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william_brasky
12/10/2006, 06:39 AM
oh, my....

http://www.heartattackgrill.com



The Heart Attack Grill — a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard — is making health-care professionals' blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu.

It is because of the waitresses' naughty nurse uniforms.

The waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits, high heels and thigh-high stockings — a male fantasy that some nursing organizations say is an insult to the profession.

Several nurses have complained to the Arizona attorney general's office, and a national nursing group has repeatedly asked Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso to stop using the outfits.

"Nurses are the most sexually fantasized-about profession," said Sandy Summers, executive director of the Center for Nursing Advocacy, based in Baltimore. "We're asking people, if they're going to have these fantasies, please don't make it so public. Move these sexual fantasies to other professions."

Basso shrugs off Summers' complaints, and refers to her and her supporters as prudes, cranks and lunatics.

"If anything, I think it glorifies nurses to be thought of as a physically attractive and desirable individual," Basso said. "There's a Faye Dunaway, Florence Nightingale hipness to it. Nobody wants to think of themselves as some old battle ax who changes bedpans for a living."

The most serious complaint Basso has faced was made to the Arizona attorney general's office by the state Board of Nursing. In September, the attorney general's office wrote Basso a letter informing him that he is illegally using the word "nurse" at his restaurant and on his Web site. Citing Arizona Statute A.R.S. 32-1636, the attorney general said only someone who has a valid nursing license can use the title "nurse."

Basso refused to remove "nurse" from his Web site but inserted an asterisk next to every nurse reference and included the following disclaimer:

"The use of the word `nurse' above is only intended as a parody. None of the women pictured on our Web site actually have any medical training, nor do they attempt to provide any real medical services. It should be made clear that the Heart Attack Grill and its employees do NOT offer any therapeutic treatments (aside from laughter) whatsoever."

The attorney general's office sent a follow-up letter on Nov. 22 saying the Web site cleared up the issue, and it was resolved.

Basso said the complaints have been good for business, "all they've done is ensure there's going to be a gajillion of these all over the country."

The Heart Attack Grill opened a year ago with a Hooters-like formula of red meat and sexy waitresses. Diners choose from among four cheeseburgers: the Single, Double, Triple and Quadruple Bypass. The Quadruple is a towering monstrosity with four half-pound beef patties, four pieces of cheese and a mound of bacon.

"Essentially, it's nutritional pornography. It's so bad for you it's shocking," Basso said.

If "patients," as customers are called, finish a triple or quadruple bypass, waitresses will push them out to their cars in wheelchairs at no additional charge.

"The service is fantastic," Steve Koebensky of Scottsdale said with a snicker. "But they're overly dressed."

Phoenix resident Amanda Price, one of the few women customers at the restaurant, said the outfits did not offend her. "You don't hear nuns complaining about pregnant nun costumes, and that's more disgraceful than sexy nurses," she said.

But Scottsdale nurse Kira Wilder, who contributed to the letter-writing campaign against the Heart Attack Grill, complained: "Why do they have to denigrate the nursing profession and sexualize nursing? It's just not necessary."

Courtney Chapman, a 20-year-old waitress at the grill, said she found nothing wrong with the uniform or the stares she gets.

"They definitely look at us, but they're guys," she said. "If our butts are coming out the bottom of our skirts, and our boobs are coming out the top of our shirts, we're kind of asking for it."

Okla-homey
12/10/2006, 07:20 AM
"They definitely look at us, but they're guys," she said. "If our butts are coming out the bottom of our skirts, and our boobs are coming out the top of our shirts, we're kind of asking for it."


Most rational comment in the whole article IMHO. I have never understood how a woman wearing something low-cut, or otherwise revealing, has the gall to get offended when d00ds stare.

The nurses who find this parody of their profession demeaning and offensive are probably ugly.;)

1stTimeCaller
12/10/2006, 07:31 AM
But Oklahoma City nurse critical_phil, who contributed to the letter-writing campaign against the Heart Attack Grill, complained: "Why do they have to denigrate the nursing profession and sexualize nursing? It's just not necessary. I'm sexy enough on my own."

:eek:

william_brasky
12/10/2006, 07:38 AM
ahem, the joint is located in Phoenix, ahem

1stTimeCaller
12/10/2006, 07:45 AM
this guy also contributed to the letter writing campaign

http://myspace-969.vo.llnwd.net/01537/96/91/1537301969_l.jpg

soonerboomer93
12/10/2006, 07:45 AM
But Oklahoma City nurse critical_phil, who contributed to the letter-writing campaign against the Heart Attack Grill, complained: "Why do they have to denigrate the nursing profession and sexualize nursing? It's just not necessary. 1tc tells me I'm sexy enough on my own."

