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.

Four Seasons Hotels provides its customers with year-round opulence. Four Seasons Hotels company manages some 80 luxury hotels and resorts in more than 30 countries. Most properties are operated under the Four Seasons name, but some are Regent hotels. It has ownership interests in only about half of its properties, having shifted from a hotel owner to a hotel operator in the 1990s. In 2007 Four Seasons Hotels board members took the company private in a deal worth nearly $4 billion. Microsoft founder Bill Gates (through his private holding company Cascade Investment) and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal's Kingdom Hotels together own 95% of the company, in equal shares. Company founder and chairman Isadore Sharp owns the rest.

If you're driving on the interstate and are looking for a hotel or a resort, Interstate Hotels & Resorts is your company. Interstate is the nation's largest independent hotel operator, managing more than 200 hotels in about 35 US states and Washington, D.C., and internationally in Canada, Belgium, Ireland, Mexico, and Russia. Its property portfolio boasts more than 45,000 rooms and includes locations affiliated with about 30 different hotel chains. Among its brands are Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Westin, Radisson, Doubletree, and Wyndham. Interstate also manages properties for some 15 independent hotels, and wholly-owns about 10 properties. Interstate was formed in 1998 as a spinoff of CapStar Hotel Company.

Patrons of this restaurant chain are hopefully well fed when it's time to say good bye. Ruby Tuesday, which takes its name from the song by the Rolling Stones, operates a leading chain of casual-dining restaurants with about 900 locations in the US and more than a dozen other countries. The full-service eateries offer a menu of American and ethnic food items, including burgers, fajitas, pasta, ribs, seafood, and steak. The restaurants are also well known for their appetizers. Found mostly in the eastern half of the country, more than 670 Ruby Tuesday locations are corporate-run, while the rest are franchised.

Atlanta Spirit owns and operates two of the city's professional sports franchises, the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team. The Hawks were formed in 1946, joined the National Basketball Association in 1949, and moved to Atlanta from St. Louis in 1968. The Thrashers joined the National Hockey League as an expansion franchise in 1999. Atlanta Spirit also operates Philips Arena, which serves as home for both teams. The sports investment partnership includes entrepreneurs Steve Belkin, Bruce Levenson, and Michael Gearon Jr.

The Virginia Lottery operates a variety of instant-win and numbers games that benefit the state's public education programs. In addition to scratch-off tickets and drawings, Virginia takes part in the multi-state Mega Millions game. Proceeds from the lottery are used to fund K-12 education programs. Virginia residents voted to create the lottery in 1987.

It was drizzling in Portland, Oregon on January 10, 1969, the day The Old Spaghetti Factory opened its doors for the first time. Standing there to greet the few customers who wandered in was the owner, Guss Dussin. Total gross sales for the night were a paltry $171.80 and many in the business who knew Dussin were convinced his hare-brained idea was a complete bust. They couldn't have been more wrong. One week later the evening's receipts rose to $900 and by the end of the year, the restaurant had sales of almost $400,000. In 1970, two more restaurants were started and company sales rose to $1.3 million. Today, The Old Spaghetti Factory is an international restaurant company serving more than 10 million customers annually. In an industry where few places ever see their seventh anniversary, The Old Spaghetti Factory's continued success is a rarity. The formula for that success has been the result of smart thinking, even smarter operating instincts, and an uncanny devotion to customer value. All were conceived by founder Dussin, whose values permeate the entire organization.

Drury isn't dreary, but it is for the weary. The company offers more than 100 places for travelers to rest their heads in some 20 states, mostly Missouri (about 35 locations) and Texas (some 20). Its hotel brands include Drury Inn, Drury Suites, Drury Inn & Suites, and Pear Tree Inn by Drury. The company also has three Drury Plaza Hotel locations that offer enhanced meeting space and on-site dining. The chain, established in 1973 by the Drury family, was one of the first hotels in the limited-service segment. The family runs the company and owns all the Drury hotels.

Casino bars may keep the booze flowing, but Money Centers of America ensures the gamblers stay liquid. Money Centers of America, Inc. develops and manufactures cash management and transaction systems including ATMs and check cashing stations designed for use by casino operators. Money Centers of America, Inc. provides hardware and services to 18 casino operations in a half dozen states. Chairman, president, and CEO Christopher Wolfington owns about 60% of the company.

Crown American reigns over an empire consisting of a couple of inns. The company manages two hotels in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, both operating under the Holiday Inn banner through franchise agreements with InterContinental Hotels. It also runs Mediterranean restaurant Harrigan's Caf� & Wine Deck, located at its downtown Johnstown hotel, and manages the Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center in Johnstown. Crown American's portfolio shrank considerably in 2005 when it sold more than 20 hotels in eastern states to an affiliate of real estate firm Archon Group. The company was founded in 1965 by Frank Pasquerilla (father of former CEO Mark Pasquerilla).

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