# Breakfast restaurant - ideas for name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094 "2014-07-14T19:00:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/61 "2014-07-15T02:13:49Z")
Biscuitry. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/62 "2014-07-15T02:14:22Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Has anyone suggested _Over Easy_? I came to suggest _Sunny Side Up_. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/63 "2014-07-15T02:14:41Z")
I second **Leaffan** ’s The Biscuit Barn. Easy to remember, homey, and what the business is built around. They’ll “get it” that you serve other things. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/64 "2014-07-15T02:17:11Z")
> [@missred](#): > > Has anyone suggested _Over Easy_? What do you know about Ma that the rest of us don’t? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/65 "2014-07-15T02:27:36Z")
I like the ‘Ma’s’ angle, but Ma’s Biscuits is too plain and not memorable enough. How about **Ma’s Wicked Biscuits**? Memorable, not too cutesy/punny, has a good run of hard consonants. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/66 "2014-07-15T03:06:52Z")
Yeah, as we currently envision it, the restaurant won’t be a table service affair - counter service and carry-out only, in all likelihood. While I like the idea of French press coffee and stuff, that’s not part of our mission. But we’ll have good coffee (already sourcing that from a local roaster,) and iced tea - sweet and unsweetened - and Dewey is right. If we’re already set up to brew iced tea, we can easily brew hot tea - we just need a good kettle or an instant hot water source. (Not the same blend of tea, though. This is one area where we don’t have to look for a good source. Luzianne is where it’s at for iced tea!) I like so many of the restaurant name suggestions - I might have to put together a poll to figure out the top two or three most popular, and then present the best to Ma for final approval. ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/67 "2014-07-15T03:11:33Z")
How about “The man eating biscuit” and have a pic of a man eating a biscuit. In Wisconsin years ago my mother had a turkey themed restaurant called “The Man Eating Turkey” with a pic of a man eating a turkey drum stick! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/68 "2014-07-15T03:20:32Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > 1-3 are spot on, but for the love of all that’s holy listen to #4! > > Good coffee is paramount to a decent breakfast place. WAY too many places make coffee that’s no more than brown water or it’s bitter as aspirin and on top of that they have the unmitigated gall to charge $3.50 for a small mug for the swill. Yeah, but free refills! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/69 "2014-07-15T03:34:19Z")
Yep, we’ll probably charge more than McDonald’s for coffee - good coffee costs more than Maxwell House - but there will be a refill station. And a discount for bringing a re-usable mug - maybe selling one with our name on it (whatever that turns out to be!) and charging a reduced price for coffee in that mug. Even though we’ll be using disposable wares for our carry-out service, we want to be as earth-friendly as possible. And grits. Restaurants don’t make good grits, and then poor tourists and transplants eat lousy grits at the Waffle House or something, and think that grits are terrible. In reality, a good bowl of cheese grits is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. We will either make good grits, or we won’t serve grits. Full stop. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/70 "2014-07-15T04:55:03Z")
Well, you didn’t like my last suggestion of leather-masked biscuit servers, but I’ll try again. _Kiss My Grits!_ _You Bet Your Biscuits!_ I feel strongly that more punctuation marks should be used in business names. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/71 "2014-07-15T05:30:02Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > IME, breakfast restaurants fail for the following reasons:. There’s another issue that seems vital: speed of service. And having enough staff to provide it. People won’t mind waiting in line behind 3 others. But nobody wants to wait in line behind 6 or 8 people. Students may be more flexible than people on their way to work, but they still have deadlines, and have to run to class after sleeping too late. During the morning rush,if you can’t serve everybody as quickly as they want, they won’t be in the mood to come back later at more quiet hours, either. If you’ve been in the business all your life, you know this, of course. But it seems to me that you may need more than one person on the register and one person behind the counter. There may only be, say, two 20-minute periods of rush hour. But if somebody opens the door , sees a long line, and then leaves immediately because he doesnt have time to wait,—he may never come back. Even if the food is great. For those 20-minute rushes, you’re going to need a second cash register. If one stupid customer tries to pay with an expired credit card that creates an error message, and then has to spend 90 seconds fumbling around in his pockets trying to find cash, you’ll be wasting several valuable minutes, and created pissed-off customers who are in line behind him. And you’ll need enough staff behind the counter so that if somebody has to run to the storeroom in the back to bring out more plastic cups, your customers won’t be standing around getting irritated and worrying that they’ll be late to work (or class). ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/72 "2014-07-15T05:38:53Z")
