A Introduction To Theme Restaurants 2w1kt

Chapter :1

A INTRODUCTION TO THEME RESTAURANTS

Theme restaurants are restaurants in which the concept of the restaurant takes priority over everything else, influencing the architecture, food, music, and overall 'feel' of the restaurant. The food usually takes a backseat to the presentation of the theme, and these restaurants attract customers solely on the premise of the theme itself. Popular chain restaurants such as Applebee's or Bennigans - despite having a distinct and consistent style throughout their locations - would not be considered to be theme restaurants by most people. Theme restaurants have an instantly recognizable, easily articulable concept that can be summed up in a few words at most, an almost cartoonish exaggeration of an idea. The popular Rainforest Cafe restaurants have the obvious theme of a "Tropical Rainforest". Medieval Times has its theme of "Medieval Europe". The Jekyll & Hyde Club evokes an atmosphere of Jack the Ripper and Victorian horror novels. Some theme restaurants use controversial images, contexts, or ideas. The most notorious of them is Hitler's Cross, in Mumbai India. One strange but famous theme restaurant in Berlin, is called "das Klo" (German for "The toilet") it depicts the insides of a toilet. Many people consider the Rainforest Cafe to be the prototypical theme restaurant, and the restaurant which kicked off the theme restaurant fad. Theme restaurants may be experiencing a decline in popularity, given the closings of several Planet Hollywood, Jekyll & Hyde Club, and Wilderness Cafe locations in recent years. Theme restaurants often depend on tourist business, since the theme soon becomes stale to locals, and the focus is not necessarily placed on good food and service. Certain tourist destinations such as the Mall of America or Orlando, Florida have better chances of ing theme restaurants. Theme restaurants are generally common at theme parks, such as Universal Studios. The father of the theme restaurant, credited as being the pioneer of the genre, was David Tallichet, a Texan who served as a bomber pilot in World War II and who died on October 29, 2007 at age 84. Beginning in the 1960s, he decorated restaurants as Polynesian islands, New England fishing villages and French farmhouses (barricaded with sandbags to protect against German bombardment). His Proud Bird restaurant at the Los Angeles International Airport had headphones at each table so that diners could listen to control-tower chatter. Almost all of his restaurants were in Southern California. His company, Specialty Restaurants, grew to revenues of $185 million at its peak in 1980. You can read more about him in this Wall Street Journal

Chapter :2

TYPES OF THEME RESTAURANTS: Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dixie Stampede is a dinner theater with three locations in the Southern United States. Dixie Stampede is owned by Dolly Parton and The Dollywood Company, a branch of the Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation.

Locations The first location opened in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in 1988, just outside the entrance to Parton's theme park, Dollywood. Today, it is a dinner and show with locations in three Southern cities: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (1988), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (1992), and Branson, Missouri (1995). A fourth location, in Orlando, Florida, opened in June 2003 and ceased operations in January 2008 when the property was sold to the outlet mall across the parking lot so they could expand. Dolly said that they were looking for a new location in Orlando to rebuild. [1] .

The show One hour prior to the main dinner and show, guests are seated in a "Carriage Room" where they view an opening act. Each location has a different opening act; in Tennessee, there is a live band, Mountain Ruckus, playing bluegrass and country music. Some of Mountain Ruckus have included Gary "Biscuit" Davis who was Dolly Parton's band leader and produced her cd's The Grass Is Blue and Live and Well, and Youtube Celebrity Kata Hay. At show time, all guests are escorted into the arena, where the Dixie Stampede dinner and show begins. Although the attraction bears her name, Parton doesn't appear in person. The performance is essentially a modern-day Wild West revue, pitting sections of the audience against each other in a good-natured way as "the South" and "the North" battle to win various horse riding competitions. It is also said that if you are close enough to the stage, dirt will fly into your plate from the horses running around in the arena.

Each location features a show with 32 horses, dozens of cast , ostrich races, and a live buffalo. At the Tennessee show there are also live pig races. Seating varies by location. There are Quarter Horse and Palomino breeds plus Appaloosa and Paint breeds. After the show, everyone exits through a souvenir shop. Outside the complex is the Horse Walk, where visitors can meet the animal stars of the show, as well as their keepers.

Food The meal, which is made fresh daily and baked on property, consists of a whole rotisserie chicken, hickory smoked barbecue pork loin, creamy vegetable soup, homemade biscuit, corn on the cob, herb-basted baked potato, an iced apple turnover, and unlimited Pepsi, tea, or coffee. The vegetarian option is identical, except that the meats are replaced with 'Country Garden Vegetable Pasta' The meal is served without dining utensils.

Chapter :3

Ed Debevic's

Ed Debevic's Ed Debevic's is a small chain of classic 1950s and 1960s theme restaurants started by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. It is currently operated by Bravo Enterprises. Its first restaurant opened in Phoenix, Arizona in 1984, but has since closed. The Beverly Hills, CA location also closed because it wasn't making enough profit, and another location in New York City was unsuccessful as well. The last non-Illinois restaurant, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, closed in 2001. Eventually "Ed's" was reduced to just one restaurant, in Chicago, Illinois. More recently, a second location opened in Lombard, Illinois. Ed Debevic's was the basis for the restaurant Mike worked at in the 1986 television series, "Jack and Mike." The show takes place in Chicago and the waitstaff can be seen dancing on the counter in the opening credits.

Chapter :4

Johnny Rockets Johnny Rockets

Type

Private

Industry

1950s style restaurants

Founded

Los Angeles, CA, U.S. (June 6, 1986)

Founder(s)

Ronn Teitelbaum

Headquarters

Lake Forest, CA, U.S.

Area served

Worldwide

Owner(s)

RedZone Capital

Website

www.johnnyrockets.com

Johnny Rockets is an American restaurant franchise whose concept is to create a timeless American restaurant atmosphere. Its restaurants' decor reflect the drive-in restaurant style prevalent in the 1950s, which include jukeboxes, chrome accents and red vinyl seats, and guests are greeted by friendly servers. The staff are also known to sing and dance every half-hour, twirl straws and make smiley faces of ketchup. All hamburgers are grilled-to-order. Menu items include hamburgers, shakes, sandwiches, malts and breakfast.

History Johnny Rockets was founded on June 6, 1986, by Ronn Teitelbaum of Los Angeles, California. The first restaurant was established in the Melrose District of Los Angeles.

In 1999 Royal Caribbean International featured a Johnny Rockets location onboard its Voyager of the Seas, making it the first ever "mobile" Johnny Rockets restaurant. From that point forward the cruise line has offered a Johnny Rockets location onboard all of their new cruise ships. The world's largest Johnny Rockets franchise opened on April 25, 2006, inside the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California. The restaurant has more than 5,900 square feet (550 m2), with indoor seating for over 260 guests with an additional outdoor patio seating area. It is located in The Boardwalk section of the amusement park. In February 2007, it was announced that Red Zone Capital, the private equity firm of Daniel Snyder, was set to acquire the chain. Snyder announced plans to expand the chain both within the United States and worldwide, including the launch of smaller outlets known as Johnny Rockets Express. A sit-down type restaurant which is owned by Six Flags, Trappers Adirondack Grill, was converted into a Johnny Rockets in June 2008. In April 2009, the new Yankee Stadium opened with many Johnny Rockets stands throughout the stadium. These stands serve traditional Johnny Rockets hamburgers, french fries, shakes, and malts among other menu items. FedEx Field, home of Snyder's Washington Redskins, also features Johnny Rockets concession areas.

