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There's More To The Game Than The Name

http://sofakingjuicyburger.com/

It’s gotten quite popular in the last few years to select dirty names for start-up businesses. There’s Dirty Dick’s Crab House, Fat Bastard Burrito, but none tops the new burger joint in Chattanooga.

Its name is Sofa - King - Juicy - Burger. If you say the name real fast, it only takes a couple times to figure out the intent of the owner. Despite, that is, the fact that he says there’s a large sofa in the joint.

Obviously, the name is controversial. And, of course, that’s really the intent. Every newspaper and TV station in town has made a big story out of it. It’s only months old and there are almost thirty thousand results listed on Google.

None of this would have happened with an ordinary name. Personally, I find it silly. But I’m not a heavy-hamburger-user, and in today’s world his tasteless name has given him a jump start that nothing else would.

There are, of course, problems.

The burgers had better really be juicy. Because people are sampling the restaurant out of curiosity almost immediately. The name alone won’t bring them back a second time. And I have been reminded recently that a bad, or tasteless, advertising campaign can be forgotten over time.

But your name is your name. And what a fourteen-year-old thinks is cute today is fleeting.

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