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Ariz. Waitresses Dress As Naughty Nurses
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.
  Patrons eat lunch, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, at the Heart Attack Grill in Tempe, Ariz. The servers at the restaurant are called "nurses", because they wear minimal nurses attire and have angered a group of real Arizona nurses who say the servers demean their profession. (AP Photo/Matt York) (Matt York - AP) 
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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."
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On the Net:
Heart Attack Grill: http:/
Center for Nursing Advocacy: http:/
Arizona State Board of Nursing: http:/