Chapter :5

Hard Rock Cafe Hard Rock Cafe

Type

Private

Industry

casual dining restaurants, casinos, hotels

Founded

June 14, 1971 in London, England (UK)

Headquarters Orlando, Florida, U.S. Hamish Dodds, President/CEO Key people

Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, Founders Florida Seminole tribe, owners

Website

www.hardrock.com

Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. In 1979, the cafe began covering its walls with rock 'n' roll memorabilia, a tradition which expanded to others in the chain. In 2006, Hard Rock was sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Currently, there are 140 Hard Rock locations in over 40 countries.

History Restaurants

Hard Rock Cafe located on Broadway in the heart of Times Square. The first Hard Rock Cafe (HRC) opened its doors to the public on June 14, 1971, in London, England. It was founded by Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett. Hard Rock initially had an eclectic decor but it later started to display memorabilia. Hard Rock has amassed one of the largest collections of rock and roll memorabilia. The chain began to expand worldwide in 1978 with locations in Toronto, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, New York, Dallas, Boston, Washington, DC, Orlando, Paris and Berlin. In 1990, The Rank Group, Plc., a London-based leisure company, acquired Mecca and continued expansion of the concept in their geographic territory. Rank went on to purchase Hard Rock America from Peter Morton as well as Hard Rock Canada from Nick Bitove. After the completion of these acquisitions, Rank gained worldwide control of the brand. In March 2007, the Seminole Tribe of Florida acquired Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. and other related entities from Rank Group for $965 million. In recent times the business has come in for some criticism because of its practice of paying its waiting staff less than half the official minimum wage in the UK, with the business allocating tips to staff to bring their salaries within the law. Most customers, it was argued, do not realise that they are subsidizing a low wage when they give the tip. On May 28, 2009, Hard Rock International announced plans to open a 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2), 500 seat HRC on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles featuring a live concert area and a limited edition retail shop. Hard Rock International closed its first location in the Los Angeles area located in the Beverly Center which had opened in 1982 during their worldwide expansion. An opening date has not been announced.

Expansion into other businesses

Casinos and hotels

The Hard Rock Hotel (building with golden top) in Chicago, Illinois In 1995 Peter Morton spent $80 million to open the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. A subsequent $100 million expansion nearly doubled the hotel's capacity in 1999. In May 2006, Morton sold the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas to Morgans Hotel Group for $770 million, including the rights to the Hard Rock Hotel brand west of the Mississippi, including Texas, California, Australia and Vancouver, British Columbia. Edward Scheetz, a Morgans' executive, described the 11-story, 650-room Hard Rock Hotel as a trophy property that will never be replicated in Las Vegas because of land values. The pool at the Hard Rock occupies land valued at $50 million. On September 1, 2007 the Hard Rock Las Vegas announced sponsorship of the 2004 Indianapolis 500 champion, Buddy Rice for the final two races of the 2007 IndyCar Series Season. On February 8, 2007, Anna Nicole Smith died of a drug overdose in a room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Today, the Indian Tribe of Florida owns and operates all units except the Las Vegas facility. In 2004, Hard Rock International and Sol Melia Hotels and Resorts launched Lifestar Hoteles Espana SL, a t venture that manages Europe's first Hard Rock Hotel in Madrid. The other t venture hotels are in Chicago, New York and San Diego (the

San Diego property includes Hard Rock condominiums). Hard Rock also operates hotels and resorts in Orlando, Florida, a t venture with Loews Hotels; Bali, Indonesia; and Pattaya, Thailand, a t ventures with Ong Beng Seng/Hotel Properties Limited. Hard Rock International, continues to expand internationally (including hotels, casinos, resorts, and condominiums) through several t ventures (Becker Ventures, Ong Beng Seng/Hotel Properties Limited and Loews Hotels) including hotels in Chicago, Bali, Orlando, San Diego and planned openings in Atlanta and Penang - as well as hotelcasinos in: Hollywood, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Biloxi, Mississippi; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Hard Rock Park - Theme Park Hard Rock Cafe International announced in March 2006 that they licensed the "Hard Rock" name to HRP Myrtle Beach Operations, LLC, to design, build, and own a $400 million 150-acre (0.61 km2) theme park called Hard Rock Park. Hard Rock Park opened on April 15, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, closed into bankruptcy September 24, 2008, and converted to Chapter 7 liquidation January 2, 2009. The park was expected to draw an estimated 30,000 visitors per day, promised to create more than 3,000 jobs, and was billed as the largest single investment in South Carolina history. It planned to feature a large concert arena and six zones with more than 40 attractions.. But HRP Myrtle Beach Operations, LLC, filed for Chapter 11 on September 25, 2008. The company had at the time hoped to re-open in 2009 after restructuring. On January 2, 2009 after failing to attract a buyer with a minimum US$35 million bid for over 2 months, Hard Rock Park asked a Delaware Bankruptcy Court to convert their filing to Chapter 7 (triggering immediate liquidation of assets to pay off creditors) and closing the park. New owners renamed the park Freestyle Music Park and it to reopened by Memorial Day, 2009, but without the Hard Rock name, though a music theme remains.

Seminole Tribe of Florida takeover On December 7, 2006, Rank sold its Hard Rock business to the Seminole Tribe of Florida for US$965 million. Included in the deal were 124 Hard Rock Cafes, four Hard Rock Hotels, two Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hotels, two Hard Rock Live! concert venues, and stakes in three unbranded hotels. Rank kept the Hard Rock Casino in London, but has changed its name to G Casino Piccadilly. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas was also not part of the deal, as it was sold by Peter Morton to Morgans Hotel Group in May 2006. The final takeover was mired in controversy, as another of the chain's suitors, Power Plant Entertainment, charged that Merrill Lynch sabotaged its acquisition efforts. On January 8, 2007, Rank Group shareholders approved the Seminoles' US$965 million offer. The Tribe expects to have finalized the deal by March 5, 2007. The Hollywood Casino/Hotel location gained some notoriety on February 8, 2007 when Anna Nicole Smith died there.

On June 22, 2008, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida began "Vegas-style" table gambling instead of using just type-II slots. The Seminole Tribe paid the State of Florida US$100 million as part of a 25-year pact. On July 5, 2008, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the governor's agreement was unconstitutional but table games continue to operate because the Federal Department of the Interior approved the now illegal pact with the state.

Music memorabilia Hard Rock is known for its collection of rock and roll memorabilia. The cafes solicit donations of music memorabilia but also purchase a number of items at auctions around the world, including autographed guitars, outfits from world tours and rare photographs are often to be found mounted on cafe walls. The collection began in 1979 with the gift of an un-signed guitar (a Red Fender Lead II) from Eric Clapton, who was a regular at the first restaurant in London. This prompted Pete Townshend of The Who to give one of his guitars, also un-signed with the note "Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete." Hard Rock's archive includes over 70,000 items and it opened a Hard Rock museum named "The Vault" in Orlando, Florida in January 2003 but subsequently closed it in September 2004. The London Vault remains open, located near the original cafe. In 2005 Deep Purple launched their new album Rapture of the Deep in Hard Rock Cafe London. This show was released as a DVD.

