Bad Business Ideas

That’s weird-most take and bake pizza places I know of are cheaper when you take it home. (I know of a place where you can get a large for five bucks and it’s HUGE-and yummy, too!)

Okay, I’m whooshed-what’s with this one?

All right:

Sex Toy Rental Shop
Road Kill Cafe-“You kill 'em, we grill 'em!”

Just a guess here" ABC = Already Been Chewed?

Oh good god, I forgot about that one!

D’oh!

A Chinese restaurant where the staff wears T-shirts which read “Cat: The other white meat.” :smiley:

Firewood rental

Didn’t he fight Godzilla?
Anyway:

How about a restaurant that sells hot dogs. You order your hot dog with all your favorites toppings and they put it in a cup and chop it to pieces and give it back to you with a spoon.

This one actually existed. For about a year.

Hey, someone actually thinks that’s a good idea.
It’s discrimination I tell you!

Briefly, there was actually a health food store in the middle of the poorest section of town. Poor people do NOT buy health food.

How about a pirate supply store? Strictly speaking, it’s not a bad idea. But it is a weird one. It’s associated with 826 Valencia, which was set up by Dave Eggers (writer of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) to help kids develop their writing skills.

The Poison Ice Cream Parlor
Steak Suits for Lion Tamers
Solar-Powered Flashlights (a real-life invention!)
Boogergram Message Service
Ptomaine Ptidbits Cafe
Bahrain Pulled Pork Palace
Hasidic Jewish School of Lambada

Used, second-hand coffins “why spend a bundle on your funeral?”
-scorpion petting zoo
-“Manure-Is=Us”-fertilizer for the whole family!
-“Al’s Cesspool cleaning and Catering”!

A lot of people make a foray into the Insulting Greeting Cards/Tee Shirts business, but don’t stay in it for very long.

Drive-Thru Trepanations

Considering how my head was feeling yesterday, I would have given it a shot.

Actually, I seem to recall a news story some time back about a drive-thru bar - i.e. you drive up and they hand you a drink, ready to sip. There are liquor stores out there where you can back your car up to the back door and they’ll load your trunk for you. You probably have to go inside to pay for it though. But I do believe there are some actual fast-food-style drive-thru liquor stores out there now. Closed containers of course.

Anyhoo…

Texas seems to have a lot of them for some reason.

Pre-owned beer sales

Al’s House of 8 Track Tapes!

Atomic Badger Rental

Bob’s Typewriter Ribbon Re-Inking Emporium

Drive-through Massage Parlor

Vacuum tube repair by Wilbur

I’ll see you, and raise you a RCA Videodisc Rental Emporium.
Anyway…

•Starting up a small stock brokering agency…at the height of the internet-stock trading boom. (A relative tried out this one. It didn’t do so hot.)

•Opening a Nuclear Materials and Waste storage facility…in Berkeley, CA.

•Opening a “Head Shop”…in Salt Lake City. (Or maybe Branson Missouri)

•Agony Booth salon.

Safety Coffin Depot.

•House of Allergens.

Propwash and Frequency Grease vending machine.

•Confederated Slave Holdings, Amalgamated Spats, Consolidated Stove Pipe Hat Company and United Hay. (They’re…stable.)

The Supersize Speedo Shoppe.

I image that alcohol businesses and alcoholic clinics don’t do a huge business in Utah.

You want a bad business idea? How about Amway/Quixtar!

Pirates Postseason Paradise

A lounge open ONLY for Pittsburgh Pirates playoff games.

Recycled Coffins

Sanitary Landfill Gift Shop

Chicken-Fried Eggs