Daring Fireball3d ago
‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/25/chain-restaurants-whose-names-contain-unusual-structures
‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’

Link to: https://onefoottsunami.com/2026/03/18/a-list-of-chain-restaurants-whose-names-contain-unusual-structures/

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Show threadNathan3d ago
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@gruber Speaking of restaurant names that people use the wrong name for, in the Dayton, Ohio, area, there’s a pizza business with nine locations. It’s been around for over 60 years and often wins awards for best pizza in the area. The actual name is Marion’s Piazza. Piazza is the Italian word for a public square. (2/4)
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Show threadNathan3d ago
But since it’s a pizza place, and piazza is only one letter off, everyone, and I mean everyone, calls it Marion’s Pizza. If you came here and called it Marion’s Piazza, no one would have any idea what you’re talking about. And surely whoever started the business should have realized how confusing pizza/piazza is and avoided that name, right? (3/4)
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Show threadNathan3d ago
Or after a few years maybe they should have changed it to actually match what people call it? It’s just a very strange bit of Dayton trivia. (4/4)
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Show threadBryan Powell2d ago
@nwd I know this place, it migrated to the north Cincinnati suburbs and I do a double take each time I see it
Show threadJohn Gruber2d ago
@nwd My type of story. I love it. Thanks!
Show threadKev Rodgers2d ago
@gruber @nwd “Oh boy! I’m gonna have a piazza, I’m gonna have a piazza!” https://youtu.be/jEaEFLQa3Ck?si=4zira3c8lpgEMGrJ&t=6
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Show threadPaul McGrane2d ago
@nwd @daringfireball @gruber Isn't Dayton also where the inscrutably named Fifth Third bank is from? (I went to a wedding there once … well the city not the bank)
Show threadNathan2d ago
@pmcg @daringfireball @gruber Fifth Third started in Cincinnati, but yeah it has a big presence in the Dayton area, too. Their slogan is that they do things “a fifth third better” which is nonsensical. They’d be better off having no slogan than something that sounds like word salad.
Show threadPaul McGrane2d ago
@nwd @daringfireball @gruber I guess it has something to do with the street? But they're almost to 6/6 which is one