‘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/

Daring Fireball
@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)
@daringfireball
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)
@daringfireball @gruber
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)
@daringfireball @gruber
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