Athletics Investment Group makes sure Oakland baseball fans get all A's. The company owns and operates the Oakland Athletics professional ballclub, a charter franchise of the American League that formed in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics. Better known as the A's, the team moved to Kansas City in 1955 before settling in the Bay Area in 1968. The franchise plays host at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, which it shares with the Oakland Raiders football team; Oakland boasts nine World Series championships and 15 AL pennants. Los Angeles real estate developer Lewis Wolff (co-founder of Maritz, Wolff & Co.) has controlled the A's since 2005.The Athletics Investment Group owns the Oakland Athletics franchise, one of the most storied and controversial teams in major league baseball history. Located for 54 years in Philadelphia, and for 12 in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to Oakland, California, the Athletics (A's) have won 14 divisional titles, 15 American League pennants, and nine World Series Championships. The team makes its home in Network Associates Coliseum (formerly the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum) although their future in Oakland remained uncertain. Sharing the relatively small Bay Area sports market with the National League's San Francisco Giants, the A's financial situation has long been unstable. For at least five years, The Athletics Investment Group has been searching for a buyer for the team. Still, the company realized an estimated $96 million in revenues in 2002.

RMR Colorado owns and operates about 10 Black-eyed Pea restaurants in Colorado. The family dining establishments are known for serving a variety of comfort foods, including such main dishes as roast turkey and chicken fried steak; the menu also includes grilled beef, seafood, sandwiches, and a wide array of side dishes. Most of the Black-eyed Pea locations are found in the Denver area. The concept was launched in 1975 by Gene Street and Phil Cobb. Brothers Steve and Jim Shaw along with partner Alan Laughlin formed RMR Colorado to purchase the eateries from BEP Colorado Restaurants.

Company founded on ice cream but built around families. We opened our first Friendly's Ice Cream Shop in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1935. Friendly's is a place where hungry people can sit together, eat together, joke together and debate about who has the best way to eat an ice cream sundae, where sons can find out why lefty pitchers are harder to hit and where families can meet up to get an extra fifteen minutes of talk time over our famous ice cream. We are committed to quality in everything we do, from our made to order Friendly's Big Beef® Burgers to our signature SuperMelt™ Sandwiches every meal with classic comfort foods and delicious new dishes that you can only find at Friendly's. And we end every meal with unbelievable homemade ice cream in limitless sizes, shapes, and flavors.For over 70 years, we've built a place that brings you a friendly staff, reasonable prices, and a thousand sweet ways to end your day. That's why we truly are the one place Where Ice Cream Makes The Meal®.

You might say this company keeps the nightlife lively in the Northwest. McMenamins is a diversified leisure company that operates a portfolio of more than 50 pubs, bars, microbreweries, and restaurants in Oregon and Washington under such names as Blue Moon Tavern & Grill, High Street Brewery & Cafe, and Market Street Pub, as well as a number of locations under the McMenamins brand name. It also operates eight historic hotels, eight movie theaters, and several live music venues. Brothers Mike and Brian McMenamin started their pub and hotel empire with some college friends (who've since moved on) in 1974.

Doing business as The HEAT Group, Miami Heat Limited Partnership owns and operates the Miami Heat professional basketball team, which joined the National Basketball Association in 1988 as an expansion franchise. The team has made several playoff appearances and earned its first and only NBA championship title in 2006 with the help of such stars as Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade. Miami area fans cheer on their team at the American Airlines Arena. The family of Carnival CEO Micky Arison has controlled the basketball franchise since its founding.

SpringHealth Leisure hopes that going private will be its springboard back to fiscal health. The company, which operates gym facilities in the UK, was taken private by chairman Sandy Anderson in 2005. The company's five London-area SpringHealth Leisure Clubs typically offer such amenities as swimming, court sports, makeovers, and massage in addition to aerobics classes, personal trainers, and weight machines. SpringHealth Leisure operates the publicly owned swim and fitness facility (Pools on the Park) at Richmond. Prior to Anderson's move to privatize the company, it had already divested nine other health clubs and a restaurant.

PDB Sports owns and operates the Denver Broncos professional football team, one of the more successful franchises in the National Football League. The Broncos made four Super Bowl appearances in the 1970s and 1980s before winning back-to-back championships following the 1997 and 1998 seasons. The franchise was founded by local sports entrepreneur Bob Howsam and first took the field in 1960 as part of the American Football League. Denver joined the NFL when the two leagues merged in 1970. The team plays host at Denver's INVESCO Field at Mile High. President and CEO Pat Bowlen and his family have owned the Broncos since 1985.

This restaurant chain has been feeding boys big and small for more than 70 years. Big Boy Restaurants International operates and franchises more than 150 of its signature family-dining spots in Michigan and more than half a dozen other states. Known for their hamburgers (and the iconic Big Boy figure holding a plate-sized sandwich), the restaurants also offer a full menu of breakfast options along with such home style dinner favorites as meat loaf, pork chops, and chicken fried steak. More than 20 locations are company-owned, while the rest are franchised. The company also has some 300 licensed Big Boy units operating in Japan. Founded by Bob Wian in 1936, the Big Boy chain is owned by chairman Robert Liggett.

Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book a broad range of travel products. Orbitz Worldwide owns a strong global portfolio of consumer travel brands that includes Orbitz, CheapTickets, ebookers, HotelClub, RatesToGo, the Away Network, Asia hotels, and corporate travel brand Orbitz for Business.

With this family around, there's no reason to ever go hungry in the Adirondacks. Along with sister company Kessler Group, Kessler Family operates as Kessler Restaurants, a leading multi-concept restaurant operation with more than 65 locations primarily in upstate New York. It is the largest franchisee of Friendly Ice Cream with more than 45 Friendly's family-dining restaurants. The company also operates about 20 Burger King franchises. Brothers Larry and Dennis Kessler started the family-owned business with a single Burger King unit in 1975.

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