Through almost 20 years of serving up the finest ice cream, cakes, smoothies and shakes, some things have certainly changed. And frankly, some things haven’t. Ever since we opened our first store back in 1988, we’ve been serving up what we refer to as Creations™. In other words, if you want it in your ice cream – you get it. By mixing nuts, fruits and candy into our smooth and creamy ice cream on a frozen granite stone (around here, we call it “the stone”) we're actually more like ice cream artists. Rest assured, our expertise in innovating indulgence didn’t just happen by accident. Cold Stone Creamery, Inc. founders, Donald and Susan Sutherland, discovered their true calling in 1988 when, driven by their passion to serve the world's best ice cream, they opened the first Cold Stone Creamery in Tempe, Arizona. And now, more than 1,400 stores later, people have really warmed up to their cool idea.

Gold's Gym, which first opened in Venice Beach, California in 1965, has more than 700 gyms in nearly 30 countries, with franchises accounting for most of its locations. The chain boasts more than 3 million members. In addition to opening franchises, the firm buys smaller regional health clubs and converts them to Gold's Gyms. The company also licenses the Gold's Gym name for products such as fitness equipment and accessories, luggage, t-shirts, and men's and women's sportswear. Gold's Gym is owned by TRT Holdings, the umbrella company for Dallas-based investor Robert Rowling's holdings.

Consilience Restaurants owns and operates a small portfolio of upscale dining and drinking spots in the Dallas area. Its restaurants include the Cuba Libre Café, Hibiscus, The Porch, and Westside Tavern. Consilient Restaurants, L.P. also operates Victor Tango's, an upscale cocktail bar. In addition to its signature destinations, Consilience Restaurants operates a small chain of gourmet pizza joints under the name Fireside Pies. CEO Tristan Simon founded the restaurant company in 1999.

Luminar lights up the UK dance scene as the country's leading nightclub operator. The company has about 90 clubs catering to a variety of tastes and operating under a small portfolio of brands. Its estate includes Liquid, a chain of discos known for stimulating visual effects, and a multi-roomed concept called Oceana. Luminar also operates Lava & Ignite, a dance club format featuring two differently themed rooms. Other club formats include Life, a pub-style concept designed for smaller markets, and The Jam House, a live music venue developed by musician Jools Holland. In addition, Luminar operates a number of local clubs under a variety of names.

These Jets begin boarding at the start of every football season. A storied franchise in the National Football League, the New York Jets claim just one Super Bowl title, but its victory over the favored Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) in 1969 was one of the more famous matches in the history of championship. The franchise, founded by broadcaster Harry Wismer as the Titans, was a founding member of the American Football League in 1960 and joined the NFL when the leagues merged in 1970. Robert Johnson IV, whose family founded pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, has owned the team since 2000.

ClubCorp is one of the world's largest operators of golf courses and private clubs with more than 150 facilities throughout the US and in a small number of international locations. Its resorts and golf courses include such well known venues as Firestone Country Club (Akron, Ohio), The Homestead Club (Hot Springs, Virginia), and Mission Hills Country Club (Rancho Mirage, California). ClubCorp also operates private business and sports clubs. Robert Dedman started the company in 1957. It is owned by private equity firm KSL Capital Partners.

The Majestic Star Casino, LLC ("the Company") was formed by Mr. Don Barden in December 1993 to pursue one of two gaming licenses at Buffington Harbor in Gary, Indiana. In June 1996, along with Trump Indiana, both companies opened dockside facilities to take advantage of gaming opportunities in the Chicagoland market, now the third largest gaming market in the United States behind Las Vegas and Atlantic City.In December 2001, the Company grew substantially with the purchase of the Fitzgerald-brand properties in Las Vegas, Tunica, Mississippi (30 miles south of Memphis) and Black Hawk, Colorado (35 miles west of Denver). With these additions, the Company diversified itself into a national gaming company.

EIH Ltd. was founded in 1934 by former chairman Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi, who died in 2002 at the age of 103. Asian elegance is the key to running hotels, if you ask EIH (better known as The Oberoi Group). EIH company owns and operates about 30 hotels and luxury cruisers in five countries under the Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and Trident brands. The Oberoi Group operates primarily in India, but also has hotels in Egypt, Indonesia, Mauritius, and Saudi Arabia. In addition, The Oberoi Group operates luxury cruises of the Nile River and India's Kerala region.

Consolidated Restaurants operates about a dozen upscale and casual-dining restaurants in the Seattle area, including DC's Grill, The Metropolitan Grill, Steamer's Seafood Cafe, Quincy's Chargrilled Burgers, and Wing Dome Restaurants, and Elliott's Oyster House. Consolidated Restaurants' Royal Argosy is a fine dining dinner ship (operating in partnership with Argosy Cruises) that offers lunch and dinner cruises around Puget Sound. The late David Cohn founded Consolidated Restaurants as Barb Enterprises when he opened his first restaurant in Seattle in 1951.

The menu for this company includes a family-style dinner and pie for dessert. Perkins & Marie Callender's operates and franchises more than 600 full-service restaurants under the banners Perkins Restaurant & Bakery and Marie Callender's Restaurant & Bakery. Its Perkins chain, with about 480 locations, offers standard American fare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, along with fresh muffins, pies, and cakes. Many locations are open 24 hours a day. Its Marie Callender's chain boasts about 130 locations, offering traditional comfort foods, along with fresh baked desserts. Some 250 of the restaurants are company-owned. Perkins & Marie Callender's is owned by private equity firm Castle Harlan.

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