Chapter 2 - The Name

Gohan had a point - restaurants had to have names. Chi Chi, Goku and Gohan spent all of the next day trying to think of a name. They had written down a lot already, and Bulma had also given them some ideas, but Chi Chi had rejected all of them.

"How about Seafood, Eat Food?" suggested Gohan.

"Nah, it's too long, and besides, the name is misleading. We have other dishes besides seafood as well. But then again, it might work."

"Food Palace?"

"No."

"Chi Chi's Restaurant?"

"Not catchy enough."

"Le Beau Restaurant?"

"I don't understand french."

"Ein gut... uh, how do you say 'restaurant' in german?"

"You're asking me?"

"Uh huh."

"Wouldn't have a clue."

"The No Name Restaurant?"

"I want a name for my restaurant... Oh, I get now. But no. What do other people call their restaurants?"

"Let's see... there's McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut..."

"Not like that! How did they come up with those names?"

"By thinking of them."

"Well then think!"

"I'm trying!"

"THEN THINK HARDER!"

Gohan nodded and started rattling off some more ideas.

"Snake Way Restaurant?"

"People will get freaked out by snakes!"

"Food Lovers' Paradise?"

"Maybe..."

"Saiyan Buffet?"

"I don't include alien words."

"Emperor Kakarot's?"

"No way! Goku's not going to have his name on my restaurant!" Gohan ran out of ideas. Now it was Goku's turn to think.

"Eternal Food?" Goku was starting to get hungry.

"How about something without food?"

"Planet Vegeta?"

"PLANET VEGETA? DEFINITELY NOT! But then again, I just thought of one. It came to me just then: Einstein's Banquet."

Gohan and Goku looked at Chi Chi in surprise and together they said, "Huh? Einstein's Banquet? You're kidding!" Gohan really didn't want his friends to think that his mum was nuts, so he countered, "Mum, you just said that four syllables was too long, so what's up?"

"Uh… well I… ever since you were a little kid I've always wanted to call you Einstein, and because you didn't like the name I tried to call everything else Einstein, just so that people would think that you came from a smart family." Gohan looked at Chi Chi and said, "that's nice mum, but I still don't think that Einstein's Banquet is a good name."

One hour passed, and then two. It was time for lunch, and still no one had thought of a good name. Everyone was quiet except for Goten, who was really excited. "A restaurant, a restaurant, we're gonna get a restaurant!" He started singing a song about how they would become richer than Trunks.

(OK, this is from Old McDonald had a farm, so yeah, that's what the 'ee-i-ee-i-o' is about...)
"My mum Chi Chi had a restaurant, ee-i-ee-i-o!
And in that restaurant there was a lot of food, ee-i-ee-i-o!
With a lot of food here, a lot of food there,
here's some food, there's some food,
everywhere there's food, food!
My mum Chi Chi had a restaurant, ee-i-ee-i-o!"

Gohan's eyes lit up, and with a full mouth he screamed, "I got it!" Chi Chi didn't get it and absent mindedly said, "Goku, don't talk with your mouth full." A few seconds later she realised it was Gohan who had spoken.

"Gohan, I'm ashamed of you. You know better than to… did you just think of a name for my restaurant?" Gohan nodded, and Chi Chi stood up, leaned across the table and stared straight into his face. Gohan felt the tiniest bit intimidated, but managed to say, "Well, I was thinking that Planet Plant might be a good name. It's short and it doesn't have the word food in it." Gohan then shut his eyes, just in case Chi Chi didn't like it and started screaming. Nothing happened, so he half opened one eye and saw Chi Chi smiling with her mouth wide open. He was not quite sure what to do, so he relaxed, thinking that his mother was fine.

"Son, YOU ARE A GENIUS! I REALLY THINK YOU COULD GET A PHD! It's perfect! No one will ever think that we copied anyone else!" she screamed, and Gohan became temporarily deaf.

"Oh shit, how did I know this was going to happen?" he muttered under his breath. Suddenly he realised what he had said, and whom he had said it in front of. Chi Chi's face was now looking very angry and she thundered, "GOHAN, WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? I HOPE IT WASN'T WHAT I THOUGHT I HEARD!" Gohan was still deaf, but he could tell what she was screaming about. He shook his hard as hard as he could, hoping that she hadn't heard him clearly.

"Well I'll let you off with that since you thought of a name for my restaurant, but you do know better than to swear in front of your family, right? Especially Goten. I don't want you setting a bad example in front of your younger brother. Understood?"

"I guess…"

"WHAT?!"

"I mean of course! I'll never do it again. Promise!" Gohan thought he was very lucky to have been let off with only a short speech from Chi Chi. I remember that time Goten had overheard Vegeta swearing and then asked mum what shit meant and she beat him up and screamed at him for well over an hour. Poor Goten.

"That's more like it. Now let's get started on Planet Plant!"