Mammoth Mountain is one big pile of powder. The ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range gets more than 30 feet of snow a year on average on top of its more than 3,500 skiable acres. The resort features ski lifts, rental shops, restaurants, ski and snowboard schools, and lodging. Its hotels include the luxury Village Lodging, Mammoth Mountain Inn (hotel and condo), Juniper Springs Resort (condo units), and Tamarack Lodge (rustic cabins and lodge). Summer activities include mountain biking, fishing, golf, and climbing, while Yosemite is less than an hour away. Mammoth is owned and operated by Starwood Capital, which paid some $365 million for a controlling interest in the resort in 2005.

Primm Casinos operates three casinos in Primm, Nevada (located on the border between southern California and southern Nevada). Its Whiskey Pete's, Buffalo Bill's, and Primm Valley Resort properties together offer more than 3,200 slot machines, 85 gaming tables, race and sports books, poker, and keno. The facilities also include about 2,650 hotel rooms, live entertainment, convention space, and several restaurants. In addition, the properties collectively own and manage three gas station/convenience stores, a Starbucks outlet, and one California Lottery lotto store. Primm Casinos is a subsidiary of Herbst Gaming.

La Quinta...Spanish for "Next to Denny's?" LQ Management is owner of the La Quinta (which is Spanish for the villa) hotel brand. The company has hotels throughout the US (about 45 states), Canada, and Mexico under the La Quinta Inns and La Quinta Inn & Suites brands. LQ Management franchises the majority of its properties. The growing company has more than 750 hotels, which encompass some 65,000 guest rooms; in addition, it has some 250 properties in the development pipeline. La Quinta hotels operate in the limited service, midscale segment. It targets a mix of corporate and leisure travelers. LQ Management is owned by investment firm The Blackstone Group.

In the past, the world knew us as IHOP, an American icon to our guests and a franchising company that was focused on providing strategic leadership and vision for our franchisees and on enhancing value for our shareholders. With this dedicated focus, we cultivated a core expertise in brand revitalization and franchising know-how which became the basis for the winning formula that has defined the financial success of our business in recent years. With the addition of Applebee’s to the IHOP family of restaurants in November 2007, we made a bold new commitment to our brand revitalization abilities and to the power of franchising. DineEquity promises to make our two businesses more powerful and more successful than either brand could have been apart. Along with our new name comes a new opportunity to focus even more clearly on how we win: energizing our brands, improving the operational performance of our franchise systems, and maximizing franchise development. These goals, along with our intention to transform Applebee’s to a nearly 99% franchised system, will inform how DineEquity provides leadership for our Applebee’s and IHOP brands, today and into the future.

Mean Fiddler may be playing your tune. Mean Fiddler Music Group is one of the UK's leading promoters of music festivals and venues. It owns more than a dozen venues, including Jazz Cafe, Relentless Garage, Warehouse, and The Borderline, and promotes such events as the Reading Festival, Leeds, and Latitude. An investment firm formed by Clear Channel Entertainment (now Live Nation Entertainment) and Dublin's music promotion firm MCD Productions (led by music entrepreneur Denis Desmond) acquired Mean Fiddler Group in 2005. Mean Fiddler was founded as a single live-music club in 1982 by former chairman Vince Power.

The Caffe Nero philosophy is really very simple. Coffee. Atmosphere. Food and service are the key elements to our business and excellence in all four areas is required in order to achieve our aim. Caffe Nero Group Ltd. are dedicated to providing our customers with a great cup of coffee and a quality snack in a warm, authentic European coffee house atmosphere served in a friendly manner. Nothing less than this is acceptable. The linchpin of our brand is our coffee. We place great emphasis and expend copious amounts of time and energy on supplying a high quality range of espresso – based coffee. Caffe Nero Group Ltd. use a unique Italian blend made up of seven different beans for our house coffee, which is exclusive to Caffè Nero and roasted to our precise specifications. The final product is a richer, stronger coffee flavour than that served by our rivals.

Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Inc., a service management company, engages in developing and managing hospitality-related businesses. It operates hotels, restaurants, and spas. The company also manages various residential projects, such as condominium communities with hotel-style services and amenities. In addition, the company offers pre-opening and ongoing management, and advisory services. Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in San Francisco, California. Joie de Vivre Hospitality company has hotels in Sonoma and Marin Counties, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Silicon Valley, San Francisco East Bay, Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Coastal regions.

Brazil Fast Food has neither a clown nor a king, just Bob. The company operates Bob's, Brazil's #2 fast-food chain (behind McDonald's) with about 640 locations. The chain serves a standard burger-and-fries menu, featuring a specially spiced hamburger and popular milk shakes. Its chain includes more than 270 kiosks and trailers that sell burgers during Carnival (where it is the exclusive provider of burgers) and other special events. About 60 of Brazil Fast Food's outlets are company-owned, while the rest are operated by franchisees. A group of shareholders including chairman Omar Carneiro da Cunha and former CEO Peter van Voorst Vader owns more than 50% of the company.

Carlson Restaurants Worldwide (CRW) has a lot of Friday's for which to be thankful. A leader in full-service restaurants, the company operates and franchises more than 900 T.G.I. Friday's casual dining locations across the US and in about 60 other countries. The restaurant chain offers a menu featuring beef, chicken, and seafood entrees along with a selection of popular appetizers. About 300 T.G.I. Friday's units are company-owned while the rest are franchised. The company also operates Pick Up Stix, an Asian-themed fast-casual chain with more than 90 locations in California, Nevada, and Arizona. CRW is a subsidiary of travel and leisure conglomerate Carlson Companies.

QMH Ltd. company is owned by a consortium of private equity investors comprised of the Whitehall 2001 Funds, Goldman Sachs, and Regina Investments Sarl. QMH is a leading operator of mid-priced hotels in the UK with a portfolio of nearly 20 properties. Most of the company's hotels operate under the Holiday Inn brand, but QMH also operates a handful of Crowne Plaza and Best Western hotels. The properties are located mostly in smaller markets, and target both business and leisure travelers with a range of amenities including business centers and conference rooms, as well as health and fitness clubs.

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