A restaurant in Chandler, Arizona will serve free food to anyone over 350 pounds. It's called the Heart Attack Grill, and its managers just hired a 600-pound man named Blair River to be a model in their commercials:
Blair River stands 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 600 pounds. His weight and his enthusiasm for the food at Chandler's Heart Attack Grill have won him a $100-an-hour modeling contract.
This week he shot a YouTube video commercial to promote the grill, which invites anyone over 350 pounds to eat for free.[...]
The Heart Attack Grill, at 6185 W. Chandler Blvd. near Kyrene Road, has a medical theme. Waitresses are dressed in skimpy nurses' uniforms. Customers, called patients, wear hospital gowns over their clothes. The menu features no diet drinks and high-calorie food called such memorable names as Double Bypass Burger. Fries are cooked in lard.
The restaurant is owned by former nutritionist Jon Basso, who ran a chain of seven Jenny Craig weight-loss centers in Oklahoma.
Link via J-Walk Blog | Official Website (warning: sound)
The concept of the restaurant has always struck me as funny, but I'd never eat there...and it's actually mostly because they don't have any diet sodas. I'm under no impression that a lard-burger can be offset by a diet pepsi, but I heart me some diet pepsi and get sick when drinking the regular stuff.
If only the man's last name held some sort of clue as to what kind of person he was.
I can't imagine there's very many healthy people that walk around at a comfortable 350 pounds (even professional athletes).