List of Hard Rock Cafe Location

EST

London

June 14 , 1971

Toronto

June 23 , 1978

Los Angeles

October 24 , 1982

Tokyo Roppongi

July 4 , 1983

San Francisco

September 10 , 1984

Stockholm

April 16 , 1985

Chicago

June 17 , 1986

Houston

November 6 , 1986

Cancun

June 9 , 1987

Honolulu

July 17 , 1987

New Orleans

December 11 , 1987

La Jolla

December 11 , 1988

Sydney

April 1 , 1989

Toronto Skydome

June 6 , 1989

Boston Copley Square

June 12 , 1989

Acapulco

December 8 , 1989

Washington DC

January 1 , 1990

Singapore

February 6 , 1990

Orlando

June 7 , 1990

Maui

July 23 , 1990

Las Vegas at Hard Rock Hotel September 7 , 1990

Montreal

September 20 , 1990

Puerto Vallarta

December 30 , 1990

Bangkok

April 22 , 1991

Kuala Lumpur

November 23 , 1991

Paris

November 24 , 1991

Osaka

January 17 , 1992

Tijuana

April 26 , 1992

Berlin

May 18 , 1992

Jakarta

October 2 , 1992

Atlanta

November 9 , 1992

St. Thomas

December 17 , 1992

San Juan

March 5 , 1993

Miami

September 21, 1993

Mexico City

September 23 , 1993

Bali

October 3 , 1993

Beijing

May 14 , 1994

Nashville

June 21 , 1994

Cozumel

October 22 , 1994

Kowloon Hong Kong

November 13 , 1994

Madrid

November 25 , 1994

San Antonio

January 12 , 1995

Myrtle Beach

July 10 , 1995

Copenhagen

July 18 , 1995

Buenos Aires

October 15 , 1995

Melbourne

October 21 , 1995

Phoenix

October 21 , 1995

Cabo San Lucas

December 10 , 1995

Makati

December 15 , 1995

Hollywood CA

January 12 , 1996

Surfers Paradise

March 22 , 1996

Ottawa

June 26 , 1996

Niagara Falls USA

July 10 , 1996

Shanghai

August 2 , 1996

Key West

September 27 , 1996

Atlantic City

November 15 , 1996

Seoul

December 2 , 1996

Niagara Falls, Ontario

December 9 , 1996

Beirut

December 19 , 1996

Nagoya

July 1 , 1997

Baltimore

July 4 , 1997

Yokohama

July 18 , 1997

Sacramento

August 13 , 1997

Barcelona

November 10 , 1997

Memphis, Tennessee

November 16 , 1997

Dubai

December 13 , 1997

Philadelphia

January 15 , 1998

Edinburgh

March 28 , 1998

Guam

May 10 , 1998

Lake Tahoe

June 30 , 1998

Cleveland

July 2 , 1998

Kona

July 21 , 1998

Sharm el Sheikh

July 24 , 1998

San Diego

July 28 , 1998

Saipan

August 18 , 1998

St Louis

August 24 , 1998

Denver

November 5 , 1998

Guadalajara

November 7 , 1998

Rome

December 10 , 1998

Amsterdam

March 20 , 1999

Indianapolis

April 13 , 1999

Gatlinburg

September 5 , 1999

Fukuoka

April 26 , 2000

Cayman Islands

April 28 , 2000

Rio de Janeiro

June 27 , 2000

Manchester

September 12 , 2000

Malta

November 25 , 2000

Osaka Universal

March 22 , 2001

Cairo

May 4 , 2001

Bogota

October 1 , 2001

Pattaya

October 15 , 2001

Birmingham

November 19 , 2001

Austin

February 27 , 2002

Munich

February 25 , 2002

Tokyo Uyeno Eki

March 25 , 2002

Nottingham

June 5 , 2002

Pittsburgh

June 24 , 2002

Minneapolis

September 12 , 2002

Leeds

December 2 , 2002

Cologne

April 28 , 2003

Lisbon

June 12 , 2003

Moscow

September 17 , 2003

Cardiff

October 13 , 2003

Nassau

October 21 , 2003

Detroit

November 10, 2003

Catania

February 24 , 2004

Hollywood FL

May 11, 2004

Louisville

May 31 , 2004

Dublin

June 29 , 2004

Destin

July 2 , 2004

Foxwoods

August 20 , 2004

Panama

September 8 , 2004

Athens

September 14 , 2004

Hurghada

November 12 , 2004

Kuwait

November 20 , 2004

Gothenburg

December 10 , 2004

Caracas

May 12 , 2005

New York

August 12 , 2005 , April 12 , 1984

Oslo

December 12 , 2005

Belo Horizonte

December 23 , 2005

Santo Domingo

July 14 , 2006

Mumbai

September 12 , 2006

Narita

September 15 , 2006

Ocho Rios

November 22 , 2006

Margarita

November 27 , 2006

Warsaw

February 8 , 2007

Biloxi

July 1 , 2007

Boston

July 2 , 2007

Punta Cana

July 2 , 2007

Fiji

December 4 , 2007

Cartagena

December 13 , 2007

Bengaluru

December 29 , 2007

Bucharest

January 20 , 2008

Singapore Airport

January 9 , 2008

Mallorca

November 29 , 2008

Aruba

December 12 , 2008

Pune

January 11 , 2009

Yankee Stadium

March 30 , 2009

Prague

April 3 , 2009

Venice

April 9 , 2009

New Delhi

June 4 , 2009

Dallas

July 15 , 2009

Las Vegas

September 5 , 2009

Penang

September 15 , 2009

Hyderabad

September 21 , 2009

Marbella

October 30 , 2009

Phuket

November 29 , 2009

Ho Chi Minh City

December 17 , 2009

Costa Maya

February 2010

Krakow

2010

Los Angeles Hollywood BVLD 2010

Seattle

February 10, 2010

Gallery Hard Rock Cafe locations

HardRockBuenosAires.jp g Hard Rock Cafe at Bangalore (2008)

Hard Rock Cafe at A Hard Rock Universal Studios Florida Cafe sign in Chicago (1990-98)

Hard Rock Cafe in Warsaw, Poland

Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore

Hard Rock Cafe Window Hard Rock in Buenos Aires Cafe in Caracas

Hard Rock Sacramento at Hard Rock Cafe, Hong Kong (closed since Nov. the K street 24, 2008)[14] mall

Hard Rock Hard Rock Cafe, Walk of Fame Cafe near Hard Rock Universal Studios (Mick Jagger) Campus Cafe, Las Hollywood, Los Angeles at Niagara Martius Park in Vegas, Nevada Falls, Ontario Detroit

Hard Rock Cafe Myrtle Hard Rock Cafe, Bogotá, Beach South Carolina Colombia

Hard Rock Hard Rock Cafe, Cafe Orlando Amsterdam Florida

French Quarter Hard Rock Cafe, New Orleans

Hard Rock Cafe, Orlando (World's Largest Hard Rock Cafe)

Shop Hard Rock Cafe in Hurgada

Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai. Hard Rock Cafe, Oslo

Hard Rock Cafe, Washington, D.C.

Hard Rock Hard Rock Cafe neon sign, Cafe, Prague, Prague, The The Czech Czech Republic, in Hard Rock Republic the night Cafe, Honolulu

Hard Rock Hard Rock Cafe, Atlanta Cafe, Prague, The Czech Republic

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Jekyll & Hyde Club

Facade The Jekyll & Hyde Club and the Jekyll & Hyde Pub are two theme restaurants owned by Eerie World Entertainment in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. It derives its name and theme from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 Victorian gothic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The restaurant's theme is spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes, with detailed decorations, set pieces, and actors who roam the restaurant and entertain patrons. Characters include Ezra Von Gloome, the dashingly handsome curator, Mr. Wrott, the club's wacky paleontologist, Mr. Goole, in charge of the club's procurement, the butler Hives, and the charmingly ditzy Theodora Brayne, the club librarian. These characters

are the guest's link to all of the details of the club's history, and perform hip inductions table side. In addition to the live characters, there are a number of audio-animatronic props, sounds, and special effects which contribute to the overall atmosphere of the club. The animatronic creatures visit from the "spirit world" to wisecrack and wish happy birthdays. The larger, main location, The Jekyll & Hyde Club, on the Avenue of the Americas is in Midtown near 57th street. The smaller location known as the Jekyll & Hyde Pub was the first to be opened and is located in Greenwich Village, on 7th Avenue near Bleecker Street. Other locations had been opened in Chicago and Grapevine, Texas (near Dallas), but closed due to poor business and the expensive operating costs of the restaurant. Eerie World Entertainment opened several pilot restaurants in order to decide which theme restaurant concept to further develop. In addition to the downtown Jekyll and Hyde, they opened The Slaughtered Lamb Pub with a werewolf theme which is still operational. as well as Jack the Ripper (at 228 W. 4th St., between 7th Av. S. & 10th St) which is now closed.

