A Wilmington restaurant now has a new, and slightly different name. The Brandywine Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue has been rebranded as Brandywine Brasserie. Robert Lhulier, the executive chef ...

They are hardly the first restaurants to try something different. Just as bands will throw the odd curveball – Butthole Surfers, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Mott the Hoople ...

Signage for an Applebee’s is displayed outside of the restaurant in Redwood City, California, on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...

It all started with the name. “I keep a journal of restaurant ideas and I jot down names all the time,” said Bacchus Management Group Executive Tim Stannard, who had 50 names in the hopper ...

That very first restaurant — T.J. Applebee’s Rx for Edibles & Elixirs, as it was known — officially opened its doors in November 1980, according to the company.

If you think “Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar” is a mouthful, just wait until you hear what the restaurant was originally called.