To tell my friend her business name is rubbish?

[NChappy]

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?

[BeachyKeen]

Now I'm worried, because I'm looking to launch my business soon, and it's name is a pun

[ClashCityRocker]

mumbod we must live in the same place!

It used to be called Dinky Donuts. A youngish chap bought the business, he used to drink in my pub and apparently thought it would be hilarious to change the name to kinky donuts..... This is going back a good decade and think it's changed hands since but the name's stuck.

[Ktown]

There is a clothes shop near here called chi chi - I do wonder if anyone has told them the various meanings.

[MrsOverTheRoad]

Beachy you just need to be careful...it will brand your business as lower end generally. What is your business?

[BabsGanoush]

Pasta Bowl?

[divadee]

Pasta la Vista is the best name for a pasta place.

[Notknownatthisaddress]

Pasta la vista is fucking brilliant!

[MikeUniformMike]

Why thank you. .

[GlitterGlue]

You must tell her. That's dreadful.

[Admirablenelson]

Curl up and Dry exists too, or used to.

[Agerbilatemycardigan]

There's a shoe shop in London called R. Soles (think about it..)

[Agerbilatemycardigan]

Pasta joke anyone?

[squoosh]

There are many salons called Curl Up & Dye.

Woeful choice of name though.

[ShmooBooMoo]

Put on your best Craig Revel Horwood voice and say, 'It's a pasta diaster, darling!'

I have to agree with the general consensus here - it sounds offputting, like the pasta's been sitting there too long and gone mange-y. Just tell her she's your friend, you think the name sounds a bit off-putting so you put the feelers out here to see if it was just you , or others too, because you don't want her to regret naming her business something that might make people walk past rather than come in. Show her this thread.

[SueGeneris]

Pasta Marmalade

Auntie Pasta

I'd love to know what she ends up calling it.

[JumpJockey]

I saw flyers once for a company who did fancy wedding invitations etc called Foil Your Occasions. I had visions of people receiving invitations with completely the wrong venue and date and the makers sniggering behind their hands...

[SueGeneris]

The Pasta Press

[5BlueHydrangea]

There is a cafe near me called "Swell Cafe" only it has loopy writing on the frontage that looks like "Smell Cafe" After a while they put block capital stickers on the window too saying SWELL CAFE. Must have had a few comments!

[ShmooBooMoo]

Adding to Mike's fantastic idea;

On her shop signage or business stuff, she could have the name and then in brackets a tag line in italics, like this:

Pasta La Vista (you'll be back!)



It continues the pun but also makes the place or business sound so good that it's irresistible!

[ShmooBooMoo]

I''ll try that again:

you'll be back!

Instead of brackets, she could put an asterisk before it.

[Motoko]

That link. "my lady cave is now open"

I mentioned the Pasta Best name to my husband, and he immediately said "Past its best".

You have to mention it to her OP!

[leghoul]

Curl up and dye is in SE London somewhere

Pasta Best is a terrible name. Impastable not to say something

[londonrach]

Could she reverse the words...best pasta

[JessieMcJessie]

What is the business? I'm struggling to think of a gap in the market for a pasta-based business. That's before you even get to the fact that the name is rubbish.

[LeannePerrins]

Curl up and Dry is in New Cross.