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To tell my friend her business name is rubbish?

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NChappy · 22/07/2017 12:21

She wants to call it Pasta Best. To me it sounds like her products are passed their best. Should I tell her before it is too late and she has started trading?

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MargotLovedTom1 · 22/07/2017 12:22

I quite like it .

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toosexyforyahshirt · 22/07/2017 12:23

Do you think your opinion is so important that she will change it because you say so?

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Mammylamb · 22/07/2017 12:23

Tell her now!! Normally I'd say wind your neck in; but this could ruin her livelihood

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NotMyMonkees · 22/07/2017 12:23

Haha wish approved foods had called themselves that!

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MumBod · 22/07/2017 12:24

Yeah, that's a crap connotation.

Maybe just gently tell her that's what it suggests to you?

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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 22/07/2017 12:24

It's clever but misguided

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CycleHire · 22/07/2017 12:25

Yes tell her: "ooh, just a thought - do you think it might sound like 'past their best'?''

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squoosh · 22/07/2017 12:25

Yeah it's a crap name. Tell her.

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MumBod · 22/07/2017 12:26

Pasta Prego

Unsurpastable

Pasta Perfect

Pasta Piace

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GriefLeavesItsMark · 22/07/2017 12:27

Oh dear, it is a bit like calling your hairdressing business Curl Up and Dye.

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MumBod · 22/07/2017 12:27

Piace Pasta might be better, though.

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Worried567 · 22/07/2017 12:27

It's a terrible name! If you don't want to say it outright, what about suggesting them she run her ideas for the business (inc the name) past a focus group. This can be an informal one e.g. a coffee morning with friends and family.

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NChappy · 22/07/2017 12:28

toosexy Hi, yes, that's definitely what I think It's not that I want to at least point it out as nobody else seems to have done.

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SpuriouserAndSpuriouser · 22/07/2017 12:28

Grief

Yeah that is a bad name, "past her best" is what immediately popped into my mind when I read it. Not a great connotation.

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Witchend · 22/07/2017 12:32

If I saw that I would assume it was a seconds or (food wise) past sell by date but still edible.

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Redpandaeyes · 22/07/2017 12:41

I often see a van with a 'Caterfood' sign on it around my town - always makes me think of cat food. YANBU

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Punkatheart · 22/07/2017 12:49

I freelance for a branding agency and spend time brainstorming names - this is a no, no and another no. Caterfood makes me giggle too. So many other ways to use the word 'pasta'.

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betteroffwithouthim · 22/07/2017 12:51

Please tell her, that's what friends are for.

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Oldraver · 22/07/2017 12:53

Yep If I saw a sign saying this I would think it old stock food

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SapphireStrange · 22/07/2017 12:58

Please tell her! She isn't doing her business any favours.

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Mummyoflittledragon · 22/07/2017 13:00

Sounds like past her best. Is it a place for very elderly grannies to get a blue rinse while they eat? I wouldn't count on repeat business there. Dd and I went for lunch on Thursday in a place, which could legitimately have been called Past its best. Sadly I couldn't see inside because the sun was shining on the shop and I felt too embarrassed to leave once inside.

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MyheartbelongstoG · 22/07/2017 13:01

I seen a funeral directors called wake and pain once!

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SamoyedSam · 22/07/2017 13:04

A really irritating, batshit-crazy woman I used to vaguely know A former acquaintance called her now-defunct online jewellery business "Cherished Hunny"...meant like a synonym for "darling"...complete with that special NetHuns spelling. Christ On A Stick, I hated that name!

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