Talk:Papa's Taco Mia!/@comment-26260624-20150411144343/@comment-6268337-20150411144828

From the Flipline Blog:

''We’re notoriously bad at coming up with titles for our games, but we thought we’d have an easy time with this one. “Papa’s Pizzeria” was a natural choice for the original game, and for the sequel we tried to build on that familiarity with the somewhat-goofy “Papa’s Burgeria”. For the new game we originally decided on “Papa’s Taqueria”, since taco shops occasionally go by that name, and we had that matching “-ia” at the end of the title.

The more we looked at the title though, the more we realized how awkward it could be for players. A good amount of our regular fans are from Spanish-speaking countries, so we liked having the authentic Spanish word “taqueria” in the title. The problem is that the word is rarely used in English (unlike the familiar “pizzeria”), and unless you frequent a lot of taquerias you may not see the root word “taco” in the name, especially with the spelling change adding a “Q” in the middle.

We were actually hung up on the title for a few weeks, trying to find something similar to the earlier titles so it felt like it was part of the series, without confusing a chunk of our fans with awkward spellings. We tried different suffixes and even going with a phonetic spelling, though it was hard to guess how to pronounce “Tacoria” when reading it out loud, and it sounded more like a fantasy kingdom than a restaurant.

In the end, we came up with “Papa’s Taco Mia!” – making sure “taco” was clear in the title, trying to evoke the feel of “Mama Mia!”, and also getting it pretty close to matching with the other games’ titles. ''