This week’s Mid-week Wizbang Contest is for the most clever business names. I’m looking for puns, innuendo, and downright ingenious terms. To cite three examples I’ve seen:
A restaurant outside Baltimore called Cluck-U Chicken; a hair styling salon in Plymouth, NH named Curl Up And Dye; and my favorite used computer store in Salem, NH, MicroSeconds.
Bonus points will be awarded for real businesses, but they do not have to actually exist.
Winners should be announced Thurdsay.
J.
From the Simpsons and memoriaized by James Lileks: “Sneed’s Seed & Feed (Formerly Chuck’s)”
And I do believe I saw a sign by the road near Hilton Head Island that invited dinning at the “Squat ‘n’ Gobble.”
Finally, some years ago a local (DC) radio show called a business in (to the best of my recollection) Massachusetts called “Bunghole Liquors.”
Maybe that’s where Cornholio works now.
My contribution:
Halliburgers — A Cheney-owned fast-food chain in Iraq.
In Denver, there used to be a record store named Gopher Baroque.
There is a bar (known as a hangout for symphony musicians) named My Brother’s Bar.
And there is a local disposal company (EDS Waste Solutions) which uses the slogan “Five generations going to waste.”
Diesel Fried Chicken
Somehow I think it’s closed now…
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While driving around Ipswich, England last summer we noticed a local accounting firm called Manning & Girling (manningandgirling.co.uk). Seems to me the partners ought to offer temporary staffing services as well.
Ocean City, MD has Big Pecker’s Bar and Grill (big-peckers.com) and its sister place is called the Brass Balls Saloon & Bad Ass Cafe (brassballssaloon.com)
A salon in Bellevue, WA offering manicures and tanning beds is called:
Tan me, Nail me
Ha! Try not to picture that in your mind!
New Business:
THE GEEK SQUAD.
ugh
Cindy
A ship recently launched and delivered to Hong Kong owners [therefore maybe a business in that shipowning companies are often single vessel entities] : m.v. Titan Uranus.
Real.
Another Mr. Dick in business, this time in Sydney or Melbourne Australia – with vehicles proudly bearing the slogan : Dick Polishing Services.
Real.
How about The Edward Kennedy Institute of Advanced Motoring ?
BMC in Houston has an internal company eateries. Since this is a comptuer software company, the place is called
Juan’s & Z Rose
I thought a better name would have been
Url’s
A buddy of mine grew up in Nazareth, PA. He’s always said that someday he’s going to move back there and open a deli named “Cheeses of Nazareth.”
There is a gay realtor in the Phoenix area whose name escapes me, but whose slogan is:
“John Smith: Puttin the ‘homo’ in homeowner.”
(Obviously not his real name.)
Friend of mine is opening a computer shop for buidling and repairing computers. He didn’t like my suggestion for a company name … FAQ U Computers
Oh well
I have three contributions:
A tavern in Dubuque, IA called “Whitey’s Bar X”
A strip joint in East Dubuque, IL called “The Land of Mint and Honey” owned by a lady whose first name is Mint.
And a Vietnamese noodle joint in Madison, WI called simply, “I’m Here”