When restaurateur Tim Petrillo and his partners were trying to come up with a name for their new meatball restaurant, they tried one out on a focus group—with disastrous results.

“We tried Bolas, which means balls in Spanish, but it has the negative connotation,” Petrillo joked. “When we tested that in the Latin community, people were saying, are you crazy?”

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