# Great Business Names, real or otherwise. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375 "2001-08-15T13:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Prissypoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/46a35a/32.png) [@Prissypoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prissypoo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/41 "2025-09-01T13:15:47Z")
I need a hilarious name for a handmade sign buisness. Please… ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/42 "2025-09-01T14:38:00Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > _The Simpsons_ can always be relied on to provide top-notch business names. I think my favorite has to be the Turn Your Head and Coiff salon. My personal favorite is “Snead’s Seed and Feed (formerly Chuck’s) ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/43 "2025-09-01T14:38:18Z")
There’s College Hunks Hauling Junk movers. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/44 "2025-09-01T14:49:21Z")
There’s a Vietnamese restaurant near my workplace called Wat Da Pho. (Pho is pronounced “Fu,” hence a play on “What the Fu?”) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/45 "2025-09-01T14:53:59Z")
From Bobs Burgers Footloose, prosthetics. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/46 "2025-09-01T15:32:36Z")
In Singapore, I saw “Coiffure de Pong” In Amsterdam, “Café de Pits” and Restaurant Wanka. In Barcelona, Quim Bar ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/47 "2025-09-01T15:40:04Z")
I think this came from one of Cecil’s books: Pen Island. Makes for a great website URL. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/48 "2025-09-01T16:01:09Z")
> [@Syzygy](#): > > Hartford, CT - The Foo King Kitchen Chinese Restaurant. I love it. Since this thread has been raised from the life-challenged … - We have a Pho King here in Tacoma. - There is (or was) a Chinese restaurant in Portland called Hung Far Low. - My favorite (fictional, from Dudley Do-Right): one of Snidely Whiplash’s fronts for his nefarious schemes was a building demolition firm called “Edifice Wrecks.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375/49 "2025-09-01T16:31:48Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > We have a Pho King here in Tacoma I’ve been, though Le-Le’s on MLK (across the street from Bing Crosby’s birthplace) was always our go-to Here in Georgia there’s some rustic names: **Tote-a-Poke** convenience store, and, from the days before self-service when you’d hand your list over the counter, the **Jot-em-Down** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375.md?page=2)