:eek:

1stTimeCaller
12/10/2006, 07:47 AM
:eek:

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/images/buttons/report.gif

soonerboomer93
12/10/2006, 07:50 AM
heh

website (http://www.heartattackgrill.com/)

william_brasky
12/10/2006, 07:51 AM
I was simply alluding to the fact that the Fiesta Bowl and Heart Attack Grill exist in the same city.

1stTimeCaller
12/10/2006, 07:55 AM
I was simply alluding to the fact that the Fiesta Bowl and Heart Attack Grill exist in the same city.

sorry.

walkoffsooner
12/10/2006, 08:30 AM
heh

website (http://www.heartattackgrill.com/) Are they real nurses? :D

slickdawg
12/10/2006, 08:34 AM
Try Skoot's in Dallas. They use the schoolgirl schtick.

OklaPony
12/10/2006, 09:50 AM
I was simply alluding to the fact that the Fiesta Bowl and Heart Attack Grill exist in the same city.
Message received and undersood, sir. Pre-game lunch perhaps? :D

PrideTrombone
12/10/2006, 09:59 AM
Holy crap.

http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg

Harry Beanbag
12/10/2006, 10:22 AM
Heh. They sell cigarettes too. That place is awesome, I'll have to check it out.

http://www.heartattackgrill.com/cigs.htm

Jerk
12/10/2006, 10:58 AM
dang. That place is Nancy Liberal's worst nightmare.

Before you know it, they'll start selling guns and ammo.

yermom
12/10/2006, 11:00 AM
Message received and undersood, sir. Pre-game lunch perhaps? :D

this needs to happen :)

hurricane'bone
12/10/2006, 11:24 AM
Holy crap.

http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg


HOW DID WE MISS THIS PLACE FOR TWO STRAIGHT YEARS!!!!!

jk the sooner fan
12/10/2006, 11:26 AM
some people will look for any reason to be offended

i thought of this story last nite when i was watching SNL - Annette Benning's opening monologue - she took questions from the audience (all cast members), dressed as real estate agents - giving her a hard time about how she made real estate agents look crazy - from her role in American Beauty

PrideTrombone
12/10/2006, 12:27 PM
HOW DID WE MISS THIS PLACE FOR TWO STRAIGHT YEARS!!!!!

We're going next year, by God.

Scott D
12/10/2006, 12:49 PM
Holy crap.

http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg

I can feel my arteries clogging already

Tailwind
12/10/2006, 12:53 PM
Who the hell could even get that thing in their mouth?

1stTimeCaller
12/10/2006, 12:58 PM
that burger doesn't look all that tasty to me.

DeadSolidPerfect
12/10/2006, 01:17 PM
Holy crap.

http://www.heartattackgrill.com/images/quadruple_bypass_burger-xl2.jpg
Do I see a couple fried eggs in that thing?

StoopTroup
12/10/2006, 01:23 PM
No BBQ sauce?

Harry Beanbag
12/10/2006, 01:37 PM
Do I see a couple fried eggs in that thing?


No. You see four of them. :)

I've heard that burger has like 5000 calories or something ridiculous like that.

jk the sooner fan
12/10/2006, 02:38 PM
do you get a free tshirt if you finish that burger in one meal?

slickdawg
12/10/2006, 03:41 PM
do you get a free blow *** if you finish that burger in one meal?

And you wonder why the real nurses are mad.




:eek:

slickdawg
12/10/2006, 03:52 PM
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6182/burger19wa.jpg

1stTimeCaller
12/10/2006, 04:16 PM
And you wonder why c_p is mad.




:eek:

he's just acting mad.

Chuck Bao
12/10/2006, 04:47 PM
I'm totally into this new restaurant trend.

Heart attack food and all. And by all, I mean nurses on standby for some serious heart palpations.

Do they have a franchise?

josh09
12/10/2006, 05:16 PM
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6182/burger19wa.jpg


wimp.

:pop:

critical_phil
12/10/2006, 06:21 PM
he's just acting mad.


:mad:

Cam
12/10/2006, 09:46 PM
Being in Tempe, you'd think they'd hire some better lookin gals.