# Turn off restaurant names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350 "2018-06-19T01:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/1 "2018-06-19T01:30:47Z")
We have a place in town called the Genghis Grill, after a guy mercilessly took over much of the world and killed millions. Does it serve roast peasants? In a few hundred years will we have Hitler’s Oven, Pol’s Pot, and Stalin’s Frostee Freeze? Anyone know of any other somewhat alarming restaurant names? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/2 "2018-06-19T01:34:36Z")
Dahmer’s Diner? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/3 "2018-06-19T01:40:06Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > In a few hundred years will we have Hitler’s Oven, Pol’s Pot, and Stalin’s Frostee Freeze? Rather than Hitler’s Oven, how about [Hitler’s](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/world/asia/24iht-fuhrer.html) [Cross](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/S6I1HGwO3WI/AAAAAAABGcc/s5jg41Kpd9Q/s1600-h/hitler_themed_restaurants_02.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/4 "2018-06-19T01:48:19Z")
The [University of Colorado Bolder](https://www.colorado.edu/umc/dining/alferd-packer) have named their cafeteria after Alferd Packer. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/5 "2018-06-19T02:40:28Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > We have a place in town called the Genghis Grill, after a guy mercilessly took over much of the world and killed millions. Not great in terms of PR, but I would assume they’re going for the Mongolia reference, and I do like a good Mongolian grill. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/6 "2018-06-19T03:08:56Z")
The sea food chain Legal Sea Foods ([https://www.legalseafoods.com](https://www.legalseafoods.com)) bugs me. If your marketing strategy is that you meet the legal requirements necessary to operate a seafood restaurant, I’m gonna just go ahead and give it a pass. I’ll head down the street for Edible Steaks or maybe Nontoxic Subs. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/7 "2018-06-19T03:11:47Z")
“Trump Tower.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/8 "2018-06-19T03:14:19Z")
There’s a donut place called “The Glory Hole” somewhere in downtown Toronto. I’d google it but, well, you know… ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/9 "2018-06-19T03:15:37Z")
There’s a Chinese restaurant in my city called Food Lee. Really appealing, huh? I’ve never eaten there, but I’ve heard it’s actually very good. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/10 "2018-06-19T03:17:02Z")
Here in Toronto, there’s The J&W Restaurant. On their flyers, the ampersand actually looks more like an “E.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/11 "2018-06-19T03:30:50Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The [University of Colorado Bolder](https://www.colorado.edu/umc/dining/alferd-packer) have named their cafeteria after Alferd Packer. I used to eat there regularly when I was at CU in the 1980s. The Packerburger was pretty good. On Alferd Packer Day they would serve a special menu with a giant hamburger shaped like a human leg and cut pieces off for individual servings.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/12 "2018-06-19T03:33:02Z")
I’ve seen a Greek restaurant called [Tantalus.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus) Whether that’s related to the food(long pig) or the service(nonexistent) is left to the audience. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/13 "2018-06-19T03:33:57Z")
They sent in my area but I still don’t know what the hell an Au Bon Pain is. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/14 "2018-06-19T03:35:38Z")
Donner Party and Grill? Dahmer’s BBQ? ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/15 "2018-06-19T03:37:44Z")
Pho restaurants seem to go in for punny names (“Pho King” is one near me) almost as often as sewing stores (“Make it Sew!”)…they all make me want to puke. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/16 "2018-06-19T03:39:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > I’ve seen a Greek restaurant called [Tantalus.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus) Whether that’s related to the food(long pig) or the service(nonexistent) is left to the audience. Better than the restaurant Sisyphus. You give a waiter your order, wait half an hour, then a different waiter says the first one went on break and takes your order again… ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/17 "2018-06-19T03:39:26Z")
My Dung. It was on Penn Ave in Pittsburgh in the early '90s. It might have been a Thai place, but I never cared to go find out for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/18 "2018-06-19T03:44:36Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > My Dung. > > It was on Penn Ave in Pittsburgh in the early '90s. It might have been a Thai place, but I never cared to go find out for obvious reasons. For more than 30 years, there has been a Vietnamese restaurant in Des Moines called A Dong (although not in the same location the whole time). I ate there several times in its early days, when I still lived there. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/19 "2018-06-19T03:46:08Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > They sent in my area but I still don’t know what the hell an Au Bon Pain is. “At/to good bread.” > **[Au Bon Pain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_Bon_Pain)** > > Au Bon Pain (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}French pronunciation: \[o bɔ̃ pɛ̃\], meaning "at the good bread") is an American fast casual restaurant, bakery, and café chain headquartered in Richardson, Texas, which operates 175 locations in the United States, Thailand, and Taiwan. The company is currently owned by AMPEX Brands. > Au ... ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350/20 "2018-06-19T03:50:24Z")
For me? “Soy” anything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-restaurant-names/816350.md?page=2)