In popular culture In the 12th episode of the first season of reality show The Girls Next Door, Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends are shown having dinner at one of the Jekyll & Hyde restaurants. There is an entertainer at the Jekyll and Hyde club named Dr. Mange, who is known to dance to popular music such as Love Shack during the dinner service on Wednesdays.

Medieval Times This article is about Medieval Times dinner theater chain. For the historical time period, see Middle Ages.

Part of the performance. Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament is a chain of dinner theaters which offer dinner featuring staged medieval-style games, sword-fighting, and jousting followed by a tournament. Each of the nine North American locations (Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto, New York City, Baltimore, Myrtle Beach, Atlanta, and Orlando) are housed in an 11th-century-style castle. The company is privately held and headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Food The restaurant has a fixed menu of tomato bisque, garlic bread and a cup of tea, roasted chicken, spare rib, herb-roasted baked potato, pastry, coffee, and Pepsi, in addition to a cash bar. Guests eat with their hands. There is also a vegetarian menu that includes rice, hummus, pita chips, a Portobello mushroom cap, and skewered vegetables.

Bankruptcy In April 1997 Medieval Times owners sought bankruptcy protection after losing a court battle to the Internal Revenue Service that required the Buena Park, California location to pay $7.5 million dollars and the Kissimmee, Florida location to pay $2.5 million in back taxes. According to the IRS, Medieval Times improperly deducted royalties, loan interest and management fees in the 1987 and 1989 tax years. When asked why the company was

filing for bankruptcy the company’s bankruptcy lawyer, Alan Friedman, said, "one of the primary reasons for filing was to prevent the IRS from beginning to seize any assets." .

Canevaworld A show under the same name and having the same structure exists as a part of Canevaworld resort in Lazise, Italy[2]. The website of the show does not indicate in its credits any reference to the original Medieval Times show in the USA and Canada.

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Planet Hollywood Planet Hollywood

Type

Privately-held company

Industry

Theme restaurant

Founded

October 22, 1991 in New York (USA)

Headquarters Orlando, Florida Robert Earl, Founder Key people

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Baron Montague of Oxford, financial backers

Website

planethollywood.com

Planet Hollywood at night, Downtown Disney, Florida, USA.

Planet Hollywood Niagara Falls, Ontario

Planet Hollywood, a theme restaurant inspired by the popular portrayal of Hollywood, was launched in New York on October 22, 1991, with the backing of Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

History Planet Hollywood was the brainchild of Robert Earl, former president of Hard Rock Cafe. Planet Hollywoods were modeled after the Hard Rock formula. Earl recruited many former Hard Rock veterans to open new PH stores.. Movie star "owners" received stock options at rock bottom price in exchange for their endorsement, thus they could be billed as legal owners. Planet Hollywood was founded, marketed and branded by Keith Barish, who also served as its Chairman. He left Planet Hollywood in 1998. In 1994 Planet Hollywood founded the Official All Star Café sports-themed restaurant chain. In April 1996, Planet Hollywood went public. The company's share price reached all time high of $32 on the first day of trading and went down to less than $1 by 1999. The company has gone bankrupt twice.. Nearly 100 stores have closed worldwide, leaving fewer than 20 in the world currently... In 1997 Planet Hollywood entered a t partnership with AMC Theaters to develop Planet Movies by AMC. In 1998 Planet Hollywood entered the ice cream business when it launched Cool Planet. The business was scrapped later that year. Schwarzenegger severed his financial ties with the business in early 2000. Schwarzenegger said the company had not had the success he had hoped for, claiming he wanted to focus his attention on "new US global business ventures" and his movie career.

Resort Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas had its grand opening the weekend of November 16, 2007, replacing the Aladdin Hotel & Casino. A deal has been signed for the hotel to be operated by Starwood Hotel and Resorts Worldwide. In addition, Planet Hollywood has partnered with Westgate Resorts on the construction of the new The Planet Hollywood Towers by Westgate, the world's first vacation ownership resort directly connected to a major resort hotel and casino complex. The groundbreaking took place on January 19, 2006. The 52-story luxury vacation ownership and condominium tower will be located on the corner of Harmon Avenue and Audrie Lane and will include over 1,200 units ranging in size from one to four bedrooms. The top four

stories will comprise 28 luxury condominiums ranging in size from 4,000 to 10,000 square feet (370 to 930 m2). Prices on the top floors start at US$4 million. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2009.

Locations United States

Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney in Orlando      

Guam Honolulu, Hawaii Las Vegas Strip (The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace) Myrtle Beach, South Carolina New York, New York - Times Square Lake Buena Vista, Florida (Orlando) - Downtown Disney, Walt Disney World Resort

Orlando, Florida - Paramount City (Florida) - Paramount Orlando Resort (Also International           

Acapulco Bali Cancún (Mexico) Disney Village in Disneyland Paris Dubai Jakarta Kuala Lumpur London (relocated to Haymarket in June 2009) Niagara Falls (Canada) Riyadh Tokyo Disney Resort

According to the official site, new branches in India and Kuwait will be opening soon

Closed locations

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Anaheim, California (Cool Planet location) Aspen, Colorado Atlanta, Georgia Atlantic City, New Jersey Baltimore, Maryland Beverly Hills, California Boston, Massachusetts (Planned, but never opened) Chicago, Illinois (Now Gino's East) Columbus, Ohio (Closed a Planet Hollywood restaurant, Official All Star Café, and Planet Movies by AMC megaplex) Costa Mesa, California Dallas, Texas Fort Lauderdale, Florida Gurnee Mills in Gurnee, Illinois Houston, Texas Indianapolis, Indiana Irvine, California (Cool Planet location) Key West, Florida Lake Tahoe Los Angeles, California Mall of America - Bloomington, Minnesota Maui Memphis, Tennessee (Planned, but never opened) Miami, Florida - Coconut Grove Miami, Florida - Ocean Drive Nashville, Tennessee New Orleans, Louisiana New York, New York (West 57th Street, closed due to relocation)

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Norfolk, Virginia (Cool Planet location) Phoenix, Arizona Reno, Nevada San Antonio, Texas San Diego, California San Francisco, California Santa Monica, California (Cool Planet location) Seattle, Washington South Coast Plaza (Costa Mesa, California) St. Louis, Missouri Washington, D.C. Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois

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Amman Amsterdam Athens Auckland (Queen Street, Auckland) Bangkok Barcelona Belfast Beirut Berlin Bombay Buenos Aires Cabo San Lucas Cannes Cape Town (terrorist bombing in August 1998) Caracas (Planned, but never opened) Cozumel Dublin Edmonton Frankfurt (Planned, but never opened) Gatwick Gold Coast Hamburg Helsinki Hong Kong Johannesburg London (was in Coventry Street, now relocated to The Haymarket) Madrid Manila (Planned, but never opened) Melbourne Montreal Moscow Munich Nassau Oberhausen Paris Prague Puerto Vallarta Rio de Janeiro (Planned, but never opened) Rome San Juan

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São Paulo Seoul Sharm El Sheikh Singapore Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Beach Cafe Toronto Vancouver Zürich

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Guam Las Vegas Strip Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Disneyland Paris Disney's Hollywood Studios Downtown Disney (Orlando) New York - Times Square Cadishead Manchester

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Rainforest Cafe Rainforest Cafe is a themed restaurant chain owned by Landry's Restaurants, Inc. of Houston, Texas. It was founded by entrepreneur Steven Schussler. The first location opened in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1994.

