Rolling in Dough
Put a leprechaun on the sign and call it “Carb O’Hydrate’s.”
If you sell fish, too, you can name it “Hearth and Sole”.
“The Buttered Bun”, if you don’t mind a somewhat dirty reference.
Yeasty Does It. (If your bread breas the law, is that a yeast infraction?)
Staff of Life. (Beware of punny nurses. You don’t want the Staph of Life.)
The Oldest Profession. (Heh heh.)
Stoned Crackers.
The Sugar Cube
Home of the Yeast Convection
I like bakeries named after their location. For example: Fourth Street Bakery, Dogwood Lane Bakery, Townname Bakery (if there’s already a Townname Bakery, then be Townname’s Best Bakery).
Simpson’s Bakery (Dough!)
A variation on that could be D’Oh’s Dough!
-Sweet Dreams
-Visions of Sugarplums
-The Stuff of Life[if just a bread bakery]
-Calling All Dough Nuts
-Lick Me!!!
-Sugar and Spice, and Bread too
L’oven Peace
Bread Pitt
Cake Walk
Flour Power
Loaf To Loaf You, Baby
Rising To The Occasion
Yeast Of Eden
The Bread Spread
Knead You Love
Seriously… don’t worry over it much. I’ve talked about this to lots of people starting up a business. Some worry too much about the name, and tie themselves in knots trying to devise a name that’s wittily, inspirationally perfect. If you’re selling things people want, the business will do fine even with a boring name. If you’re not, the zingiest name in the world won’t save the business. Going with a perfectly mundane name is fine. It’s worth paying attention to practical points: is it easy to remember and to spell? Can you register a website with the name (or has it already been taken?). Does it accurately convey what you do, but leave room for when you diversify the business a little?
Pinch a Loaf?
I kind of like “Firstname’s Bakery.”
Inbread Bakery (You can require all employees to wear those BillyBob teeth)
The Upper Crust (tho it seems this would be taken)
The Clever Hen (a reference to an old Mother Goose rhyme)
Kneadfull Things
I like ‘streetname’ bakeries too.
Just my two bits.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Punny names are OK, although we do want to keep things mostly dignified since we’re hoping to do a fair amount of wholesale business and we want to appear responsible and trustworthy. The store itself is in a reconstituted older shopping district and it’ll be almost entirely organic breads. The area is home to a fair number of cleverly-named businesses and it would be fun to add to the mix – within reason.
We had thought about using “Name’s Bakery,” or “X Street Bakery,” but I have a cousin with a bakery in a different state and we were afraid of causing confusion if we did internet sales. There’s also another bakery down the street from our location, and the possibility for confusion seems real if we don’t distinguish ourselves by name.
Thanks too for the best wishes. We go to the bank tomorrow to work out financing. We have several options for this, but the one we’re exploring tomorrow is the one we believe is most desirable.
Curate
The Bakery on {streetname}
Our Daily Bread
The Dusty Pin Bakery (with a pic of a rolling pin)
Free Range Bakery (organic… free range… get it??)
Boulangerie Organique (or however you say Organic Bakery in french)
The Dusty Curate Bakery (with a pic of a monk and a rolling pin)
And probably top billing in their local Yellow Pages (provided there’s not an A1 or AAA Bakery in the neighborhood)
How about “Name’s Sunrise Bakery”