Restaurant Name Generator

How to Use Our Restaurant Name Generator

Welcome to NameBounce's restaurant name generator! If you're searching for catchy restaurant names, you're in the right spot.

Around the world, chain restaurants are struggling, but consumer spending on dining out is increasing. This statistic means that more of their money is going to independent restaurants and small chains. It’s a great time to get started with your new restaurant or café!

Of course, the best way to stand out is to create unique dishes and provide a fantastic guest experience. But there are more avenues to make your restaurant stand out. One of those is to find a creative, catchy, and memorable restaurant name.

As a future restaurant owner, finding a catchy restaurant name can seem like an obsession. It's more challenging with a slow, manual name brainstorming process. Fortunately, our restaurant name generator makes naming easy. With one keyword, you can generate hundreds of restaurant name ideas in a few seconds.

On top of that, we show restaurant names that have a matching domain name available. When you find a catchy name with personality, you can reserve the domain name instantly!

Ready to get started? Start by entering one or two keywords above, and select your preferred domain extension. We'll show you hundreds of creative names for your restaurant, café, or food truck!

How to Choose a Great Restaurant, Café, or Food Truck Name – 5 Essential Tips

In this section, we outlined five must-follow restaurant, café, and food truck naming tips.

For more detail, check out our How to Name Your Business blog post. The blog post has essential tips that every new business should follow (including a restaurant). The guide is over 2,000 words and goes along perfectly with these restaurant-specific naming tips!

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Tip #1: Help Them Understand Your Cuisine and Concept

National restaurant chains can use a name that doesn’t hint at their food, like McDonald’s or Ruth’s Chris. You know that McDonald’s is a fast-food restaurant, and Ruth’s Chris is a steakhouse. But that's because these brands have made massive investments in marketing.

You don't have the advertising budget that McDonald’s does. So it's better to choose a name that tells potential diners about what your restaurant has to offer.

One great way to communicate your cuisine and concept is via visual imagery. NameBounce makes it easy to find visual names. The fastest way to find them is to enter a single word like café, restaurant, grill, or kitchen.

You can include a descriptive word before any of those keywords. For example, instead of searching "restaurant," you could search "Italian restaurant."

I ran a few example searches with the keywords above to find names for a casual, beach-themed café. The generator came up with several creative options. Some of my favorites include Shoal Café, Seaway Café, and Treasure Grill (pirate theme, anyone?). And those names had matching .com domains.

Tip #2: Consider Your Colors and Branding

Picking brand colors that go along with your name is crucial. Fast food brands have notoriously used red, orange, and yellow colors to influence customers for years.

If you combine an inviting color scheme with your brand name, you can create an influential visual association for any prospective customer. In the casual, beach-themed café example above, you can see how colors like these add to the visual brand imagery.

It’s helpful to consider what your restaurant or café would look like on the inside. You can visualize your name, colors, interior decor, and marketing materials all at once. By looking at naming and branding as part of the same process, you’ll be more likely to create a holistic visual brand.

Tip #3: Consider Using Your Location In Your Name, But Don’t Restrict Yourself

There’s a definite balance between communicating your restaurant’s location in your name and being restrictive.

Imagine that you open a café called “Main Street Café.” If you lease space on Main Street in your city, that could work well. Customers will have you top-of-mind driving down Main Street looking for food.

But what happens if you expand to a different city, and there are no vacancies on Main Street? Or, if you don’t renew your lease and have to move to a different street? In both of those scenarios, you’ll likely have to rebrand.

Depending on your business plan, using your location in your restaurant or café name can be beneficial. But if you're hoping to grow into a chain, make sure that your name isn't restrictive.

Tip #4: Be Original

Your restaurant will compete against restaurants with thousands of OpenTable reviews. To stand out, it’s essential to pick a name that is original compared to your competitors. Choosing a unique name will help your restaurant stand out on review sites, even if you have fewer reviews.

You will want to steer clear of names that are similar to famous restaurant brands. Your customers could see you as a knock-off of the famous brand, and you’d likely run into trademark issues.

One excellent test to see if your name is original is by checking domain availability. Try searching for the most popular domain extensions. Some of these include .com, .net, and your country’s domain (like .co.uk or .in).

To be 100% safe, you should consider a comprehensive trademark search. There’s more detail on trademarks in Tip #8 of our How to Name Your Business post.

Tip #5: Try Different Naming Techniques

First impressions matter. A creative name with personality will help your restaurant stand out.

To find a catchy name, you can try a variety of different naming techniques. And you don't need our restaurant name generator for all of them!

To learn about 12 naming techniques used by top naming agencies, click here!