Posted on 06/10/2010 10:01:57 AM PDT by rawhide
A pair of San Francisco Bay Area restaurateurs were all set to open their macaroni and cheese specialty restaurant with the name Little Mac when a phone conversation with legal counsel for McDonald’s derailed their plans. It seems the burger giant doesn’t take kindly to restaurants that use “Mac” or “Mc” in their names, citing brand infringement.
Rather than fight, the mac and cheese entrepreneurs, Erin Wade and Alison Arevalo, have put a call out for help in finding a new name.
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How about El Maco a Cheeso (Spanish)
:)
McDowell’s? I know that place!
“Cleo McDowell: Look... me and the McDonald’s people got this little misunderstanding. See, they’re McDonald’s... I’m McDowell’s. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.”
Coming to America 1988
The word MACARONI is a generic product name, like GASOLINE or OIL, and cannot be copyrighted.
I submitted “MACARONI PLUS”.
I’m not a lawyer, but I think that while you couldn’t copyright the “WORD” you could copyright the PHRASE.
Who knows? Also, this little company couldn’t in a million years afford this much publicity. They’ve already won.
tallarines y queso (noodles and cheese) :-)
Macaroni and cheese too obvious?
That’s from “Coming To America” right? John Amos? Loved that scene.
They could add “Proudly not serving McDonald’s crap since 2010.”
How about McAroni’s
“We’re not McDonald’s. We serve food here.”
How about “Kroc’s Kitchen”?
Ever eat BK Shots? Horrible. A pathetic Burger King attempt to copy White Castle (or Krystal) burgers.
How about “Donald’s Mac (and cheese)”?
;)
Cheese-A-Ronie
There are 2 things in this life that I am always searching for ... the perfect cup of coffee and perfect mac-n-cheese (homemade of course). That picture looks so good ... THAT might be it ... if someone has the recipe.
Change it to “Little Mack.” There’s a street in Detroit named that.
If this is near Haight Ashbury, how about calling it “Smack and Cheese”?
BK Shots are so-so, IMO.
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