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Richmond restaurant launches contest to find new name

Posted at 10:11 AM, Sep 02, 2015
and last updated 2015-09-02 10:24:47-04

RICHMOND, Va. — To help overcome some vacillation and get the word out, a group of restaurateurs are looking to the masses to come up with a name for their new Church Hill establishment.

The owners of The Mill on MacArthur launched a naming contest this week for the restaurant they plan to open in January in the New East End Theater apartment building at 418 N. 25th St.

Rather than choose a name themselves, owners Amy Foxworthy, Josh Carlton and Chip Zimmerman plan to accept suggestions through a website designed by Foxworthy’s husband, Robert Huddleston.

“It’s hard to get three people to agree,” Foxworthy said of her and her partners.

The challenge of consensus building aside, the contest was also a way to spread the word about the forthcoming venture.

“We were trying to think of a way to announce our presence to the community and get them involved,” Foxworthy said. “We know how important the neighborhood is to the success to anything we do.”

The contest has so far received more than 200 suggestions, which have varied from the thoughtful, funny and informative. Foxworthy said she can’t tell where the submissions are coming from. All that is required to submit a suggestion is an email address. She said she has been happily surprised with the response.

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