Paul Bunker

Founder AutoAprons

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Paul Bunker is the founder of AutoAprons, a Washington, Utah consumer-products company built around a single invention: AutoApron, a waterproof, machine-washable bib fastened with a Velcro neck strap and cut for a person sitting down in a car rather than standing in a kitchen. The company sells direct to consumers through its own storefront and pitches the product at road-trip travellers, commuters and commercial drivers — anyone whose meals are eaten over their own lap. It is a small, single-product business, and Bunker’s public footprint is essentially the product itself.

Career Highlights

• Founded AutoAprons and invented the AutoApron, marketed as the first apron designed specifically for seated, in-car use.
• Signs the company’s founding account personally as “Founder, AutoApron”.
• Built the business as a direct-to-consumer operation on its own Shopify storefront, since migrated from autoaprons.com to the singular autoapron.com under the registered AutoApron mark.

Professional Journey

Bunker’s account of how the company started is specific and domestic. He was in Atlanta for a week teaching a class, stopped at a drive-thru for a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit, and ate it in the car. A flake of biscuit landed on his trouser leg unnoticed and bled into a dime-sized grease stain that he then wore for a full day in front of a class. The insight he drew was not about the stain but about the setting: people wear an apron to protect their clothes in a kitchen, and yet some of the oiliest food anyone eats is eaten in a car, where it falls straight onto the lap. The product followed from that — an apron designed for the seated position, waterproof, washable, sized for adults and children, and fastened quickly enough to be worth putting on for a drive-thru meal.

AutoAprons remains a small, single-product consumer-goods company selling direct to consumers. The storefront has since consolidated onto autoapron.com under the AutoApron® mark, with the older plural domain redirecting to it.

Beyond the founding story, Bunker’s professional background is not documented in any public source located in two research passes. That he was travelling to teach a class suggests work in training or instruction, but no employer, field or date is named anywhere, and nothing is asserted here on that basis.

Education

No educational background has been established for Paul Bunker from any publicly available source. The field is left empty rather than estimated, and the common-name collision described in the internal notes makes any inferred record particularly unsafe.