Dude. You call it biscuit anything and you’ve pigeonholed yourself to biscuits forever. Nadine’s. Just call it Nadine’s and sell great biscuits. Or soup. Whatever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/73 "2014-07-15T06:55:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > IME, breakfast restaurants fail for the following reasons: > > 1. They think that breakfast is an easy meal to cook, and it shows. Overcooked eggs just plain suck. Day old biscuits are called “doorstops”, and shouldn’t be served. > 2. They try to get too cute with the menu. People want breakfast, not _nouvelle cuisine_. > 3. They use too much grease and use food service ingredients, i.e., dried potatoes, inferior bacon and sausage, powdered Hollandaise mix, etc. > 4. They can’t make drinkable coffee. > > It really sounds like the OP has a handle on things and can make it work. College kids will eat as many sausage and egg biscuit sandwiches as you can make, I’m sure. There are two biscuit joints here in Portland that I’m aware of, and both have lines out the door. One isn’t far from us, which is nice. They have a guy making the biscuits behind a window as you enter the place. Nice touch. Their hash browns are from fresh potatoes and everything is cooked to order. The gravy is a bit bland, but not bad. This. We’re starved for ma&pa restaurants that can knock out the basics well. To this day I miss the one at my college. They served what is now called an egg McMuffin but it was soooooooo good. Big slab of Canadian bacon with a fried egg/cheese on a toasted (are you listening McD’s) English Muffin. Coffee that actually tasted like coffee. Fried potatoes. I’d call it Blistbe’s. If anybody asked about the name tell them it’s Breakfast Like it’s Suppose to Be. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/74 "2014-07-15T07:15:38Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Dude. You call it biscuit anything and you’ve pigeonholed yourself to biscuits forever. How about calling it “Biscuits and More” ? Have a cutesy menu, labelled “Biscuits” on one side, and “More” on the other. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/75 "2014-07-15T10:59:07Z")
What’s your mum’s first name? ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/76 "2014-07-15T11:08:55Z")
I gave the thread a quick once over, but may have missed seeing it… The Biscuit Joint? > **[How to Make a Biscuit Joint: Best Method](https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Biscuit-Joint)** > > Biscuit joints are a method for gluing boards together along their edges to create a wider slab or plank without screwing or splicing them. This technique is used for making tabletops, furniture, and cabinets, and although it requires... ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/77 "2014-07-15T11:16:30Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Are you thinking of [congee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congee)? Bingo! > [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It shall be called: The Biscuit Basket. And all the college kids will shorten it to just “the Basket”. The University of Pittsburgh had (has?) The Original Hotdog Shop. _Everyone_ called it **The Dirty O**. Heh. Wiki cite: > [@](#): > > Essie’s Original Hot Dog shop (commonly known as The Original Hot Dog Shop, The O or The Dirty O[1]) is a restaurant in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/78 "2014-07-15T11:56:28Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The OP is in Georgia, so presumably he’ll be offering sweet tea. Making that requires one to properly brew tea. So if he doesn’t ice all of it, he can offer real hot tea to his customers. That wouldn’t work for multiple reasons. First, you typically brew sweet tea from giant tea bags that make very mediocre hot tea. Second, you don’t just keep brewed hot tea sitting around ready to be poured. Third, it would be a colossal waste of time to put any effort into making and serving hot tea in Statesboro. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/79 "2014-07-15T13:53:55Z")
Since no one else seems to have mentioned it, before you settle on any name, have a lawyer check and make sure your preferred choice doesn’t conflict with any other businesses registered in your state, and that it’s also clear of trademark conflicts. You don’t need legal problems while you’re starting out. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094/80 "2014-07-15T14:14:33Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Next brainstorm: the restaurant will be located in the city of Statesboro. Everyone around here knows the song Statesboro Blues. We could call it **Wake Up Mama’s.** Our hot beverage offerings could be titled “Statesboro Brews.” (I’m honestly surprised that no one’s opened a bar by that name!) I think **Wake Up Mama’s** is _great_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-restaurant-ideas-for-name/693094.md?page=5)