This company offers something nostalgic for dinner. Silver Diner owns and operates about 15 restaurants in the Washington, DC/Baltimore metropolitan area that recreate the look and feel of a 1950s diner. The eateries, appointed with polished stainless steel, glass blocks, and tabletop jukeboxes, offer such time-honored diner fare as buttermilk pancakes, meatloaf, and apple pie. Silver Diner locations are typically open for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night meals. CEO Bob Giaimo and executive chef Ype Von Hengst started the company in 1989.

RMS Titanic has sole salvage rights, subject to a federal judge's annual review, to the doomed ship that struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. In seven expeditions (conducted in 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2004) to the Titanic wreck site, which lies in the Atlantic ocean about 400 miles off the southern coast of Newfoundland, RMS has recovered some 5,500 artifacts. RMS Titanic, Inc. operates seven Titanic exhibitions, six of which are known as Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition and one of which is known as Titanic Science. It earns its money through ticket sales, third party licensing, sponsorship, and merchandise sales. RMS is owned by Premier Exhibitions.

The Continental Basketball Association is the grand daddy of pro hoops worldwide. The CBA, founded in 1946, is the oldest professional basketball league in the world, predating the NBA by just a few months. Considered minor league play, the CBA fields ten teams, located primarily in the Midwestern US with names like the Albany (New York) Patroons, Atlanta Krunk, and the Minot (North Dakota) Skyrockets. Most CBA players try to use the league as a launching pad into the NBA, about 600 have succeeded. It also serves as the training ground for officials and coaches who want to make the jump to the big leagues.

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.

7 Days Group Holdings offers accommodations for the cost-conscious traveler every day of the week. The company operates roughly the third largest economy hotel chain in China under the 7 Days Inn brand. It has more than 280 hotels in operation across major metropolitan areas, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The group typically leases and converts existing real estate properties, rather than undertaking the costlier method of building new ones. It also licenses its 7 Days Inn brand to third parties and manages some of its hotels. The group filed to go public in November 2009 to take advantage of China's rapidly growing but fragmented economy lodging industry.

The Missouri Lottery Commission offers lotto number games (Pick 3, Pick 4, Lotto), as well as scratch-off and pull-tab games (Solid Gold, Count De Money, Cashville). Missouri also participates in the multi-state lottery known as PowerBall. The Missouri Lottery sells its gaming products through a network of about 5,000 retailers located throughout the state. First created in 1985, proceeds from the Missouri lottery directly fund the state's public education system, a change that occured in 1994.

Sally Industries, Inc. makes robotic characters and figures for use in theme parks, museums, motion pictures, and retail stores worldwide. Sally also provides electronic control and audio systems, staging, lighting, and sound track production. In addition, the firm creates and installs entire attractions and interactive rides, such as Cedar Fair's Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion and Universal Parks' E.T.'s Adventure. Other examples of the company's work includes figures for Disney on Ice, and characters for hotels and casinos (MGM Grand), stores and malls (Macy's), trade shows and fairs (Royal Bank of Scotland), and museums (Mexico City Museum).

Beate Uhse AG is Europe's largest porn retailer, selling erotic lingerie, sex toys, and videos through its mail-order catalog (PABO by Beate Uhse) and its chain of nearly 300 sex shops in about 10 countries. In addition, Beate Uhse offers adult content through its Web site operations, telephone sex network, and 49%-owned Beate-Uhse.TV in Germany. Beate Uhse AG also has a wholesale manufacturing business with two latex products plants in Germany and the Netherlands, and it owns 30% of Content Group (formerly erotic media), a film licensing operation with a portfolio of some 6,000 erotic films.

Maccioni Restaurants (and the Maccioni family) operate five restaurants - three locations of the upscale Le Cirque and two of its Italian cousins, Osteria Del Circo. The flagship Le Cirque in New York City reopened in 2006 in a new location that seats 150. The other locations are in Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel (owned by MGM Resorts) and the Camino Real hotel in Mexico City (owned by RealTurismo). The Le Cirque concept is known for its elegant design and its stunning menu of French and Italian cuisine. Osteria Del Circo is located in New York City and the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Maccioni opened the original Le Cirque in the Mayfair Hotel in 1974.

Brunning & Price is a subsidiary of dining companyThe Restaurant Group (TRG) that operates a small collection of pubs located mostly in northwest England. The pubs are housed in distinct and historic buildings, some dating back to the 16th century. Each location offers a menu of food along with a selection of beers and other beverages.Jerry Brunning left the world of advertising and marketing to buy his first pub in 1981; managing director Graham Price joined as a partner in 1988. Brunning & Price has been part of TRG since 2007.

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