Description The restaurants are decorated to depict some features of a generic rainforest, including plant growth, mist, waterfalls, animatronic robots of animals and insects. Large marine aquariums are common in most restaurants. Automated water sprinklers and synchronized lights set to specific patterns are also featured. A simulated thunderstorm occurs every thirty minutes, utilizing simulated rain as well as flashing lights and highpowered subwoofers for lightning and thunder.There is a tree usually located in the gift shops named Tracy that talks and gives information on rainforests. Also, the restaurants are partitioned into several rooms by means of rain curtains that fall into basins running along the tops of partition walls and booths. The Rainforest Cafe has food ranging from seafood, beef,and chicken to pastas and pizzas. As well as its famous, award winning crab dip, there is also the tradition only carried out by Rainforest Cafe of yelling, "Volcano" when somebody orders a "volcano" sundae. The staff of Rainforest Cafe are named in accordance to the "Safari" theme. Servers are called Safari Guides, Hosts/Hostesses are Tour Guides, Retail Sales Associates are Pathfinders, Bartenders are Navigators, Bussers are Safari Assistants and even the kitchen staff are appropriately named Trailblazers. The animatronic figures are manufactured by UCFab International, LLC of Apopka, Florida, USA. The star ceilings are designed and manufactured by Fiber Optic Systems Inc, located in Whitehouse Station, NJ. Rainforest Cafe restaurants also have a Retail Village, where rainforest themed merchandise is sold.

Gallery

A typical sign outside of a Rainforest Cafe.

The inside of the Rainforest Cafe at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Rainforest cafe at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Rainforest Cafe sign outside Opry Mills Mall.

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ESPN Zone ESPN Zone is a small chain of very large sports-themed restaurants that include arcades, TV studios, and radio studios. The first ESPN Zone opened in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 11, 1998 in the Power Plant on the Inner Harbor. It transformed what was once a massive brick building that housed coal-fired generators for the city trolley system into what is now an all-encoming sports dining and entertainment mecca. It proved to be a cornerstone in the development of the city’s waterfront, and more specifically the Inner Harbor.

ESPN Zone in Chinatown Washington D.C.

ESPN Zone in Baltimore There are ESPN Zones located in:       

Anaheim, California; in Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort Baltimore, on the Inner Harbor Chicago, at the corner of Ohio and Wabash Las Vegas, at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino Los Angeles, at L.A. Live - this is a franchise location New York City, at Times Square Washington, D.C., located Downtown in the Thurman Arnold Building

There is also a restaurant called ESPN Club at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida not related to ESPN Zone restaurants. The chain of restaurants is owned and operated by Disney Regional Entertainment, which in turn, is owned by The Walt Disney Company, which also owns ESPN.

Events Ultimate Couch Potato ESPN Zone regularly hosts events featuring athletes from local professional teams. Their most notable event is the Ultimate Couch Potato Competition, a competitive sitting competition. Held on January 1st, four competitors try to out-sit each other while watching non-stop sports. Bathroom breaks are permitted only every eight hours and there is a five minute stretch-break every hour; they may eat and drink as much as they want. In 2009, competitions were held in New York, Chicago and Baltimore. The 2009 Ultimate Couch Potato in Baltimore, Maryland unofficially broke the Guinness World Record by sitting and watching consecutive sports for an unprecedented 70 hours, and 45 seconds. The 2009 event received a lot of attention nationally as well as from international outlets like the popular Australian television show Sunrise. The 2010 Ultimate Couch Potato in Chicago, Illinois broke an ESPN Zone record and also unofficially broke the Guinness World Record by watching 72 hours of non-stop sports. He is the only Ultimate Couch Potato competitor to win three years in a row. Unrelated to the competition, Suresh Joachim set the official world record with 69 hours and 48 minutes in 2005.

Ultimate Couch Potato Winners:

Chicago

New York

Baltimore

2003 Brett Farrenkopf: 14 hours 30 minutes

2004 Patrick Arnold: 18 hours 30 minutes

2005 Chris Connelly: 20 hours

2006 Jason Pisarik: 32 hours

2007 Jason Pisarik: 39 hours 55 minutes

2008 Jeff Miller: 40 hours 2008 Stan Friedman: 29 30 minutes hours

2009 Jeff Miller: 39 hours 2009 Stan Friedman: 19 2 minutes hours 48 minutes

2010 Jeff Miller: 72 hours

2010 Jorge Cruz: 48 hours 15 minutes 1 second

2009 Jessica Mosley: 70 hours 45 seconds

2010 Jessica Mosley: 32 hours 59 minutes 14 seconds

Q&A's with Athletes and Sports Figures Local pro teams often participate in question and answer sessions at ESPN Zone locations allowing fans to an opportunity to get personal, candid answers to all their sports questions, while also getting better acquainted with the players. Junior Broadcaster The Junior Broadcaster event is a competition where entrants ages 12 and under sit behind a microphone on-set at ESPN Zone and take a stab at the play-

by-play call for pre-determined game plays from a local team. A of judges provides and narrows the field. The winner receives the opportunity to help the broadcasting booth at an game. Star-Spangled Sing-Off At this event, singers of all ages compete for the opportunity to sing the national anthem at a local pro sports game. In the opening round of the competition, contestants sing 30 seconds of any song other than the Star-Spangled Banner. Finalists advance to the second round and each sing the national anthem in its entirety. The contest is judged by a of experts and fans at the event. Watch Parties ESPN Zone often hosts watch parties to cheer on local teams when they play against big rivals.

Former locations Since its inception, ESPN Zone has closed two locations. A restaurant in Denver, Colorado closed in June 2009, and another in Atlanta, Georgia closed in October 2009. The Atlanta location had opened in 2000, while the Denver location opened in 2001. In both cases, Disney Regional Entertainment cited the "economic environment" as the reason for the closures.

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Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant in Long Beach, California.

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant in Times Square, New York City. The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant and Market is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. As of January 2009, 31 Bubba Gump's restaurants operate worldwide. Twenty-two of these locations are in the United States, two are located in Mexico, and seven are in Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

The first Bubba Gump's restaurant opened in 1996 in Monterey, California by Viacom Consumer Products. Viacom is owner of Paramount Pictures (the distributor of Forrest Gump), and also owns the Rusty Pelican restaurant chain. The Bubba Gump restaurant is named after the movie's main characters Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue and Forrest Gump. Bubba suggested the shrimping business and ultimately Forrest pursued the idea aftHistory In 1995 Viacom Consumer Products, the licensing division for Paramount Pictures, approached Rusty Pelican’s CEO, Scott Barnet, and partner, Gordon Miles, with the idea

of a chain of family-style shrimp restaurants carrying out the ―Forrest Gump‖ theme. Soon after, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants, Inc. was formed as a new restaurant chain in a t enterprise with Paramount Pictures. San Clemente, California-based Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants, Inc. and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Intl. LLC operate or franchise the like-named restaurant as well as "Capi's Italian Kitchen", "Mai Tai Bar", and the sole-remaining Rusty Pelican restaurant in Newport Beach, California. Rusty Pelican locations in other cities were sold to Landry Seafood Restaurants and are no longer related.

