Pappas Restaurants has several ways to please the palate. The company owns and operates more than 80 restaurants encompassing more than half a dozen different casual dining concepts, including Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen, the Tex-Mex flavored Pappasito's Cantina, and Pappas Bar-B-Q. Its casual-dining spots are located primarily in Texas, with additional units operating in a half-dozen other states. Pappas Restaurants also has a couple of high-end Pappas Bros. Steakhouses, as well as Pappas Burger gourmet hamburger joints. The family-owned company was started by Chris and Harris Pappas in 1976. The brothers also own 10% of Luby's and head the executive team of the Houston-based cafeteria chain.

Lakes Entertainment, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, finances, and manages Indian-owned casino properties. As of December 31, 2009, Lakes Entertainment Inc. held development and management or financing agreements with four separate tribes for casino operations in Michigan, California, and Oklahoma for a total of five separate casino projects. Lakes Entertainment Inc. also develops non-Indian casino projects in Mississippi, Kansas, and Ohio. In addition, it develops, buys, patents, and licenses rights for new table game concepts to market/distribute and license to casinos.

This company is looking to make a strike in the recreation business. Bowl America owns and operates about 20 bowling centers in four markets, including the Baltimore-Washington, DC, area; Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; and Richmond, Virginia. The bowling centers offer a total of more than 750 lanes for both league and non-league bowling, as well as Cosmic Bowling (with glow-in-the-dark balls and laser light shows) for younger patrons. The centers also feature game rooms, food and beverage services, and other amenities. President Leslie Goldberg and his sister Merle Fabian together own more than 50% of Bowl America.

Planet Smoothie Franchises operates a chain of more than 125 franchised smoothie stands in about 20 states. The outlets offer about 30 types of blended fruit drinks with such names as Frozen Goat, Mr. Mongo, and Spazz. Enthusiasts can customize the beverages by adding blends of supplements and vitamins (Blasts) designed to increase energy, help burn fat, or aid immune systems. Planet Smoothie Franchises, LLC also has a small number of Planet Smoothie Cafes featuring salads, sandwiches, and wraps. Entrepreneur Martin Sprock opened the first Planet Smoothie in 1995. Planet Smoothie Franchises, LLC is owned by Petrus Brands, a holding company backed by private equity firm Edmonds Capital.

JOM is a leading manufacturer of professional gaming poker chips that are customizable and embedded with counterfeit protection for casinos, collectors, and retailers. JOM is a leading manufacturer of professional gaming poker chips that are customizable and embedded with counterfeit protection for casinos, collectors, and retailers. JOM Inc. operates a manufacturing facility that produces 40,000 chips per day. It makes both the ProTech and Unicorn series chips, which are played in casinos around the world. CHIPCO also makes chips with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, as well as such ancillary products as plastic chip trays and metal alloy tokens. CEO John Kendall has controlled the company since 1985. operates a manufacturing facility that produces 40,000 chips per day. It makes both the ProTech and Unicorn series chips, which are played in casinos around the world. CHIPCO also makes chips with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, as well as such ancillary products as plastic chip trays and metal alloy tokens. CEO John Kendall has controlled the company since 1985.

Bravo Restaurants, Inc. and Subsidiaries (Bravo) operate restaurants under the name of Edwardo's Natural Pizza Restaurants and Gino's East Restaurants. Bravo owns, manages, licenses, and franchises restaurants and other business ventures and facilities. Bravo owns the worldwide rights to the Edwardo's and Gino's East Restaurant concepts. Bravo manages the restaurants it owns, and provides on a fee basis, management and consulting services to others. Most of Bravo's customers are located in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The premises of restaurants are primarily leased. Bravo also operates a wholesale frozen food division through its wholly owned subsidiary Bravo Foods, Inc.

Esporta is trying to buff up the British Empire. Formerly First Leisure, the company operates about 15 racquet clubs and more than 50 luxury health and fitness clubs across the UK and Ireland. Its clubs generally feature gymnasiums, swimming pools, saunas, food and beverage services, and beauty salons, while some of its locations also sport tennis courts and golf courses. The company was founded 1994 with the purchase of the Royal County of Berkshire Health & Racquets Club. It is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of French bank Société Générale.

Over the past 50 years, Denny’s has been bringing on the day with round-the-clock breakfast and casual family dining across America. From freshly cracked eggs to craveable salads and burgers, Denny’s has an endless list of possibilities to fuel your day. And with approximately 1,500 restaurants nationwide, wherever you are, wherever you’re going, a fresh start is never too far away. At Denny’s, it’s always a new day, and it’s yours for the taking.

Crystal Palace F.C. (2000) owns and operates Crystal Palace F.C., a professional soccer team that completes in the UK's Football League Championship. Known to supporters as The Eagles, the team was formed in 1905 and took its name from London's Crystal Palace, a building made of wrought iron and glass built to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 (the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions). Crystal Palace F.C. has called Selhurt Park its home ground since 1924. Controlled by chairman Simon Jordan since 2000, the company was put into administration in early 2010.

Founded by David T. Nederlander, the Nederlander Organization began in 1912 with the purchase of a 99-year lease on the old Detroit Opera House. Now into their third generation of theatre development, ownership, management and production, the Nederlander Organization is one of the largest, most experienced operators of live theatre. Generally credited with creating the outdoor amphitheater concept as it is known today, the Nederlanders developed a unique ability to maintain a variety booking approach that responded to varied community interests. Under the guidance of its Chairman, James M. Nederlander and its President, James L. Nederlander, these policies have included a significant effort to produce and present cultural attractions such as the Bolshoi Ballet, The Moiseyev Ballet, The D'oyly-Carte Opera, The Georgian State Dance Company, Ballet Folklorico, The Peking Opera and local symphonies.

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