Creative Business Names/Slogans

[Steve DeRosa]

With things getting a little heavy on the Open Mic forum lately, I thought I'd lighten the mood a bit with some clever business names/slogans that I've either seen over the years* (you can't make this stuff up) - or would like to see^:

Sole Brothers* - shoe repair (NYC)
Doggie Style* - pet grooming (LI, NY)
Knit-Wit* - sewing supplies (Brooklyn, NY - now defunct)
Many Happy Returns* - tax preparers (MD)
Wok-n-Roll* - Chinese restaurant (Brooklyn, NY)
Chili Willie's* - Mexican restaurant (NJ)
Beaver Liquors - package store (Upstate NY)
Legal Grounds* - a coffee shop catering to law school students (PA)
Free Fire Insurance* - posted outside a small-town Baptist church (PA)
Impatiens is a virtue* - observed at a plant nursery (PA)
Firin' Rain^ - lawn sprinkler installation/services
Pick a Winner^ - guitar shop

What's yours...?

[BTF]

Right on, Mr. D ! Things were getting a bit dicey over on the banjo thread!

We have a nudist colony nearby. It's ill-served by any vendor. I'm a pretty decent cook so I thought I'd open them a restaurant called "Naked Lunch"!

[architype]

I always wanted to open up a Jamacan/Italian eatery and call it "Rasta Pasta".

The Hair salon called "Curl Up and Dye"...I think there is one in every town by now.

We used to go to a seafood place that had the catch phrase: "If it smells like fish eat it!"
I bought the T-shirt.

We used to have a bar called "The Library" in Lexington, KY where I went to college. You could always tell your parents that you were at the library every night this week and not have to lie.

[Scholar]

Years ago, a buddy and I had a small company through which we custom built golf clubs by hand. We called the business "Fairway To Heaven."

Yowza.

[LouieAtienza]

The Fu King smoke shop in NJ has to take the cake!

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by BTF

...We have a nudist colony nearby. It's ill-served by any vendor. I'm a pretty decent cook so I thought I'd open them a restaurant called "Naked Lunch"!...

- as long as it's not followed by the carchphrase from a Wendy's commercial of 30 years ago, "Home of the Big Buns"...

- and while we're at it:

What's Your Beef? - steakhouse (NJ)

Originally Posted by architype

I always wanted to open up a Jamacan/Italian eatery and call it "Rasta Pasta"...

- or a Latino-Jamaican bakery specializing in take-away/fast foods (beef patties, coco bread, empanadas, etc.) called "Rasta la Vista"...

Cool, mon..

[Gasworker]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_%26_Howe

[catdaddy]

There used to be an auto salvage business in the ethnic Greek community of Tarpon Springs, FL called "Oedipus Wrecks" and a marina fishing supply shop called "Master Bait and Tackle" in Bonita Springs.

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by Gasworker

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_%26_Howe

"We are no longer affiliated with disability/accident-law specialists Conn, Bull, and Finagel, LLC" ,,,

Originally Posted by catdaddy

There used to be...a marina fishing supply shop called "Master Bait and Tackle" in Bonita Springs.

Originally Posted by architype

...We used to go to a seafood place that had the catch phrase: "If it smells like fish eat it!"...

I wonder if they're affiliated...

Keep 'em coming...

[KYDeadhead]

Not names but a couple slogans I've seen recently. Saw a paving company sign with the slogan " if you don't use us , it's your own asphalt" and a truck for a company that did both roofing and plumbing ( an odd combo I thought) whose slogan was " if water runs through it, we do it"

[Acousticado]

Originally Posted by Scholar

Years ago, a buddy and I had a small company through which we custom built golf clubs by hand. We called the business "Fairway To Heaven."

Yowza.

Ha...Fairway to Heaven...love it!

"Moneysworth & Best" - a shoe repair company.

[reflected]

[LouieAtienza]

Originally Posted by reflected

Winner so far! That`s great!

[KevWind]

As a kid got a kick out of this one in Portland Oregon

[dirkronk]

Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa

I thought I'd lighten the mood a bit with some clever business names/slogans that I've either seen over the years* (you can't make this stuff up)

Actually, I can. In fact, I've been doing it for a living for the past 40-some-odd years. Examples:

Whiz Kits (client Texana Industries, 1976 - urine specimen "catch kits" used by clinics)

Pick Up the Pace (client Pace Picante Sauce, 1977 - used as their slogan for nearly 25 years, until they were sold to Campbell Soup)

C.A.R.S. (created name for client Computerized Automobile Referral Service, 1981 - pre-PC era database service for used car dealers and private sellers: "When you want a car, call CARS," "Calling all CARS" and similar radio/print lines.)

Full House (name for specialty apartment leasing spin-off firm of CIM Realty. c.1985: brochure was a fold-out of a poker hand of 3 aces, 2 kings that read "Full House: It's the deal every apartment owner really wants.")

Big Dipper and Little Dipper (client Pace, c. 1991 - Names for 2 sizes of picante sauce cups for Pace Foodservice to provide to fast food franchises...never used: they went with a single size and the name "Salsa Shooter" instead)

Lots of other examples over the years, including plenty of plays on my own name. When I incorporated my ad concept and copywriting business in 1983, I registered the name Writer Ronk, Inc. Today, when I freelance, I still have that formal business name, but more frequently use a "dba"...RonkStar Concepts. Oh, and my wedding announcement from 1984: "On September 15, One Rite will make Two Ronks."



Dirk