Menu The menu consists mostly of shrimp dishes, but also other seafood, as well as Southern and Cajun cuisine, due to the main character Forrest coming from Alabama

Safe House Restaurant The Safe House Restaurant is a restaurant opened in 1966 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has been used as a backdrop in movies shot in Milwaukee such as a bar scene in Major League, and has been featured on the History Channel as one of the best secret locations to visit in the United States. The restaurant has been in featured articles in Time, the Chicago Tribune, People Magazine, and the London Daily Express for its food, spy drinks and espionage-theme. According to Rachel Ray in her $40 a Day series, "you would have to be a CIA agent to figure this place out in one trip".

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List of restaurant chains .

International Name

known for

Arby's

roast beef sandwiches

Burger King

burgers

Carl's Jr. burgers Charley's sub Grilled sandwiches Subs

Chili's

steaks,ribs

Chipotle Mexican burritos Grill Dome

coffee

Domino's pizza Pizza

Parent Company Wendy's/Ar by's Group, Inc. Burger King Corporation CKE Restaurants

First store locations related founded location worldwide restaurants Boardman, 1964 Ohio, Miami, 1954 Florida Anaheim, 1956 California

Gosh Columbus, 1986 Enterprises Ohio

Brinker Dallas, International Texas

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Dôme Coffees Australia Pty Ltd Domino's Pizza, Inc.

3,688

Wendy's

30,944

Hungry Jacks

1,170

Hardee's

359 Romano's Macaroni Grill, On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina, Maggiano's Little Italy

1975

Denver, CO

1993

900

Ypsilanti, Michigan

1960

8,500

Gloria Jean's Coffees Hard Rock Cafe

coffee

theme dining

Hardee's burgers Jack Astors

casual dining

Jack in the Box

burgers

Seminole Tribe of Florida

London, England

1979

750

1971

140

Greenville, CKE North 1960 Restaurants Carolina

San Diego, 1941 CA

Nathan's Famous, Inc.

1991

KFC

Yum Brands

South Salt 1952 Lake, Utah

The Keg steak Little Caesars

pizza

Ilitch Holdings, Inc.

Vancouver, 1971 Canada Garden City, 1959 Michigan

Marrybro casual dining wn McDonal burgers d's MOS Burger

burgers

Nando's

chicken

Olive Garden

Italian

Carl's Jr.

24

Kenny Rogers chicken Roasters

chicken

1,917

1981 San McDonald's Bernardino 1940 Corporation , California Tokyo, 1972 Japan Rosettenvil le, South 1987 Africa Darden Orlando, Restaurants Florida Inc

1982

2,100

13,266

Qdoba Mexican Grill Nathan's Famous, Miami Subs, Arthur Treacher's A&W, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut

2,000 250 31,000

668

Bahama Breeze, The Capital Grille, Red

Lobster, Seasons 52, LongHorn Steakhouse Outback Australian Steakhous themed e Papa John's pizza Pizza Panera bakery,sandwi Bread ches

Pizza Hut pizza

Planet Hollywoo d Pollo Campero Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits Quiznos Sub

Sarku Japan Secret Recipe

1988

3100

Kirkwood, 1993 MO

1,272

Yum Brands

Wichita, Kansas

1958

New York, 1991 New York

chicken

Guatemala 1971

chicken sub sandwiches

seafood

Tempura

900

Papa John's Louisville, 1984 International Kentucky

theme dining

Rainfores theme t Cafe restaurant

Red Lobster

OSI Tampa, Restaurant Florida Partners, Inc

AFC Arabi, Enterprises Louisiana Quiznos LLC Landry's Restaurants, Inc

1972

Denver, 1978 Colorado Bloomingt on, 1994 Minnesota

Darden Lakeland, Restaurants Florida Inc

13,000

1800

5,000 35

1968

680

Boston, Massachus 1987 etts

200

Malaysia

100

1997

A&W, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut

Bahama Breeze, The Capital Grille, Olive Garden, Seasons 52, LongHorn Steakhouse

Shakey's pizza Pizza Sizzler

steaks

Sonic Drive In

burgers

Hunt Sacramento 1954 International , California Culver Sizzler City, 1958 Restaurants California

Seattle, Washingto 1971 n

Starbucks coffee

Starbucks

Steak n Shake

The Steak 'n Shake Normal, IL 1934 Company

burgers, ice cream

Swensen's ice cream

Subway

sub sandwiches

Taco Bell 5800 Locations T.G.I. casual dining Friday's Telepizza pizza Tony Roma's

steaks

Wendy's burgers Yogen Früz

frozen yogurt

Yoshinoy beef bowls a

400 270

Pat and Oscar's

16,120

Seattle's Best Coffee

502 Yogen Früz, I Can't Believe It's Yogurt (ICBY), Golden Swirl, Bresler's ice cream

International San Franchise Francisco, 1948 Corp California

Doctor's Associates, Inc

Carlson New York, Companies New York Madrid, Spain Miami, Florida Wendy's/Ar Columbus, by's Group, Ohio Inc. International Markham, Franchise Canada Corp Tokyo, Japan

1965

30,643

1965

800

1988

1,150

1972

260

1969

6,700

1986

1,086

1899

1,300

Sunset Boulevard

Arby's

Argentina 

California Burrito Co.

Australia Many of the chains listed in International, plus:     

Eagle Boys Pizza Gloria Jean's Hungry Jack's Oporto Red Rooster

Bahrain Many of the chains listed in International, plus: 

Costa Coffee

Brazil  

Bob's Habib's

Canada Many of the chains listed in International, plus:          

Baton Rouge Boston Pizza Cactus Club Cafe Coffee Time East Side Mario's Earls Harvey's Kelsey's La Belle Province Mary Brown's

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Mike's Milestone's Restaurants Montana's Cookhouse New York Fries Nickels Grill & Bar Panago Pickle Barrel Pizza Delight Pizza Pizza Richtree Market Scores Shoeless Joe's St-Hubert Swiss Chalet Tim Hortons White Spot Yogen Früz

Costa Rica 

Rostipollos

Egypt Many of the chains listed in International, plus:  

Cook Door Mo'men

Finland 

Hesburger

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Buffalo Grill Quick (restaurant chain)

Many of the chains listed in International, plus: 

Wienerwald (restaurant) -

India Many of the chains listed in International, plus:    

Café Coffee Day Pizza Corner Saravana Bhavan Nirula's

Ireland   

Abrakebabra Eddie Rockets Supermac's

Israel 

Burgeranch

Italy 

Spizzico

Japan Many of the chains listed in International, plus:    

Anna Miller's Hanaya Yohei Ringer Hut Saizeriya

Korea, South Many of the chains listed in International, plus:  

Lotteria Pizza Etang

Malaysia Many of the chains listed in International, plus:

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KLG Pelita Nasi Kandar The Chicken Rice Shop

Mexico Many of the chains listed in International, plus:        

Benedetti's Pizza Carlos'n Charlie's El Pollo Loco Peter Piper Pizza Sanborns Cafe Potzollcalli Señor Frog’s Sirloin Stockade

Philippines 

Jollibee

South Africa   

Steers Spur Chicken Licken

Spain Many of the chains listed in International, plus: 

Rodilla

Sweden 

MAX

Taiwan Many of the chains listed in International, plus: 

Ten Ren Tea

Turkey Many of the chains listed in International, plus: 

Mado

United Kingdom Many of the chains listed in International, plus:               

Ask Restaurants Beefeater Bella Italia Brewers Fayre Café Rouge EasyPizza Frankie & Benny's Hungry Horse Little Chef Loch Fyne Mazzio's Pizza Pizza Express Prezzo Harry Ramsden's Wagamama

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SUCCESS REASONS FOR THEME RESTAURANTS:

Fusion cuisine

This is a combination of Japanese and Vietnamese cuisine: smoked salmon wrapped in rice paper, with avocado, cucumber, and crab stick Fusion cuisine combines elements of various culinary traditions while not fitting specifically into any. The term generally refers to the innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s.

