Refuel.
I cannot help the fact that I have an innate distaste for the Kum & Go gas station chains. It is the name. Ew. No, it does not work for me. They were strewn all over Nebraska and I hated them then, but now we have not one, but two of them in Brighton, flanking the east and west sides of the city. Every time I go anywhere, there they are: two Kum & Go stores. I pass them leaving the house, I pass them coming home.
Refresh.
But they also have the best gas deals near my house and if I run out of my morning blend, they are the closest place to get a really good cup of coffee fast – a really good, BIG cup of coffee.
Uh-huh. The ones in Brighton look exactly just like this…only with a city and neighborhoods around them. Why can’t they just have a better name? Like Refresh and Refuel?
Pumpkin Spice.
This morning Dave “surprised” me with the Kum & Go version of a Pumpkin Spice Latte, my drink of cold-weather choice from Starbucks every year over which I mourn longingly when it is gone for the season. Ok, thank-you, honey…yeah right. But guess what? It is pretty stinking delicious. I had my own whipped cream and for half the price and double the volume? Oh my. I do feel somewhat like a cheater, but Starbucks-darling, watch out for the Kum & Go. Now when they add nice comfy chairs and wi-fi….
NOTE TO SELF: Check out the Kum & Go career possibilities and see if I can be vice-president of re-naming the chain. How about Come Here & then Leave ?
We too have discussed the name and think it is disgusting. But I will try the coffee.
I think it was probably named by the same thinktank that gave us Hooters and In-n-Out burgers.
Ah Bryan, such a dry sense of humor! :) I did go to our old friend, Google and put in “silly restaurant names” and this is what I came up with, I kid you not. And it had the pics of the signs out front so they weren’t Photoshopped in. (some I could not list in this forum :) “Pizza Orgasmica” “L’Idiot” “Oops” “Uncle Tom’s BBQ” “Pretty Good Grocery” “The Golden Shower Restaurant” “Crabby Dick’s” but I think most of the Asian names take the cake: (again, I kid you not) “Poo Ping” “Pee and Poo” “Le Sake”and the winner of them all (an Asian) “Fu King”
At work we used to sell to a bar called the Hung Cowboy.