Serving breakfast foods and baked goods takes first place with this company. American Blue Ribbon Holdings (ABR) is a leading multi-concept restaurant operator with more than 300 company-owned and franchised family dining establishments operating under the Village Inn and Bakers Square brands. Serving mostly the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states, its flagship Village Inn chain with more than 200 locations is well-known for its breakfast menu and selection of baked goods. The company's Bakers Square chain is best known for its pies and other baked goods, but the eateries also serve soups and sandwiches. Formed in 2009, ABR is owned by affiliates of Fidelity National Financial and Providence Equity Partners.

Mexican Restaurants gets the prize for the most straightforward name in the book. The company operates and franchises more than 70 casual-dining Mexican restaurants located primarily in Texas. Its flagship Casa Ole chain serves standard Mexican and Tex-Mex fare, including burritos, enchiladas, and fajitas, while its Monterey's Little Mexico and Monterey's Tex-Mex Cafe units offer a mix of more authentic Mexican cuisine. In addition, the company operates a chain of half a dozen quick-casual restaurants under the Mission Burritos banner. Other brands include Crazy Jose's and Tortuga Coastal Cantina. More than 60 of the restaurants are company-owned while the rest are franchised.

You might say this company wants to bring back the Happy Days of dining. 5 & Diner of North America operates a chain of 1950s-themed restaurants with about 15 company-owned and franchised locations in Arizona and about five other states. The family-dining units sport checkered and chrome exteriors, vintage jukeboxes, and waitresses dressed in poodle skirts. The 150-item menu is also true to the retro motif, with meals named Big Bopper Burger, Blue Moon Burger, Hound Dog, La Bamba Melt, and Surf City, among others. 5 & Diner also serves egg creams, malts, and shakes for dessert. Started in 1987, the chain is controlled by chairman Robert Watson.

The Illinois Department of the Lottery runs numbers games, including Pick 3 and Pick 4, and participates in the dozen-state Mega Millions game in which players can win jackpots starting at $12 million (odds of winning: 1 in 175 million). It also offers instant-win scratch-off games. Of the money collected from ticket sales, about 60% is paid in prizes and some 30% goes to the state's Common School Fund, which helps finance K-12 public education. The rest covers retailer commissions and expenses. The Illinois Lottery operates through more than 7,500 retail businesses. For every ticket sold, retailers receive a 5% commission.

One of the largest hotel chains in Mexico, Grupo Posadas operates more than 100 resorts and hotels in 50 beach and city locations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Its nine brands include Aqua, Fiesta Americana, Fiesta Americana Grand, Fiesta Inn, One Hotels, Caesar Park, Caesar Business, The Explorean, and its most recent addition, Lat 19�. Grupo Posadas' hotels are staffed with bilingual personnel. Conventions, group gatherings, and large banquet-style events comprise much of the company's business. The company also operates Fiesta Americana Vacation Club, a vacation membership plan that offers stays at its own hotels and at other resorts through partnerships with Hilton Grand Vacations and Group RCI.

Burnley Football Club might have been a side-switcher at first, but has been true blue (or, rather, true claret and blue) ever since. Originally formed as a rugby club, the team in 1882 switched sports to become the Burnley Football Club and moved to its Turf Moor stadium grounds shortly thereafter. Burnley FC is nicknamed the Clarets, and also known as the Claret and Blue. It currently plays football (soccer) in the English Football League Championship (formerly known as Division 1). Turf Moor has a capacity of about 22,600. Burnley FC sells a variety of team merchandise through its official Web site store.

Multimedia Games' innovations have pushed the gaming industry's technology envelope. The giant strides we've made—in casino management, back-office systems development, new gaming systems, game introductions, innovative communications, networked technologies and player tracking systems—have helped position us as a leader in the world of interactive gaming systems. Multimedia continues to evolve into a leading game content and systems provider, delivering games that players want to play and the tools to make them easy to run and easy to manage. Our technical innovations are driven by twin goals.

Boston sports fans don't need St. Patrick to draw them to the TD Garden (formerly TD Banknorth Garden). Built in 1995 as a replacement for the revered but aging Boston Garden, the TD Garden serves as the home for the NBA's Boston Celtics and the NHL's Boston Bruins. The $160 million, 755,000 square-foot arena boasts a maximum capacity of about 19,600 seats, three full-service restaurants, 90 executive suites, and 1,100 club seats. In addition to sporting events, the arena also hosts concerts and other events among its 200 annual bookings. TD Garden is owned by concessions company Delaware North Companies, which is controlled by Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs.

Planet Smoothie Franchises operates a chain of more than 125 franchised smoothie stands in about 20 states. The outlets offer about 30 types of blended fruit drinks with such names as Frozen Goat, Mr. Mongo, and Spazz. Enthusiasts can customize the beverages by adding blends of supplements and vitamins (Blasts) designed to increase energy, help burn fat, or aid immune systems. Planet Smoothie Franchises, LLC also has a small number of Planet Smoothie Cafes featuring salads, sandwiches, and wraps. Entrepreneur Martin Sprock opened the first Planet Smoothie in 1995. Planet Smoothie Franchises, LLC is owned by Petrus Brands, a holding company backed by private equity firm Edmonds Capital.

USISL operates as United Soccer Leagues (USL) overseeing a collection of soccer divisions that compete in North America. Its USL First and Second Divisions feature a total of about 20 professional teams that compete in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. The USL also runs amateur leagues (Premier Development League and W-League) and youth soccer leagues (Super-20 League and Super Y-League). It is affiliated with the US Soccer Federation, along with Major League Soccer (MLS). USL began as the Southwest Indoor Soccer League in 1986; it was formed by president Francisco Marcos.

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