Categories and types Fusion cuisine is general term for the combination of various forms of cookery, and the concept can take several forms. One approach is regional fusion that combines the cuisine of a region or sub-region into a single eating experience. Of this sort, Asian fusion restaurants have become popular in many parts of the United States, often featuring Indian, East Asian, and South-East Asian dishes alongside one another and offering dishes that are inspired combinations of such cuisines. In Australia, due to the increasing influx of migrants, fusion cuisine is being reinvented and is becoming increasingly the norm at numerous cafes and restaurants; with Sydney now being considered as one of the best cities in the world with regard to the quality and creativity of Asian-fusion restaurants. Another incarnation of fusion cuisine is a more eclectic approach, featuring original dishes using varieties of ingredients from various cuisines and regions and combining

them. Such a restaurant might feature a wide variety of dishes inspired by a combination of various regional cuisines with new ideas. A third approach uses foods with a form based on one cuisine, but prepared using ingredients and flavors inherent to another cuisine or cuisines. For instance, pizza made with cheddar and pepper jack cheese, salsa, refried beans and other common taco ingredients is often marketed as "Taco Pizza" or a similar concept and is a fusion of Italian-American (pizza) and Mexican-American cuisines. Similar approaches have been used for fusion-sushi, such as rolling maki with different types of rice and ingredients, e.g. curry and basmati rice, cheese and salsa sauce with Spanish rice, or spiced ground lamb and capers rolled with Greek-style rice and grape leaves (resembling inside-out dolmades). Since fusion cuisine is a general term, it is legitimately applied to either sort of restaurant. While many diners feature dishes from Greek, Italian, and sometimes Asian cuisines side-by-side, these restaurants are generally not considered fusion as they fail to combine any elements of the cooking styles and also have no over-arching fusion or eclectic theme.

Background This type of restaurant's success depends on a number of factors. Among these are:   

Clientele's (or prospective clientele's) cultural diversity Clientele's travel patterns and experiences. Clientele's culinary sophistication and openness to new eating experiences.

Wolfgang Puck is considered as one of the pioneers of fusion cuisine.However, his restaurant "Chinois" was named after the term attributed to Richard Wing, who in the 1960s combined French and Chinese cooking at the former Imperial Dynasty restaurant in Hanford, California.[2] A sampling from the menu of an American-European-Japanese restaurant in California might include the following items.     

Sake cocktails Salad with crisp nori topping, and a miso-cilantro vinaigrette dressing Rock shrimp dumplings Eel, lettuce and tomato sushi handroll Poached tofu

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LIST OF SUCCES THEAM RESTAURANTS

Cheeseburger in Paradise (restaurant) Cheeseburger in Paradise Type

Island-Themed Restaurant

Industry

Restaurant

Headquarters Number of locations

Tampa, Florida, United States of America 34

Area served

17 States

Website

http://www.cheeseburgerinparadise.com

Cheeseburger In Paradise.

Inside of Cheeseburger In Paradise.

Cheeseburger in Paradise is a casual dining restaurant chain in the United States. The first restaurant was opened on August 22, 2002, in Indianapolis, Indiana; as of 2010, the restaurant had 34 locations in 17 states. It is a theme restaurant named for the song "Cheeseburger in Paradise" by American pop music singer Jimmy Buffett. The chain was a partnership of Buffett's company, the Palm Beach, Florida-based Margaritaville Holdings LLC, and OSI Restaurant Partners, with Buffett licensing the name and Outback operating the franchising of restaurants. Margaritaville Holdings has sold its part of the company. Jimmy Buffett was only a Royalty Partner receiving 2% of profits until selling the rights to the song "Cheeseburger in Paradise" then he received 4% of all profits. As of September 2009, "Cheeseburger in Paradise" is now a part of Paradise Restaurant Group, LLC.

Menu Most of the menu items have an Island theme as well, such as the Beach Burger, St. Barts Citrus Chicken, and Kingston Pork Chops. The menu also includes appetizers, salads, soups, sandwiches, wraps, island specialties, desserts, and a whole section on cheeseburgers. In addition to the regular menu, they offer a kid's menu, beverage menu, and gluten-free menu.

Locations States that are home to Cheeseburger in Paradise:                

Delaware (1) – Newark Florida (2) – (Fort Myers)and Miramar Beach Georgia (1) – (Dunwoody, GA, a northern suburb of Atlanta, GA) Illinois (3)-Des Plaines, IL, Downers Grove, IL, and Algonquin, IL Indiana (5) -Evansville, IN, Indianapolis, IN, Bloomington, IN, Terre Haute, and Fishers, IN Kansas (1) - (Village West district in Kansas City, KS) Maryland (2)- Pasadena, MD and California, MD Michigan (1)- Sterling Heights, MI Nebraska (1) – (Omaha) New Jersey (3)- Secaucus, NJ, Iselin, NJ, and Wayne, NJ New York (1) – (Middletown, NY) Ohio (4)- Canton, OH, Cincinnati, OH, Columbus, OH, and Hilliard, OH Pennsylvania (2) (Langhorne, PA)and (Exton, PA) South Carolina (1) – (Myrtle Beach, SC) Virginia (5)- Fredericksburg, VA, Woodbridge, VA, Newport News, VA, Virginia Beach, VA, and Charlottesville, VA Wisconsin (1) (Middleton, WI, a western suburb of Madison, WI)

Lahaina, Hawaii

Cheeseburger in Paradise, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA A restaurant chain named Cheeseburger Restaurants based in Portola, California, has one of their restaurants located in oceanfront Lahaina, Hawaii also named "Cheeseburger in Paradise". This chain, which began there in 1989, has no relation to Jimmy Buffett's business. Buffett sued the owners in 1997. After a four-year legal battle, a settlement was reached that allowed Laren Gartner and Edna Bayliff to keep the moniker at their existing restaurants in Lahaina and Waikiki, but prevented them from using the name on any additional locations.

Amusement park

MGM Dizzee World , one of the many amusement parks in Chennai

Bobbejaanland, Belgium

Europa-Park,

Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. Disneyland is a theme park where rides, shows and attractions are organized and decorated around certain themes instead of being separately designed and decorated, like at an amusement park. Amusement park and theme park are for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people. An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, usually providing attractions meant to cater to children, teenagers, and adults. A theme park is differentiated from an amusement park by its various 'lands' (sections) devoted to telling a particular story. These lands are characterized by the idea that the immersive environment they create contains architecture, landscaping, stores, rides, and even food that a specific theme. Visual intrusion from other 'lands', or from outside the park, are considered undesirable. Non-theme amusement park rides will usually have little in of theming or additional design elements. Also, a single themed attraction by itself does not qualify an amusement park as a theme park. It takes a multiplicity of elements in a common area to define a 'land', and numerous lands to constitute a theme park. The original theme park, and architype of the designation is Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Amusement parks evolved in Europe from fairs and pleasure gardens which were created for people’s recreation. The oldest amusement park of the world (opened 1583) is Bakken, at Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. In the United States, world's fairs and expositions were another influence on development of the amusement park industry.[1] Most amusement parks have a fixed location, as compared to traveling funfairs and carnivals. These temporary types of amusement parks, are usually present for a few days or weeks per year, such as funfairs in the United Kingdom, and carnivals (temporarily set up in a vacant lot or parking lots) and fairs (temporarily operated in a fair ground) in the United States. The temporary nature of these fairs helps to convey the feeling that people are in a different place or time.

