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?

I think the fact that the business doesn't even have anything to do with pasta makes it even worse.

Do what now?

If it IS about using 'wasted' food that would otherwise be thrown away, then I think that's OK.

My favourite hairdresser name (the place has sadly closed down now) was It Will Grow Back.

Hi, her business will supply staff to various other businesses and it's not even food based establishments either. Thanks for all of your replies, I think I do need to have a chat with her.

Hi, her business will supply staff to various other businesses and it's not even food based establishments either

She sounds like a loon (although, I'm sure, a very nice one).

Best of luck, OP! 👍

How bizarre! A business should do what it says on the tin., vice versa.

Please tell me that she is at least supplying age 55+ staff to try and make the pun work?

MrsOverTheHill
That cracked me up.
Poor old Trace, what's she like.

I don't understand why anyone would have a play on words as a business name - off the top of my head I can't think of any big name brand that does it but lots of people starting up new small businesses seem to think its a great idea.

Chippy called 'a salt and battered' near where I used to live in Sheffield

Hi Kpo58. No, absolutely not, she's looking to employ students etc.

WTF? Can you talk us through why she has chosen the name OP?

I can't stop thinking about this! I even just googled to find out if there are other meanings of pasta that I don't know about.

Whyyyyyyyyy?

Is it a play in words kind of like "pass the best" if she is looking to supply businesses with staff from elsewhere?

Either way I'm still fucking baffled but in stitches at this whole thread 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In response to PP upthread who mentioned Smell Cafe, I remember a good few years ago the Morrisons stores used to have light-up lettering.

The one near me had some of the lights not working so when it was lit up at night time it read "morons". Still makes me chuckle to this day

Zippy I knew exactly the thread you meant the second you mentioned The Lady Cave, it was a classic.

I'm doubly confused at to why someone would be naming a student recruitment business anything related to pasta, let alone something implying it's out of date. Am I missing something?

There is a driving school near me called Skid Marks. Absolutely bloody awful.

YANBU OP - tell her before it's too late!

This thread sums up why I love Mumsnet so much

The name sounds even worse after you've explained what her business is.

It sounds like she's hiring out people who are passed their best!

Keep sniggering at the TWAT cafe!

We saw a B and B in Scotland called Nessun Dorma, once.

Also on the Bethnal Green Road, a women's clothes shop called Limited Lady.

Oh, I get it. Pass The Best. Like, pass good people on.

It's shit.

What about People Providers? The People People?

Gandalf's Staff?

I love unsurpastable 🤣

Pasta Parcel!

If she's making such a big mistake over the name I'd have doubts over the rest of the business.

Pass The Best. Like, pass good people on.

Ah, OK.

God, it's laboured, isn't it? As well as giving me a mental image of a bag of browning salad leaves.

She needs to rethink.

She may as well call it Potato Dreams or Cul-De-Sac or something else nonsensical which doesn't sum up the premise of the business whatsoever