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Applebee's International

Abblebee's International, Inc., develops franchises and operates restaurants under the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar brand, the largest casual dining concept in the world.

Arby's Restaurant Group

Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. is an Atlanta-based company that is the franchisor of the Arby's restaurant system, which consists of nearly 3,500 restaurants worldwide, and is owner and operator of more than 1,000 restaurants located in the United States. Founded in 1964, Arby's quick service restaurants specialize in offering slow roasted and freshly sliced roast beef sandwiches as well as its Market Fresh ® deli-style sandwiches, wraps and salads with the convenience of a drive-thru. Arby's offers guests a unique, better tasting alternative to traditional fast food with its one-of-a-kind menu items including the Beef �n Cheddar, Curly Fries and Jamocha shakes. Arby's Restaurant Group also owns and operates the T.J. Cinnamons® brand and is a subsidiary of Triarc Companies, Inc.

Boddie Noell Enterprises (Hardees)

Boddie-Noell began in 1962 when Carleton Noell and his two entrepreneurial nephews, Mayo and Nick Boddie, opened one of the first Hardee's restaurants in Fayetteville, NC. Today, with over 12,000 employees, it is one of the country's largest privately held companies. BNE is the largest franchisee of Hardee's Food Systems, operating over 300 restaurants in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina. Boddie-Noell also operates 36 Texas Steakhouses across North Carolina, Virgina, and West Virginia. BNE Land & Development has taken the company into development of both commercial and resort properties.

Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy

Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores is a family-owned and operated chain of fast-food restaurants based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . It currently has locations in Oklahoma and in parts of Texas , Kansas , Arkansas and Missouri .

The restaurants serve ice cream, hamburgers, sandwiches, salads and breakfast items. Each store also includes a grocery section featuring dairy products, baked goods, beverages, frozen entrees, meats and produce.

Almost all the food products sold at Braum's are processed or manufactured directly by the company; Braum's owns its own dairy herd, processing plant, bakery, stores and delivery trucks. It also owns seven farms and ranches totaling more than 40,000 acres (160 km²), including its flagship family farm in Tuttle, Oklahoma . Braum's describes itself as the only major ice cream maker to still milk its own cows.

Captain D's

The first Captain D's opened in Donelson, TN in 1969. It was then called Mr. D's. And the big idea behind it was to serve high quality, quick-service seafood. Over 30 years later this big idea, now Captain D's, has grown to almost 600 restaurants in 23 states.

Carrols Corporation (Burger King)

Carrols Corporation is one of the largest restaurant companies in the U.S and is headquartered in Syracuse, New York. Carrols owns, operates and franchises more then 550 restaurants under the Burger King®, Pollo Tropical®, Taco Cabana® brands. Carrols operates in 17 states, employs over 16,000 people and has sales of approximately $640 million.

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Founded in 1963, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf ® is the oldest and largest privately held chain of specialty coffee and tea stores in the United States. With a reputation for excellence, the company is a leader in product innovations, having developed the original Ice Blended®. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf ® serves more than 100 million coffee and tea beverages annually worldwide. Providing the highest quality coffees and teas for forty years, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf ® currently has more than 270 stores in California, Arizona, Nevada, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Brunei, Indonesia, UAE, Israel, Australia, China and the Philippines and continues to expand both domestically and internationally.

Cousin's Subs

Cousins Subs is based in Milwaukee, Wis., and is a national sub sandwich chain with stores throughout the Midwest and on the West Coast. The tradition of Cousins Subs started in 1972, when two transplanted cousins from Atlantic City saw the need for an East-coast style sub shop in their new hometown. They patterned their subs after the hoagie, grinder, hero and sub sandwiches they enjoyed back East. From the start, the two used bread baked fresh every morning and insisted on using only the finest, freshest ingredients.

Denny's

Denny's is America's largest full-service family restaurant chain, consisting of 546 company-owned units and 1,036 franchised and licensed units, with operations in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Guam, Mexico, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

Falcon Holdings (Chruch's Chicken)

Falcon Holdings, LLC is an operator of approximately 100 Church's Chicken restaurants.

Frisch's / Big Boy

Frisch's Restaurants, Inc. is a regional company that operates full service family-style restaurants under the name of Frisch's Big Boy. The Company also operates grill buffet-style restaurants under the name Golden Corral under certain licensing agreements. All restaurants operated by the Company are located in various regions of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Plans are in place to expand Golden Corral operations into certain parts of Michigan and West Virginia.

Hoss's Steak & Sea House

Hoss’s Steak and Sea House is a growing chain of restaurants with its origin in Central Pennsylvania.

Jack In The Box

Jack in the Box Inc. (NYSE: JBX), based in San Diego, is a restaurant company that operates and franchises Jack in the Box® restaurants, one of the nation’s largest hamburger chains, with more than 2,030 restaurants in 17 states. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, the company also operates and franchises Qdoba Mexican Grill®, an emerging leader in fast-casual dining, with more than 220 restaurants in 35 states. Based in San Diego, Jack in the Box Inc. has nearly 45,000 employees.

