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Reader: Restaurant names are starting to sound like boutique clothing shops

Denver is about to see a run of new restaurants with similar-sounding names. Work & Class opens next week. Guard and Grace is coming in February. Opening a month or so later is Salt & Grinder -- which will also go by its initials, S&G. That prompted a slight name...
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Denver is about to see a run of new restaurants with similar-sounding names. Work & Class opens next week. Guard and Grace is coming in February. Opening a month or so later is Salt & Grinder — which will also go by its initials, S&G. That prompted a slight name change for Stoic & Genuine, the fishhouse that Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch are putting in Union Station; construction continues, but plans to use S&G in the signage have been Our post rounding up these name games led to a tasty conversation on searchabiity, typography and more.

See also: What’s in a name? Plenty of ampersands these days

For example, this from bondadprevalece:

I feel like restaurant names are starting to sound more and more like boutique clothing shops.

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