This company has gotten ahead in the restaurant business by holding on to a bit of the past. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store owns and operates more than 590 of its flagship restaurants known for their country kitsch, rustic decor, and down-home cooking. The eateries, located in more than 40 states, offer mostly standard American fare, such as chicken, ham, and roast beef dishes, but they are most popular as breakfast spots. Each Cracker Barrel location features a retail area where patrons can buy hand-blown glassware, cast iron cookware, and woodcrafts, as well as jellies and old-fashioned candies. Most of the restaurants are found along interstate highways and target hungry travelers.

Tix Corporation, an integrated entertainment company, focuses on ticketing services, event merchandising, and the production and promotion of live entertainment in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Ticket Services, Event and Branded Merchandising, and Live Entertainment. The Ticket Services segment provides ticketing services, including sale discount and premium tickets; offers group sale services; and sells premium tickets for sporting events, concerts, tours, and theatres. The Exhibit and Event Merchandising segment provides exhibit and event merchandising, such as the provision of retail specialty stores with branded merchandise for touring museum exhibitions and theatrical productions, and the ownership and operation of retail stores with custom-branded products for sale. The Live Entertainment segment operates as a live entertainment presenter, and produces and presents live theater and concerts.

Outdoor Resorts of America, Inc. was founded in 1969. Resorting to the outdoors isn't such a bad thing if you know where to go. Outdoor Resorts of America operates about ten high-end RV resorts around the US in locations near vacation areas such as the Ozark Mountains and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Guests can buy a lot or rent by the night or month. Resorts feature amenities like swimming pools, marinas, whirlpools, and tennis courts. Many locations are restricted to larger Class A motor homes (no pop-ups, vans, trailers, or truck campers) and offer luxuries like on-site massage, cable and Internet hookups, and private boat slips at each site.

PizzaExpress hopes its menu items will put your taste buds on the fast track to Rome. The company operates about 350 upscale-casual restaurants that specialize in authentic Neapolitan-style pizzas. Patrons can choose from almost two dozen kinds of thin-crust pies, as well as salads and a selection of antipasti (appetizers). In addition to its locations in the UK and Ireland (which operate under the Milano name), PizzaExpress has some franchised outposts in a few other countries. The company is a subsidiary of Gondola Group, which also owns ASK Restaurants. Peter Boizot opened the first PizzaExpress in 1965.

Wyndham Worldwide Corporation is a hospitality company, which offers individual consumers and business customers a range of hospitality products and services across various accommodation alternatives and price ranges through its portfolio of brands. The Company operates in three segments: Lodging, Vacation Exchange and Rentals and Vacation Ownership. Lodging franchises hotels in the upscale, midscale, economy and extended stay segments of the lodging industry and provides hotel management services for full-service hotels globally. Vacation Exchange and Rentals provides vacation exchange products and services to owners of intervals of vacation ownership interests (VOIs) and markets vacation rental properties primarily on behalf of independent owners. Vacation Ownership develops, markets and sells VOIs to individual consumers, provides consumer financing in connection with the sale of VOIs and provides property management services at resorts.

Over the past 25 years, David and Lesley Cohn have brought San Diego dining to a new level. Beginning with one small diner in 1981, Cohn Restaurant Group now owns and operates 11 restaurants within the San Diego area and a 12th restaurant in Kapalua, Maui. Each restaurant has gained respect through numerous awards and accolades, including multiple San Diego Gold Medallion Awards, Restaurateur of the Year, Gaslamp Quarter Association Lamplighter Awards, and other honors from local publications and philanthropic organizations. The impressive portfolio of modern venues is certain to please even the most discriminating diner and event planner. Each award winning restaurant is unique in its cuisine, décor, and ambiance, but they share a distinguished attention to detail that ensures every event is a resounding success. From meetings and retreats to conferences and fundraisers, the venues of Cohn Restaurant Group will add a touch of understated sophistication to corporate events of any size.

NexCen owns and manages seven brands covering Quick Service Restaurants ("QSR") and Retail Footwear and Accessories, generating revenue through the franchising of those brands worldwide. NexCen's franchised brands include five QSR brands: Great American Cookies, MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery, Marble Slab Creamery, Pretzelmaker and Pretzel Time and two franchised Retail concepts: TAF (The Athlete's Foot) and Shoebox New York. NexCen currently has approximately 1,700 franchised stores across its brands, located in over 35 countries worldwide. NexCen Brands, Inc. strategy is to create value for its stakeholders (including shareholders and franchisees) through the franchising and marketing of its brands. NexCen, through its advertising, marketing and public relations teams, markets its brands to drive greater consumer awareness and brand equity and to grow its presence worldwide through its network of franchised retail outlets. NexCen also recognizes that, as a royalty-based business, its success depends upon the success of its franchisees and through its franchisee support network, advanced information-technology systems, real estate and store opening support teams, continually seeks to provide a turn-key solution and create value for its business partners.

REEL Hospitality operates three casual-dining restaurants in Vermont and Connecticut. Its dining operations include the bistro-flavored Sweetwaters and the Italian-themed Tuscan Kitchen, both in Burlington, Vermont. REEL Hospitality also operates the Dakota Steakhouse in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The company was founded by Tony Perry as Perry Restaurant Group in 1963. Perry sold the business to a management group led by president David Melincoff in 1999.

You can get your fill of tomato sauce, and more, at these restaurants. Pasta Pomodoro operates a chain of about 30 restaurants under the Pomodoro banner offering a menu of traditional Italian cuisine. The casual eateries feature such favorites as chicken marsala, salmon cannellini, and several varieties of pasta. Pasta Pomodoro operates primarily in California but it also has a small number of restaurants in Arizona. Adriano Paganini, who previously worked as an executive chief at the Hyde Park Hotel in London, started the business in San Francisco in the early 1990s. Matthew Janopaul and Girish Satya acquired control of Pasta Pomodoro in late 2009.

Rexall Sports owns and operates the Edmonton Oilers professional hockey club, one of the more storied franchises in the National Hockey League. Founded in 1972 by sports impresario Bill Hunter as the Alberta Oilers of the World Hockey Association, the team joined the NHL in 1979 and went on to win five Stanley Cup championships. Four of those title runs were led by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, while the fifth came in 1990 after The Great One was traded to the Los Angeles Kings. The team plays host at Rexall Place. Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz (The Katz Group) acquired the team in 2008 from a group of nearly 40 investors.

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