Jon Basso, owner of the Arizona based Heart Attack Grill (“A Taste Worth Dying For”) is suing fellow medically themed ‘restaurant’, Heart Stoppers Sports Grill, Florida, for pinching its ideas!
The Heart Attack Grill, whose menu features culinary delights such as the single through to quadruple bypass burger (four giant patties!), “flatliner fries” (deep fried in pure lard), and refreshing tooth decaying “Jolt Cola”, is locked in a federal legal battle with rival Heart Stoppers over similarities between the two greasy fast food joints.
Basso’s lawyer, Robert Cane, claims that the "Heart Attack Grill is the originator of the medically-themed hamburger grill” and is said to have found up to 30 ways in which Heart Stoppers is similar, including the alarming offer of free food to fatties over 350 pounds! Heart Stoppers Grill denies it has ripped off Basso's ideas.
"It is not even related, it is a totally different concept," said its lawyer Eric Lee. "The owner was a rescue worker, he has a medical background, and so what he tried to do is a medically-themed restaurant.
"As far as I know their menu is quiet limited, they serve burgers, fries and alcohol and that's it. Whereas we, as a family restaurant, serve a whole bunch of things, like chicken wings."
I’m not interested in who wins to be totally honest, but I do find it odd that neither macabre establishment has itself been sued up until now.
Bed pan of butter anyone? No? Didn’t think so!
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