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This Couple Named Their Daughter After Their Favorite Restaurant

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It’s 2017, all the millennials are growing up, having babies and naming them based on pop culture and taste. You don’t have to be a genius to know why Daenerys skyrocketed as a popular baby name last year. However, naming your child after your favourite character isn’t all that new (my friend has a child named Anderson, as in, Mr. Anderson, from the Matrix). What is new, is naming your child after your favourite restaurant.

That’s exactly what couple Justin and Jordan Garton did when they decided to name their soon-to-be-born daughter after their favourite chain restaurant, Olive Garden. Justin made the announcement on Twitter earlier this week, sharing a photo of a tiny onesie with the words “Olivia Garton” in the chain’s signature font.

However, the tongue-in-cheek pun of a name wasn’t only due to Olive Garden. “We can’t say that we DIRECTLY named Olivia after our favourite restaurant but there was an intentional connection,” Justin told Refinery29 in an email. “We had considered the name Olive and we got a big kick out of the pun ‘Olive Garton’ given our history with the restaurant but we wanted it to be a bit more subtle. Olivia is a beautiful name and it rolls off the tongue a little better with her middle name, Michelle.”

“Olive Garden liked her name so much that they actually reached out to us to offer Baby Olivia an early birthday present and we can’t wait, we love them even more and we didn’t think that was possible,” Justin wrote.

Whoever said that the internet was a dark and dangerous place?

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