# What are your favorite names of small businesses? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165 "2010-10-05T19:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/61 "2010-10-08T14:24:09Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > There were a couple of dog-oriented businesses in town that we liked the names of - one was **Sit Happens** (dog training) and the other was **Doggie Style** (dog grooming). Can’t recall the location, but I once passed a doggie daycare place called **Yappy Trails**. I can’t believe no one has mentioned that 50’s classic, **The Dew Drop Inn**. When Japanese small cars were first popular, Palo Alto had a repair shop called **The Japanese Beetle**. Also in the bay area, **The Bay City Screw and Bolt Company**. ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/62 "2010-10-09T02:12:28Z")
Never been there, but a bar in Alaska halfway between Fairbanks and somewhere else is called Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn. Long gone, a campus soup & salad place at Bowling Green State University was called the Bowl and Greenery. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/63 "2010-10-09T03:10:55Z")
There’s another (or used to be) **The Office** bar in Santa Monica, CA I remember a dog groomer’s in Columbus, OH called **The Barking Lot**. I always thought I’d like to add my own strip club to our collection around the local army base and call it **The Fox Hole**. In fact, it’s fun to think of strip club names. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/64 "2010-10-09T03:47:54Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > My eternal favorite name will probably be a local gay bar called Screw Boy. Then there were the former side-by-side bars Pussy Galore and Pussy Alive. As I’ve related before, I still have memories of a friend and I walking through the Patpong red-light area, and Pussy Galore was packed while Pussy Alive was empty. The girls in Pussy Alive tried to entice us in, and my friend said: “Sorry, but the Pussy looks more Galore in there than it does Alive in here.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/65 "2010-10-09T03:49:57Z")
> [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](#): > > There’s another (or used to be) **The Office** bar in Santa Monica, CA We’ve got a couple of those. There’s The Office, and there’s The Other Office. he joke is you can truthfully tell your wife on the phone: “I’m at The Office, honey.” ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/66 "2010-10-09T07:15:02Z")
**John’s Steel Erections**. Their moto is, “We get it up.” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/67 "2010-10-09T07:24:49Z")
There’s allegedly a sandwich shop in Scotland called: **Sarnie Schwarzenegger** Slogan: “You’ll be back” ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/68 "2010-10-09T11:17:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > **Fat Girl Buffet-** not as good as some of these but I liked the honesty and bluntness; it’s a little hole in the wall restaurant on Highway 82 in Alabama. nitpick: It’s “Fat Girls BBQ and Cafe.” A friend and I made the hour-long trek based on the name alone, and it does indeed have excellent BBQ. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/69 "2010-10-09T16:42:20Z")
I prefer the unintentionally funny names and the deadpan ambiguities to the elaborate puns. A local tool business whose sign (small and crudely painted) I enjoy seeing: ALL DIE, INC. (6009 Manchester Ave. in St Louis.) ---
**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:** [October 9, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/70 "2010-10-09T17:15:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **The Great Alaskan Bush Company** - a strip joint in Anchorage > > [Mr. Whitekeys Fly-By-Nightclub](http://www.flybynightclub.com/) - a joint in Spenard (now sadly closed.) The Bush Company ought to be called “Gynecology Lessons”: there’s very little actual “bush” to be seen. 😃 There used to be a place down on east 5th Ave during the oil boom called _Twin Peaks Bra Shop_. I believe it was a front for call girls. My current favorite here in Portland is the Chinese restaurant _[Hung Far Low](http://www.reerecthungfarlow.com/)_, which has apparently been an institution here since the 1920s. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/71 "2011-01-20T15:05:20Z")
A new one has been brought to my attention. This is doubly good since it’s Thailand. Down South in Phuket is a serviced apartment complex called … Sleep with Me. Mentioned in the last paragraph of [this story](http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/217260/bay-cliff-sets-up-in-bangkok). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/72 "2011-01-20T19:10:49Z")
One of the best steakhouses in Northern Virginia is called **Ray’s the Steaks**. Yes, the owner’s name is Ray. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/73 "2011-01-20T20:23:30Z")
[Master Bait & Tackle](http://www.masterbaitonline.com/) (i also love their website name, [www.masterbaitonline.com](http://www.masterbaitonline.com). Minneapolis liquor stores [G-Will Liquors](http://www.g-will.com/). [BIG ASS FANS](http://www.bigassfans.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/74 "2011-01-20T20:42:25Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > A new restaurant is opening this weekend near me: Thai Foon. > > We also have Pho King. People who don’t know the pronunciation of pho don’t get why it’s funny. A good friend of mine is a partner in a Vietmanese restaurant named Pho Sure. My favorite Chinese restaurant was called Foo King Chinese ( or so I thought for years) then they fixed the sign and it turned out they were really called Food King Chinese. There used to be a very upscale Chinese restaurant in NYC in the '80’s called Dewey Wong. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/75 "2011-01-20T21:27:17Z")
I always liked Atlanta’s late **Boston Sea Party** eatery. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/76 "2011-01-20T22:26:55Z")
In Raleigh, NC during the 70’s (at least) there were two businesses I just loved: - Fat Daddy’s Record Shop & Rib Crib - RB Supreme Broasted Chicken and Concrete Contractor RB’s had an account with the bank I worked for. That was really the name of the business as registered with the state and city. And yes, they were a concrete contractor AND they sold this weird (but good) chicken that was “broasted” in some kind of pressure cooker thingy. I’d go down there and get Mae to make me up some of that tasty chicken while I watched the guys fill the concrete trucks. Swear to god. Their deposits always had concrete dust and chicken grease on the money. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/77 "2011-01-20T22:53:16Z")
Many of them around, but I’ve always gotten a chuckle out of the **King Of Clubs**. Needless to say, the ones I’ve seen are [anything but](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sunnyvale,+ca+king+of+clubs&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=37.406463,-122.064776&cid=3419703400434846667&cbp=13,130.0,0,0,0&cbll=37.406571,-122.064938&hl=en&gl=us&ved=0CEIQ2wU&sa=X&ei=lbw4TZydGpm6tQOYruDKBA). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/78 "2011-01-20T23:01:15Z")
There’s a place on Front St in Toronto called **C’est What?** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/79 "2011-01-21T03:15:17Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > [BIG ASS FANS](http://www.bigassfans.com/) There’s a popular Thai band called [Big Ass](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ass). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165/80 "2011-01-21T03:25:09Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > [BIG ASS FANS](http://www.bigassfans.com/) I have no idea why, but for some reason I get their catalog at work. I’ve come to be able to recognize their fans (or at least the style). I like noticing them and pointing it out to a friend Me: Hey, that’s a big ass fan (purposely setting the joke up) Friend: Umm, yeah, I guess it’s pretty big. (the line I was hoping for) Me: No, I mean it’s the, nevermind, not that funny anymore. (sigh, don’t know why I keep doing it) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-names-of-small-businesses/556165.md?page=5)