Specialty Restaurant Group (SRG) operates about 10 casual dining restaurants under the banners American Cafe and Silver Spoon. The eateries offer a variety of regional favorites, such as barbecue ribs and Cajun-style dishes, as well as sandwiches, burgers, and steak. The company was formed in 2000 when CEO and former Ruby Tuesday executive James CarMichael led a buyout of American Cafe and Tia's Tex-Mex (sold in 2004) from Ruby Tuesday. SRG filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2007.

Wildcat Golf Club is a 36-hole golf facility that features two world-class golf courses, rolling hills, and panoramic views of the Houston skyline. Wildcat Golf club also hosts such non-golf events as conventions, wedding receptions, corporate groups, charity events, parties, reunions, bar/bat mitzvahs, and competitions. Wildcat's 15,000-sq.-ft. clubhouse features a pro shop, locker rooms and shower facilities, a restaurant, banquet facilities, Internet services, a private boardroom, and a tent pavilion for outdoor events. The club also offers learning programs through its Wildcat School of Golf.

FortuNet, Inc. (Nasdaq symbol FNET) is a licensed Nevada gaming equipment operator, manufacturer and distributor. FortuNet pioneered electronic bingo networks and multi-gaming networks in the eighties and currently manufactures and distributes its patented BingoStar network to bingo halls and casinos throughout the world. The BingoStar system smoothly integrates wireless electronic bingo player units with stationary video bingo player units in a comprehensive system that includes point-of-sale terminals and bingo caller terminals.

The Washington State Lottery Commission operates a state-run lottery and other games of chance that benefit a variety of government programs. Players can choose from a number of scratch ticket games, as well as number draw games including Hit 5, Match 4, and Lotto. Washington's Lottery also participates in the multi-state Mega Millions game. Proceeds from the lottery have been used for education and economic development programs, as well as to help fund construction of Safeco Stadium, home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team. The Washington Lottery was created in 1982.

My Gym Enterprises owns and franchises more than 200 My Gym Children's Fitness Centers in the US and 24 other countries. The company's facilities offer physical fitness and educational activities to children from three months of age to nine years old. Programs include age appropriate infant to three-year old classes where parent's play too and a series of increasingly complex gymnastics and general sport skills classes for older children. My Gym emphasizes positive reinforcement and a non-competitive environment. My Gym Enterprises was founded in 1983 by William Caplan and husband and wife Yakov and Susi Sherman.

Snowdance owns and operates Ascutney Mountain Resort, a ski facility and resort near Brownsville, Vermont. Ascutney offers skiers more than 55 trails and half a dozen lifts, as well as tree skiing areas, a learning area, and terrain park with jumps and other thrills. For accommodations and amenities, the resort features a hotel and condominiums, fitness center and spa facility, and restaurants. Summertime activities at the resort include mountain biking, tennis, hang gliding, and miniature golf. The area first became a ski resort in 1938. Steve and Susan Plausteiner have owned Ascutney since 1993.

Vongroup Limited (formerly Kamboat Group Company Limited) operates chains of Kamboat Chinese Cuisine and Kamboat Chiu Chow Cuisine restaurants in Hong Kong. The restaurants offer a variety of Chinese dishes, dim sum, and beverages. The eateries offer catering services as well. Vongroup has a significant interest in Kamboat Bakery, which distributes bakery and other food products, including festival foods, biscuits, and desserts, through more than 20 outlets. The company's restaurants and operations are located in China and Hong Kong.

Burnden Leisure owns and operates the Bolton Wanderers Football Club, a soccer team that competes in the UK Premier League. Known to supporters as the Trotters, the club was started 1874 as Christ Church FC. (It changed its name three years later.) Bolton claims three FA Cups, its last in 1958. The team's home ground is at Reebok Stadium in the Manchester area. Burnden Leisure generates revenue primarily through ticket sales, broadcasting rights fees, and the sale of merchandise. Multimillionaire Eddie Davies has controlled the company since 2003.

Cold Rock Management helps keep Australians cool with ice cream. Cold Rock Management Pty Ltd. is a leading franchisor of frozen treat outlets with its chain of about 85 Cold Rock Ice Creamery locations. The shops feature a variety of ice cream flavors, gelato, and sorbet, along with a menu of ingredients such as nuts, cookies, candies, and fruits that can be mixed into the ice cream. Each Cold Rock location features a refrigerated granite slab used for combining the ice cream with the additional ingredients. Started in the mid-1990s, the Cold Rock chain is owned by Franchised Food Company (FFC), a multi-concept franchising business controlled by Stan Gordon.

Amy's outlandish ice-cream scoopers (staff members sport unusual piercings or funky hats and are encouraged to put on a show) dish out ice cream from a rotating list of some 300 flavors, including Guinness and Shiner Bock (that's right, beer). Smoothies, malts, shakes, and other treats are all made from the rich butterfat ice cream. Amy's Ice Creams, Inc. operates more than a dozen stores in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. Amy's also caters and has wholesale operations. Its ice cream is available at dozens of Austin and Houston eateries. Owner and CEO Amy Simmons founded Amy's Ice Creams in 1984.

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