Java City

Java City was founded in 1985 by three passionate settlers in a small brick building on the corner of 18th & Capitol in Sacramento. These original Javanistas wanted to bring a world of specialty coffees to what was then a barren sea of homogeneous mass-marketed coffee-like substances. The founders built this City on a simple principle: find the best coffees on earth and slowly roast them to perfection.

Java City owns and operates thirteen cafés across California.

K-Bo, Inc. (Bojangle's)

Incorporated in 1988, K-BO Inc. is a licensee of Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc. The first of K-BO's restaurants opened in November of 1988 in Statesville, North Carolina. Since that time the company has expanded to fourteen locations in Alexander, Burke, Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg counties, and the city of Hickory. The newest location opened in Cornelius, NC in August 2004.

KnowFat

KnowFat! Lifestyle Grille is more than just a place to get a great-tasting, nutritious meal that fits into a healthy lifestyle. Each KnowFat! combines a quick-serve restaurant with a convenience-style retail store that carries the best health-oriented consumable products available for purchase. KnowFat! offers: 1) A menu where every item has healthy underpinnings and tastes great 2) Nutritional information on the menu and on customer receipts 3) A broad menu that addresses a variety of specific diet plans and lifestyles 4) Cutting edge nutritional products that demonstrate a commitment to knowledge and science 5) Take-out and catering products as a way to eat healthy all day, not just while dining in the restaurant.

LDF Companies (Wendy's)

LDF Companies operates 43 Wendy's restaurants in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. LDF is headquartered in Wichita Kansas.

Panda Express

Panda Restaurant Group is the nation's leader in quality Chinese foodservice and one of the largest family-owned businesses in the nation, operating several successful restaurant concepts including Panda Express, Panda Inn and Hibachi-San.

Panera Bread

Panera Bread Company owns and franchises bakery-cafes under the Panera Bread® and Saint Louis Bread Co.® names. The Company is a leader in the emerging specialty bread/cafe category due to its unique bread combined with a quick, casual dining experience.

Robek's

Robeks is one of the nation's fastest growing healthy lifestyle franchises deeply committed to offering its customers more nutritious alternatives to traditional fast food. Robeks' menu features a variety of premium blended-to-order fruit smoothies, fresh fruit and vegetable juices, wholesome sandwiches and soups, garden salads, high-protein baked goods, healthy snacks and a proprietary line of premium nutritional supplements. Robeks stores provide customers with an energetic experience featuring vibrant-colored walls, upbeat music and enthusiastic associates to create an environment that appeals to people of all ages. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Manhattan Beach, CA, the company is expanding in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States.

Ryan's Restaurant Group

Ryan's Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: RYAN) headquartered in Greer, South Carolina is a leading restaurant company operating more than 340 Ryan's ® Grill, Buffet & Bakery and Fire Mountain ® restaurants in 23 states primarily in the Southern and Midwestern United States. The company employs approximately 23,000 team members and serves more than 110 million customers annually.

Since 1978, the Company has offered high quality food at affordable prices with exceptional friendly service in a family-oriented atmosphere to millions of hungry patrons who always leave well satisfied. From our delicious grill selections, our vast array of hot vegetables, our fresh salad ingredients to our sumptuous dessert bar, only the highest quality products are presented to our customers.

Scottish Food Systems / KFC

Scottish Food Systems / KFC

Shoney's

Shoney's Restaurants, LLC, is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. and owns, operates and franchises approximately 320 restaurants in 21 states. The company has been feeding America's families since 1947, offering full table service for breakfast, lunch and dinner featuring Shoney's classic buffets and cook-to-order entrees.

Starbucks Coffee

Starbucks Corporation is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with more than 10,000 retail locations in North America , Latin America , Europe , the Middle East and the Pacific Rim . The Company is committed to offering the highest quality coffee and the Starbucks Experience while conducting its business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for communities in which it does business. In addition to its retail operations, the Company produces and sells bottled Frappuccino® coffee drinks, Starbucks DoubleShot® espresso drink, and a line of superpremium ice creams through its joint venture partnerships. The Company's brand portfolio provides a wide variety of consumer products--innovative superpremium Tazo® teas and exceptional compact discs from Starbucks Hear Music� enhance the Starbucks Experience through best-of-class products. The Seattle 's Best Coffee® and Torrefazione Italia® coffee brands enable Starbucks to appeal to a broader consumer base by offering an alternative variety of coffee flavor profiles.

Steak n Shake

Steak 'n Shake is a full service, casual dining restaurant serving a core menu of its famous Steakburgers, thin 'n crispy French Fries and old fashioned hand-dipped Milk Shakes. Menu variety includes sandwiches, such as the Turkey Melt and the Grilled Chicken Breast, as well as Chili, home style soups, fresh salads, a variety of desserts and breakfast. All of the food is prepared to the guest's order and served by friendly, well-trained associates. Steak 'n Shake restaurants feature full-service dining areas, counter service and drive-thru windows. Restaurants are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.