Heart Attack Grill saw 102x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Heart Attack Grill was an American independent restaurant in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It had restaurants in Arizona (2005-2011) and Texas (2011), but its longest running location was in Las Vegas, Nevada where it operated from October 2011 to May 2026. The restaurant served junk food deliberately high in fat, sugar, and cholesterol, and its staff wore hospital-themed uniforms.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-08-03, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Illnesses and deaths

What changed that day

The article grew by 2 characters that day. The largest single addition was 31 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-03 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.