MGM Grand Hotel operates one of the world's largest casino resorts. Opened in 1993, the MGM Grand Las Vegas includes four towers with more than 6,000 hotel rooms and some 160,000 sq. ft. of casino space, which includes some 2,500 slot machines and 160 table games. The casino, which takes up an entire city block on the Las Vegas Strip, also serves as a venue for concerts, sporting events, and magic shows. Other attractions include a Cirque du Soleil show, restaurants from celebrity chefs such as Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse, shopping outlets, a swimming-pool complex, a spa, a wedding chapel, and a lion habitat. MGM Grand is a subsidiary of MGM Resorts International.

155 East Tropicana, LLC engages in the ownership of Hooters Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of December 31, 2009, The Hooters Casino Hotel featured 696 hotel rooms and an approximately 29,000 square-foot casino floor with approximately 615 slot and video poker machines and 24 table games. It also features a tropical pool area; various dining and entertainment options, including restaurant, a Night Owl showroom featuring nightly entertainment, a casual indoor-outdoor club, and a casual bar; and retail stores. 155 East Tropicana, LLC was founded in 2004 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. 155 East Tropicana, LLC is a subsidiary of Florida Hooters LLC.

Stuft Pizza Franchise Corporation operates a chain of about 15 casual-dining restaurants known for their gourmet pizzas. The eateries, operating under the Stuft Pizza Bar & Grill banner, offer a wide variety of pizzas, as well as pasta dishes and sandwiches. The chain is found primarily in California. Company president Jack Bertram started Stuft Pizza in 1976.

If you're so hungry you could eat a horse, ride into the Golden Corral. The company operates and franchises more than 480 steak buffet restaurants in 40 states, primarily in the Southeast. The family dining locations serve a variety of steak, chicken, and pork entrees along with an expansive buffet offering both hot and cold food items. Golden Corral units also feature a Brass Bell Bakery serving freshly baked breads, rolls, cookies, and brownies, as well as a Dessert Cafe. Most of the steak buffet eateries are operated by franchisees. Chairman James Maynard, who controls Golden Corral through his holding company, Investors Management Corp., founded the chain with partner Bill Carl in 1973.

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.

This company is far from being a pint-sized player in the UK pub industry. Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is one of that country's largest restaurant and pub operators with nearly 2,000 establishments. Its estate of public houses include such popular branded and managed chains as Ember Inns, Nicholson's, and O'Neill's. M&B also operates a bevey of local community pubs throughout the country, as well as music clubs (Babylon, Reflex), cosmopolitan bars, and restaurants. In addition to food and drinks, the company's Innkeeper's Lodge pub chain features about 750 hotel rooms.

APEX Restaurant Group manages two casual dining restaurant chains with a handful of locations operating under the banners Blue Chalk Cafe and Left at Albuquerque. It also provides marketing, consulting, and administrative support services to third-party restaurant chains. CEO Mark Bromberg, formerly chairman of Metromedia's restaurant division, and partner John Todd formed the company in 2002.

Don't let the mouse mascot fool you: This amusement kingdom is founded on the power of pizza. CEC Entertainment operates the Chuck E. Cheese's chain of pizza parlors with more than 540 locations throughout the US, Canada, and a half dozen other countries. The restaurants cater mostly to families with children and feature dining-room entertainment provided by robotic characters, arcade games, and other activities. (The eateries are especially popular destinations for birthday parties.) Games and merchandise account for about 50% of sales. The menu features pizzas, sandwiches, salads, and desserts. CEC Entertainment owns and operates about 500 of the pizza and fun joints, while the rest are franchised.

Jazzercise shows people how to shake their booties toward fitness. A leading fitness instruction operator, the company has more than 7,800 franchised instructors across the US and in more than 30 countries offering some 32,000 weekly fitness classes that blend jazz dancing with an aerobic workout. Jazzercise generates revenue through franchise fees, as well as the sale of clothing, books, and other merchandise. The company's JM DigitalWorks unit produces Jazzercise workout tapes and provides video production services to other clients. Its Jazzertogs division offers fitness apparel and accessories. CEO Judi Sheppard Missett, a professional dancer, founded Jazzercise in 1969 and began franchising in 1980.

Pittsburgh Steelers Sports has forged a championship tradition in Steel Town. The company owns and operates the Pittsburgh Steelers professional football franchise, which has won a record six Super Bowl titles. The team joined the National Football League in 1933 as the Pirates (renamed in 1940) but claimed only eight winning seasons during its first 40 years. However, the Steelers dominated the 1970s when the team won four championships under head coach Chuck Noll with the help of such stars as Terry Bradshaw and Lynn Swann. Pittsburgh won its latest Super Bowl following the 2008 season. Dan Rooney, son of late team founder Art Rooney, and his son Art Rooney II lead a group that owns the Steelers.

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