.
Since it is double the size of the quadruple bypass, I guess it is reasonable to assume it contains about 16,000 (or 20,000) calories.
The restaurants has a sort of tongue in cheek "this food will kill" you theme to it's menu. They outfit patrons in hospital gowns and the waitresses all dress up as nurses. To further illustrate this point, the "vegan option" at the restaurant is a single cigarette.
I am not really sure where to put this, but they also have a policy stating that if you weigh more than 350 lbs, you eat free.
I think this video is a pretty good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAalTacfdEM
Over the last few years several people connected to the restaurant have died of heart attacks. When your restaurant is called "The Heart Attack Grill", people notice that kind of stuff, so it ended up on a few news outlets, where it is strongly implied that the restaurant caused these heart attacks.
The owner, for his part, instead of seeming troubled, really kind of doubles down on the restaurant premise. He seems fairly unapologetic and insists that he is trying to prove a point. That point being that all fast-food is bad for you, and unlike other restaurants, at least he's being honest.
This video kind of illustrates what I'm talking about:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/my-f...ack-grill-s-basso-iJoqlgeOQ4~Xf~OgRbwOhA.html
Ok, so, questions:
- If this guy (Basso) is purposefully trying to induce heart attacks in his patrons to prove a point about obesity in America, should he be stopped? Does the idea that the public needs to be safe override the need for business to be unfettered?
- Is it reasonable, or unreasonable to assume that because you eat at a public restaurant in the united states, that you are somehow protected from intentional harm by the people who run said restaurant?
- I mean, since the tone of the restaurant is kind of fun and tongue-in-cheek, is it unreasonable for people to assume he's also kidding when he says his food will kill them?
In other words, does the restaurants sense of humor make people less likely to take the dangerous nature of this place seriously?
- What, if any, duty do the proprietors of restaurants have to the health and well-being of the people that eat there?
TL;DR There's a fast food place that advertises its food will kill you; people die at this place sometimes. Does this place have any responsibility to not kill people?
