# Need a clever Business Name Fast
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 20, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849 "2013-12-20T21:14:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/1 "2013-12-20T21:14:47Z")
My previous thread helped me narrow down what food I want to primarily be selling in the summer vs. winter months in my resort town (ice cream and soup respectively). I’ll also have appropriate beverages and snacks to go along with ice cream and soup. Now all I need is a good business name!
I was thinking something simple like “Ice Cream Soup”… but I bet there are better names out there.
So what would you call a take out shop that sells mainly ice cream cones in the summer months and hot delicious soup in the winter months?
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/2 "2013-12-20T21:28:35Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#):
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> So what would you call a take out shop that sells mainly ice cream cones in the summer months and hot delicious soup in the winter months?
_Closed Until Further Notice_
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/3 "2013-12-20T21:30:15Z")
Cone and Kettle
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### Author:  [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/4 "2013-12-20T21:30:48Z")
I’m not sure if the straight dope message boards really counts as market research.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/5 "2013-12-20T21:34:43Z")
Coffee and Yum.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/6 "2013-12-20T21:35:32Z")
Scoop and Ladle
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### Author:  [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/7 "2013-12-20T21:39:41Z")
And **terentii** wins.
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### Author:  [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/8 "2013-12-20T21:39:49Z")
Spumoni Minestrone
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/9 "2013-12-20T21:41:37Z")
> [@TommyTutone](#):
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> Spumoni Minestrone
That’s great!
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### Author:  [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/10 "2013-12-20T21:42:51Z")
I actually like Ice Cream Soup quite a bit.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/11 "2013-12-20T21:47:29Z")
Pistachio i Gazpacho
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/12 "2013-12-20T21:50:31Z")
_Vanilla Soup_
_Souper Cone_
_The Bowl And Cone_
_Scoop And Crackers_
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### Author:  [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/13 "2013-12-20T21:59:02Z")
_The foods which are both served in bowls and eaten with spoons, but of unrelated viscosity and flavor restaurant_
I am dead serious. That will get you much more press and give your restaurant much more charm than many of the other suggestions.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/14 "2013-12-20T22:02:20Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Pistachio i Gazpacho
Makes it sound like a ritzy place with premium prices.
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### Author:  [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/15 "2013-12-20T22:11:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Makes it sound like a ritzy place with premium prices.
I had initially read that as “the pistachio gestappo” and immediately thought of the ice-cream version of the soup nazi from seinfeld.
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### Author:  [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/16 "2013-12-20T22:14:17Z")
Slop in Seconds
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/17 "2013-12-20T22:16:48Z")
Ice n Hot
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/18 "2013-12-20T23:08:39Z")
All good names. Thank you. I am leaning toward ‘Ice Cream Soup’ or ‘Scoop and Ladle’…
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/19 "2013-12-21T01:24:31Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#):
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> All good names. Thank you. I am leaning toward ‘Ice Cream Soup’ or ‘Scoop and Ladle’…
Between those two, go with “Scoop and Ladle”. You don’t want to give the impression that you are selling one very strange type of food instead of two foods they already know and love.
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-clever-business-name-fast/676849/20 "2013-12-21T01:33:03Z")
Bowl-O-Rama. 😃
Bowler’s. (Hat would make a good logo element.)
Spoons [Seasonal Diner]. (Cross a long-handled sundae spoon and a round soup spoon.)
Clever is good, but you don’t want to use a name that conveys no meaning. F’Rex, there was a store near me in California named “Tuesday Morning.” Got the SLIGHTEST clue what their trade was? Me, neither, and I lived near them for five years. Make sure your name incorporates or strongly implies food, and a select subset of food. I think “Spoons” would be deadly, but only if it was coupled with a descriptive subtitle in most uses. In a few years, everyone will know what “Spoons” is… but you have to last that long first, and “Spoons Seasonal Diner” might get you there.
Very few people will patronize a business if they don’t have a clear idea what’s on the inside of the door.
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