Transcript: What's in a Restaurant Name?

LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
08-27-2006
What's in a Restaurant Name?

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00-13:00 PM

LIANE HANSEN, host:

What's in a name? Well, the restaurant name with a distinctive name can mean the difference between the owner eating pate or chopped liver. WEEKEND EDITION food essayist Bonny Wolf finds there are many ways to play the name game.

BONNY WOLF reporting:

Finger Licking Bucketeria? As you know doubt guessed: a Nigerian restaurant in Houston. It's a strange new world. In 1950's Minneapolis there were essentially four restaurants: Harry's, Freddie's, Charlie's and Murray's. They served steak. It was the same era where in more sophisticated cities ...

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