Generate names for your street food business below.
Ashley S.
Branding & Marketing Specialist
How to name your street food business
Give our street food business name generator a try above. Below you’ll find our street food company name ideas, trending words, tips for naming your street food business, related words, adjectives, nouns, combined words and foreign words for street food. All of this to help you brainstorm the best name for your street food business.
- Golden Grillz
- Street Harvest
- The Bottle Booth
- Wild Street Tastes
- The Food Corner
- Express Eats
- The Walkup Wagon
- Food Quest
- Parked Pizza
- Fresh Fare To Go
- Homemade Hawker
- Street Snax
- Burger Boulevard
- Paved Sustenance
- Urban Eatery
- The Market Eatery
- The Taco Experience
- Street Vittles
- Noshers
- Quick Cuisine
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Four steps to naming your street food business
This four-step process will help you name your street food business. In this example, I’m creating a name for a street food business that conveys the healthy, organic and sweet taste of their product. Here’s each step I took in crafting these business names.
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#1) Brainstorm your name ideas
Start by brainstorming what words could fit into your business name. In my name ideas, I used words like “Burger”, “Eatery”, “Fresh” and “Pizza”, you can see that these names are clearly related to food. Your goal here is to create a list of words or names that come to mind when thinking about your business.
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Here are my name ideas after brainstorming:
#2) Shortlist your ideas
Once you’ve developed a list of possible names, do an analysis of your ideas. Remove any names that could be hard to remember, spell or speak aloud. Keep names that are brandable, sound great, are memorable and communicate your brand values, product or service to your target audience.
Here’s a quick checklist you can run your ideas through to help shorten your list of name:
- Is the name simple and easy to remember?
- Is the name easy to read and say aloud?
- Is the name different from competitors?
- Does the name convey a relevant meaning?
- Does the name avoid overused words or cliches?
My Shortlist:
Removed Ideas:
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#3) Get some feedback
You’ll now have a list of 3-6 great street food business names and you can start to ask potential customers or people working in the industry for feedback (your target audience). Avoid feedback from family and friends, are more likely to praise all your ideas and they aren’t your customer.
Be sure to ask questions like:
- What first comes to mind when you first hear the name?
- How would you spell it?
With you’re customer feedback you can now ask yourself is the name still relevant? and did it represent your business how you intended?
My customer feedback:
The name conveys fast service and flexibility.
The name is short, simple, easy to remember and brandable.
The name conveys that you will be getting quick service from this street joint.
This name conveys premium food that is also delicious
#4) Check It’s available
At this point, it’s good to have at least three great street food business names on your list, in case your any of your names are already taken. You can do a quick Business Name Search online to find out if you’re name is available within your country/state, also be sure to search if the name is also available for Trademark and Domain name Registration.
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Competitor Name Analysis
To help you brainstorm potential business names, let’s take a look at three successful street food businesses and break down why and how they’ve chosen to name their business and why it works for them.
Anna Mae’s Smokehouse achieves a personal connection with customers by using the founder’s name in the business name. This kind of naming approach is very effective when it comes to winning customer loyalty. The name is also very professional, brandable and clearly states what the business is about.
Eat My Pies is simply an attention-grabbing name. Any customer is bound to be hooked by this name and definitely try out their pies. This kind of casual naming approach makes the business come across as being friendly and social with customers and, therefore, customers will more likely prefer it over the more ‘formal’ ones.
Crêperie Nicolas also builds a personal relationship with customers by including the founder’s name in the business name. This kind of naming approach is very effective when it comes to winning customer trust. The name also suggests that the business deals in Crêpes which makes it easier for customers to remember it for that particular product.
5 Tips for naming your street food business
The ideal business name should be simple, memorable and convey a meaning all at the same time. Here are my 5 tips to keep in mind when developing your business names.
1. Do a Competitor Analysis
Doing a competitor analysis as your first step will save you a lot of time in the future, knowing what names to avoid and understanding why and how your competitors business name words for them will help you in forming your own business names. When analyzing competitors think about:
- What business or product values are they conveying in their business name? How does that work for them?
- Is there a trend in how these businesses are naming themselves? It’s best to avoid sounding like “just another one of those businesses”.
- Who does it best? Why does it work and how can I produce a better name?
2. Focus on Naming your Business not Describing it.
A typical pitfall most businesses run into is describing their business name too literally, using overused terms. A more effective business name should convey to customers your businesses and product values at a deeper level. Try name your business in a way that has a story behind it.
Let’s take for example a street food business named “Mother’s Street Kitchen “.
The name literally means that the business belongs to someone’s mother. On a deeper level though, this name is used to mean that the business welcomes all customers and is ready to service everyone equally just like a mother would do for her children.
3. How to make a more memorable name
Creating a memorable business name is the first step in getting into a customers mind and is also a task that’s easier said than done. Your business name should aim to stop a customer in their tracks and give an extra thought on your product among your wave of competitors. Some tips to create a memorable name would be:
- Use rhythmic pronunciation or alliteration (Food Friends, Street Steak)
- Try using a word that wouldn’t be relevant when out of context (Delico Street Food – Delico as in Delicious)
- Keep it short and simple.
4. Try purchasing a Brandable business name
Brandable business names are names that are non-sensical but read and are pronounced well. They often use letter patterns of Vowel/Consonant/Vowel as these word structures are typically short, catchy and easy to say and remember. For example, some brandable street food business names could be:
- Nuvane Street Food
- Alomos Food Joint
- Nurilo Urban Food
You can find a full list of Brandable business names at Domainify.com
5. Avoid combining words just to create a unique name.
Another mistake business owners typically make is creating bad word combinations when they find out that their business name idea is already taken. For example, John names his business Bumble Food and finds out it’s already taken. Because he’s already decided this is what he’ll name his business he tries to opt for similar sounding names like BumbillFood, Bumbleofody or BummbleFood.
You can see how these ideas are a step backward as they are not catchy, easily pronounceable or memorable. In these situations, we suggest starting from scratch and trying the tips we mentioned previously.
Business Name Ideas
Here’s the ultimate list of related words you could use in your business name. Below is a list of trending, descriptive and action words that are often related to.
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Words street food often describes
(“street food ______”)
You can use these words to create street food business names like ‘The Street Food Stall’ and ‘The Street Food Eatery’.
How Street Food is often described
(“______ street food”)
Example street food company names using these related descriptive words ‘The Deep-Fried Street Food Company’ and ‘Savory Street Food Co.’.
Street Food Adjectives
You can use an adjective in your business name to create a business name like ‘Smoked Street Food‘ or ‘The Italian Street Food Company‘.
Street Food Verbs
You can use a verb in your street food business name to create business names like ‘Street Food Scoops‘ or ‘Walk Up Street Food Co.‘.
Combine Words
We’ve taken words from above and from our generator results and combined the words to create new street food company names.
Street Food in Foreign Languages
Consider using foreign words in your business name to give the impression of an international or exotic brand.
Latin: noun (platea cibum).
French: noun (l’alimentation de rue).
Italian: noun (cibo di strada).
Spanish: noun (comida de la calle).
