Since 1946, the bright eyed Big Boy has been keeping a smile on your face and your stomach full, but Frisch's has been around longer than that. From creating Cincinnati's first Drive-in restaurant to introducing us to the famous double-decker Big Boy sandwich, Frisch's has been a part of our lives for close to a century. Buddie Boy, Big Boy, Super Big Boy, Brawny Lad -- Frisch's burger menu reads like an arm-wrestling contest marquee. Frisch's Restaurants operates and licenses about 115 Frisch's Big Boy family-style restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Famous for its double-decker hamburgers, the Big Boy chain also offers chicken, roast beef, pasta, and seafood dinners, as well as a breakfast bar that converts to a soup and salad bar at lunch. More than 25 locations are operated by licensees. In addition, Frisch's operates about 35 buffet-style Golden Corral steak houses in many of the same areas. The family of president and CEO Craig Maier owns more than 55% of the company.

Trump Entertainment Resorts (TER, formerly Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts) owns and manages the Trump Plaza, Trump Marina, and Trump Taj Mahal casino hotels in Atlantic City, New Jersey. All totaled, the three properties house more than 3,600 rooms, about 350 gaming tables, and some 6,600 slot machines. The company also owns the right to use founder and former chairman Donald Trump's name and likeness for gambling promotions. The Trump Marina is being held for sale. Donald Trump quit the board in 2009. Days later the company filed for Chapter 11; it exited bankruptcy in 2010. (The company has filed for bankruptcy twice before -- once in 2004 and another time in the early 1990s.)

The Minnesota Vikings Football Club joined the National Football League in 1961 and won its only league championship in 1969; however, the team has been unsuccessful in four attempts to win the Super Bowl. Minnesota's roster has included such Hall of Fame players as Warren Moon, Alan Page, and Fran Tarkenton, as well as former head coach Bud Grant. Vikings fans cheer the trumpeting Gjallarhorn at Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. The team has been owned since 2005 by a group headed by New Jersey real estate developer Zygmunt (Zygi) Wilf.

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.

In 1948, Herbert and Frances (Lengfeld) Meyer, the founders of Meyer Motels, Ltd. (now known as Meyer Crest, Ltd.), purchased their first motel in Red Bluff, California. Since then, the Meyer family has owned and operated as many as 45 hotels in three Western states. Herb, a transplanted New Yorker, was a highly self-motivated man with strong aspirations. The motel business provided him with outlets for his creative energy and aspirations. Fran provided support and guidance, contributing her ideas and maintaining the accounting for the family business while also raising their four children. Throughout their younger years, all the children were involved in the family business in varying degrees.

The New England Patriots professional football franchise is one of the more popular teams in the NFL, boasting three Super Bowl championship seasons between 2001 and 2004. The team's success on the field has translated into sell-out crowds at the team's Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The franchise was founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots of the American Football League before moving to Foxborough and changing its name in 1971. Robert Kraft purchased the Patriots in 1994 and owns the franchise through his family holding company The Kraft Group.

New Jersey Basketball owns and operates the New Jersey Nets professional basketball team, a storied franchise of the National Basketball Association. Organized by Arthur Brown in 1967 as the New Jersey Americans of the American Basketball Association, the team won two ABA titles as the New York Nets with the help of Julius "Dr. J" Erving. It returned to the Garden State and joined the NBA in 1976. The team has yet to claim an NBA title. The Nets play host at The IZOD Center at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov purchased control of the Nets from New York real estate developer Bruce Ratner in 2010.

Cosi's recipe calls for one part coffee house, one part sandwich shop, and one part cocktail bar. The company operates and franchises about 150 eclectic Così cafes in almost 20 states offering premium and specialty coffees and made-to-order sandwiches. Its menu also features breakfast items (including its bagel-inspired Squagels), salads, soups, and desserts. Most of the company's restaurants also offer dinner and drinks after 5 p.m., while its Cosi Downtown units (primarily located in non-residential business districts) close in the evening. Cosi also offers delivery and catering services. About 100 of the locations are company-owned while the rest are franchised.

In 1996, a small division within Microsoft launched online travel booking site Expedia.com®, which gave consumers a revolutionary new way to research and book travel. Three years later, Expedia was spun out of Microsoft, becoming a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the symbol EXPE. Meanwhile, the other brands in the current day Expedia, Inc. portfolio were independently established and began their respective courses of development. In the first few years of the new millennium, Expedia® became – and remains – the world’s leading online travel company. By 2001, it had acquired a number of other travel companies and in 2002 InterActiveCorp (IAC) acquired a controlling interest in Expedia. Expedia grew within IAC, and its synergies with its parent company’s other travel holdings became more and more salient. In 2005, IAC spun out its travel businesses under the name Expedia, Inc. Today Expedia, Inc. is the parent company to a global portfolio of leading consumer brands.

In 1984, Morgans Hotel Group developed its first property, Morgans on Madison Avenue in New York City. An instant hit, the hotel revolutionized the hospitality industry with the introduction of the “Boutique Hotel” concept, characterized by personalized service and home-away-from-home ambiance in a setting of timeless elegance. This boutique concept was again showcased with great success at New York's Royalton, the first property designed by Philippe Starck; Royalton has since been given a dramatic redesign by New York based designers, Roman and Williams.

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