How many times have you and your young professional buddies been sitting around your SoFi loft and suddenly realized that there simply isn't a restaurant out there for the discriminating Counter-Strike player? Does this only happen to me? If you were in LA, you'd be in luck:

Bushnell and his company, uWink, are preparing to open a video-game-themed restaurant aimed at adults in Los Angeles this fall.

Called the uWink Media Bistro, the eatery will allow customers to play video games, catch up on internet-based entertainment and order food via flat-panel displays angled over each table.

Yes, what a wonderful idea. It's just... where have I heard tham name before?

If consumers do flock to the uWink Media Bistro, one person is concerned about the impact it could have on her business. Laurel Touby, founder and CEO of mediabistro.com, a website that offers media news, employment listings, classes for media professionals and the media association AvantGuild, said she was aghast when she found out about the restaurant.

"I mean, here was something I'd spent years of my life building and it looked like someone else was trying to capitalize on it," she said.

Touby thinks people will be confused about the difference between the two businesses. She's even thought of opening her own restaurant-type business for media professionals, she said.

Ok, we respect your trademark, but a "restaurant-type business for media professionals" might be just about the only idea dumber than the videogame bar. And... well, what the hell is a "restaurant-type business"? A grocery store? -AP

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