Some of these restaurants specialize in international flavors while others feed international travelers. The Restaurant Group (TRG) is a leading operator of casual and quick-service dining spots in the UK with more than 350 locations around the country. Its flagship brands include Frankie & Benny's, offering American and Italian cuisines, and Chiquito, featuring Mexican food and Tex-Mex favorites. It also has a cache of pubs such as Blubeckers and Brunning & Price. TRG's concessions unit, with such brands as Est Bar Est and Metro Cafe-Bar, has about 50 locations serving airports and retail areas, including London's Heathrow Airport and the Trafford Centre retail and entertainment complex in Manchester.

Balboa Brands operates and franchises the Juice It Up! chain of more than 100 smoothie stands in California and more than half a dozen other states. The outlets offer a variety of fruit and yogurt smoothies, along with other juice drinks, power shakes, and wheatgrass drinks. The Juice It Up! menu also features premium coffee and herbal teas. Larry Sidoti co-founded the chain in 1995 with three other partners. In 2008, Balboa Brands established another entity, ZIIING YOGURT, in order to sell yogurt franchises.

Full House Resorts, Inc. was founded in 1987. Full House Resorts, Inc. (Full House) develops, manages and invests in gaming-related opportunities. The Company is involved in several gaming projects, including the FireKeepers Casino near Battle Creek, Michigan, with the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (the Michigan Tribe) and Harrington Raceway and Casino (Harrington Casino), a racino in Harrington, Delaware. The Company also owns the Stockman’s Casino in Fallon, Nevada, and has an agreement with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana for the development and management of a gaming facility in Montana.

Punch is one of the UK’s leading pub companies with a portfolio of over 7,100 pubs across our leased and managed estates.In June 2009, we brought our operating businesses together under the Punch Taverns umbrella. As a result, we renamed our managed division, Punch Pub Company and our leased division Punch Partnerships. The new names and identities signify the coming together of both businesses and were timed to coincide with the opening of our new low carbon support centre building in Burton Upon Trent. Each operating business has a clearly focused strategy designed to maximise shareholder value and realise synergies across the estate, in terms of negotiating better value supplier deals and in transferring knowledge and skills.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can eat eggs 24 hours a day at Humpty's. Humpty's Restaurants International is a franchisor of family-style restaurants in Canada with more than 50 locations in Western and Central provinces. The full-service restaurants are known mostly for their breakfast menu, but they also serve such lunch and dinner favorites as burgers and sandwiches, along with steak, seafood, and chicken items. Most of the restaurants are operated by franchisees. CEO Don Koenig and his wife, Jan, own the company they started in 1977.

Lane Hospitality, a division of Lane Industries, is a Northbrook, Illinois-based hospitality company that has successfully owned and managed hotel properties since 1986. Formed by the Lane family with three hotels, we currently have 23 properties and nearly 3,400 guestrooms in our portfolio, and are continuing to expand. We work with such brands as Hilton, Marriott, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Radisson and AmeriSuites.

D'Amico & Partners, Inc. trades on the partnership between Italian cuisine and upscale locations. D'Amico & Partners is a leading fine dining operator in Minneapolis with its flagship D'Amico Cucina offering world-class cooking in the city's historic Butler Square district since 1987. The company also operates Cafe & Bar Lurcat (pronounced "lur-swah") locations in Minneapolis and Naples, Florida. In addition to fine dining, D'Amico & Partners offers casual contemporary cuisine at its handful of Campiello and D'Amico & Sons locations, as well as catering services. The family-owned business was started by brothers Richard and Larry D'Amico.

Red Hot & Blue Restaurants operates and franchises about 35 barbecue joints in Virginia, Texas, and more than half a dozen other states. Its menu boasts a variety of beef, chicken, and pork dishes, as well as sandwiches and appetizers. Most locations also offer a take-out menu and catering services. Sauces and seasonings are sold through the company's Web site. Founded in 1988, the chain was the brainchild of former congressman Don Sundquist, who later became Tennessee's governor. The company was acquired in 2006 by a private equity group led by CEO John Walker called Dancing Pigs.

National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), better known as Minor League Baseball, steps up to the plate as the governing body for nearly 20 leagues and about 250 teams, ranging from the Hickory Crawdads to the Durham Bulls to the Savannah Sand Gnats. Each team in the minor leagues (generally classified as either Rookie, Class A, Class Double-A, or Class Triple-A) is affiliated with a team in Major League Baseball and is part of a farm system to develop players hoping to make it to "The Show." Minor League Baseball also helps rehab major league players who've been sent down to work out any kinks and get back in game shape.

Thomas & King is #1 in Applebee's neighborhood. The company is one the largest franchisees of Applebee's, operating about 90 of its signature restaurants. The casual dining establishments offer a variety of menu items, such as burgers, steaks, and seafood, but are most popular for their selection of appetizers. Thomas & King also operates a half dozen Johnny Carino's Italian-themed restaurants franchised from Austin, Texas-based Fired Up. Co-founded in 1988 by CEO Mike Scanlon, the company operates restaurants in Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

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