For years on Twitter, I compiled a list of “free” store names. It started as a pun here or there, and soon it snowballed into just shy of 90 names that would make up one amazing strip mall. Now, here they are for your enjoyment.
Appetizer Restaurant: Hors D’oeuvres of Service
Bag Shop: Totes Toes
Bait Shop: Keep It Reel
Bakery: Gluten Tag
Bakery: Mixed Baguette
Bakery: Seven Seas of Rye
Bakery: Yeast Mode
Beverage Shop: Bevy of Bevvies
Beverage Shop: Take Me to Your Liter
Bookstore: Too Many Books
Breakfast Place: Creped Crusader
Breakfast Place: Quiche to the Castle
Breakfast Place: Scope Crepe
Brewery/Theater: Six Saisons and a Movie
Butcher: Meatup
Carpet Store: Carpet Diem
Cheese Shop: A Whey with Curds
Cheese Shop: Gouda News
Cheese Shop: Out of the Whey
Cookie Shop: cookies.txt
Dairy: Milkwaukee
Dentist: Smiles Davis
Dentist: Source of Tooth
Dessert Shoppe: FLAN Party
Dry Cleaner: Oh, The Ironing!
Dry Cleaner: The Ironing of It All
Dumpling Restaurant in Manchester: How Soon is Bao
Dumpling Restaurant: Take a Bao
Editing Service: Come Correct
Falafel Restaurant: Pita Pan
Fast Fashion Store: Haute Takes
Fish Restaurant: Trouts ‘n’ Stouts
Fishing Shop: The Fly Has Been Cast
Front Door Shop: Wee, The Peephole
Fry Shop: Small Potatoes
Furniture Shop: Couchella
Garden Shop: For Peat’s Sake
Golf Shop: Divet to Video
HVAC Repair Service: Heaters Gonna Heat
Hair Salon: Funny or Dye
Hardware Store: Awl Star
Hardware Store: Awl or Nothing
Hardware Store: Awesome Saws
Health Food Store: You’ve Got Kale
Hipster Grocery Store: A Little Bit Larder, A Little Bit Wurst
Honey Shop: Beestro
Housewares Shop: Pitcher This
Hungarian Produce Shop: Honeydew Liszt
Ice Cream Shoppe: Legend Dairy
Ice Cream Shoppe: Do Me a Flavor
Ice Cream Shoppe: Every Day is Like Sundae
Jelly Shop: Totes Jelly
Klingon Bakery on the Promenade: Barge of the Bread
Klingon Cobbler: Kahless Shoe Source
Klingon Salon: Today is a Good Day to Dye
Knitting Shop: Moving the Needle
Mediterranean Restaurant: Hummus a Tune
Optometrist: See Sharp
Organization Store: Shelfies
Pasta Shop: Copy and Pasta
Pasta Shop: Rigatoni! Tony! Toné!
Pasta Shop: Pastabilities
Pet Shop: Fursquare
Pie Shop in Tempe: Teampie
Pillow and Jacket Shop: Let’s Feathers
Preserves Shoppe: This is My Jam
Pretzel Shoppe: Hot or Knot
Quilt Shop: Calling it Quilts
Restaurant Specializing in Buffalo: Bisontennial
Restaurant: Let’s Make a Dal
Restaurant: Poutine and the Blowfish
Sausage Shop: The Wurst of Times
Sci-Fi Themed Restaurant: Smorgasborg
Seafood Restaurant: Baggage Clam
Shoe Store: Heel Yeah!
Shoe Store: You’re Only as Good as Your Last
Soccer Store: Cleat Beat Manifesto
Spice Shop: Chives Had the Thyme of My Life
Spice Shop: Nouns and Herbs
Spice Shop: Out of Thyme
Spice Shop: Thyme is On My Side
Stationery Shop: Ink About It
Tailor: Turn the Pleat Around
Tank Top Shop: No Sleeve ‘Til Brooklyn
Tea Shoppe: Quantum Steep
Tea Shoppe: The Company You Steep
Window Shop: King of Pane