History of amusement parks Fairs and pleasure gardens Periodic fairs, such as the Bartholomew Fair which began in England in 1133, are a parent for the modern amusement park. Beginning in the Elizabethan period the fair had evolved into a center of amusement with entertainment, food, games, and carnival-like freak-show attractions. The seasonal celebration was a natural place for development of amusement attractions. Oktoberfest is not only a beer festival but also provided amusement park features beginning in 1810, when the first event was held in Munich, . In the United States, the county and state fairs also played a part in the history of amusement parks. These were annual events that were usually held for a short time, a week or two, to celebrate a good harvest. These fairs featured livestock exhibits, baking and cooking competitions.

Vauxhall Gardens, c. 1751. Amusement parks also grew out of the pleasure gardens that became especially popular at the beginning of the Industrial revolution as an area where one could escape from the grim urban environment. The oldest intact still-surviving amusement park in the world (opened 1583) is Bakken ("The Hill") at Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most well known of the parks in London, was Vauxhall Gardens founded in 1661 and closed in 1859. Another long-standing park is Prater in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1766. This park was conceived as a place where the common person could enjoy a respite in a pastoral setting and participate in the musical culture of the city. Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen is another example of a European park, dating from 1843, which still exists. These parks consisted of booths, entertainment, fireworks displays and some ―rides‖ such as introduction to the modern railroad. The parks grew to accommodate the expectations of their customers -- who were increasingly familiar with the mechanical wonders of industrialization. Rides became a required part of the pleasure garden and by 1896 there were 65 such pleasure parks in London.

First Ferris wheel, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 Another type of fair is the exposition or world’s fair. World's fairs began in 1851 with the construction of the landmark Crystal Palace in London, England. The purpose of the exposition was to celebrate the industrial achievement of the nations of the world (of which Britain just so happened to be the leader). America cities and business saw the world’s fair as a way of demonstrating economic and industrial success.People particularly point to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Illinois as an early precursor to the modern amusement park. This fair was an enclosed site that merged entertainment, engineering and education to entertain the masses. It set out to bedazzle the visitors, and successfully did so with a blaze of lights from the ―White City.‖ To make sure that the fair was a financial success, the planners included a dedicated amusement concessions area called the Midway Plaisance. Rides from this fair captured imagination of the visitors and of amusement parks around the world, such as the first Ferris wheel, which was found in many other amusement areas, such as the Prater by 1896. Also, the experience of the enclosed ideal city with wonder, rides, culture and progress (electricity), was based on the creation of an illusory place. Certainly the precursor of the amusement park experience to come. The ―midway‖ introduced at the Columbian Exposition would become a standard part of most amusement parks, fairs, carnivals and circuses. The midway contained not only the rides, but other concessions and entertainments such as shooting galleries, penny arcades, games of chance and shows.

Trolley parks and Coney Island Main article: Trolley park In the final decade of the 19th century, the electric trolley lines were developed in most of the larger American cities. Companies that established the trolley lines were directly responsible for establishing amusement parks -- trolley parks -- as destinations of these lines. Trolley parks like Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, or Reading's Carsonia Park were initially popular natural leisure spots before local streetcar companies purchased the sites, expanding them from picnic groves to include regular entertainments, mechanical amusements, dance halls, sports fields, boats rides, restaurants and other resort facilities.

Various sources report the existence of between 1500 and 2000 amusement parks in the United States by 1919. Some of these parks were developed in resort locations, such as bathing resorts at the seaside in New Jersey and New York. Others were found along rivers and lakes that provided bathing and water sports such as Riverside Park in Massachusetts, which was founded along the Connecticut River in the 1840s, and Lake Compounce in Connecticut, first established as a bathing beach in 1846. Another such location was Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, where a horse-drawn streetcar line brought pleasure seekers to the beach beginning in 1829. In 1875, a million engers rode the Coney Island Railroad, and in 1876 two million reached Coney Island. Hotels and amusements were built to accommodate both the upper-classes and the working-class. The first carousel was installed in the 1870s, the first roller coaster, the "Switchback Railway", in 1884. It wasn't till 1895 that the first permanent amusement park in North America opened: Sea Lion Park at Coney Island in Brooklyn. This park was one of the first to charge ission to get into the park in addition to sell tickets for rides within the park. In 1897, Sea Lion Park was ed by Steeplechase Park, the first of three major amusement parks that would open in the Coney Island area. George Tilyou designed the park to provide thrills and sweep away the restraints of the Victorian crowds. The combination of the nearby population center of New York City and the ease of access to the area made Coney Island the embodiment of the American amusement park. Often, it is Steeplechase Park that comes to mind when one generically thinks of the heyday of Coney Island, but there was also Luna Park (opened in 1903), and Dreamland (opened in 1904). Coney Island was a huge success and by year 1910 attendance on a Sunday could reach a million people. Fueled by the efforts of Frederick Ingersoll, other "Luna Parks" (starting with ones in Pittsburgh and Cleveland in 1905) were quickly erected worldwide and opened to rave reviews. Fire was a constant threat in those days, as much of the construction within the amusement parks of the era was wooden. In 1911, Dreamland was the first Coney Island amusement park to completely burn down; in 1944, Luna Park also burned to the ground. Most of Ingersoll's Luna Parks were similarly destroyed (usually by arson) before his death in 1927.

The "Golden Age" of amusement parks During the Gilded Age, many Americans began working fewer hours and had more disposable income. With new-found money and time to spend on leisure activities, Americans sought new venues for entertainment. Amusement parks, set up outside major cities and in rural areas, emerged to meet this new economic opportunity. These parks reflected the mechanization and efficiency of industrialization while serving as source of fantasy and escape from real life. By the early 1900s, hundreds of amusement parks were operating in the United States and Canada. Trolley parks (established at the end of the

trolley line by enterprising streetcar companies) stood outside many cities. Parks like Ponce de Leon in Atlanta, GA and Idora Park near Youngstown, OH took engers to traditionally popular picnic grounds, which by the late 1890s also often included rides like the Giant Swing, Carousel, and Shoot-the-Chutes. These amusement parks were often based on nationally-known parks or world's fairs: they had names like Coney Island, White City, Luna Park, or Dreamland. The American Gilded Age was, in fact, amusement parks' ―golden age‖ that reigned until the late 1920s. The Golden Age of amusement parks also included the advent of the Kiddie Park. Founded in 1925, the original Kiddie Park is located in San Antonio, Texas and is still in operation today. The Kiddie Parks became popular all over America after World War II. [5]

This era saw the development of the new innovations in roller coasters that encouraged extreme drops and speeds to thrill the riders. By the end of the First World War, people seemed to want an even more exciting entertainment, a need met by the roller coasters. Although the development of the automobile provided people with more options for satisfying their entertainment needs, the amusement parks after the war continued to be successful, while urban amusement parks saw declining attendance. The 1920s is more properly known as the “Golden Age” of roller coasters, being the decade of frenetic Depression and post-World War II decline

Derelict amusement park in Tanzania, Africa The Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II during the 1940s saw the decline of the amusement park industry. War saw the affluent urban population move to the suburbs, television became a source of entertainment, and families went to amusement parks less often. By the 1950s, factors such as urban decay, crime, and even desegregation in the ghettos led to changing patterns in how people chose to spend their free time. Many of the older, traditional amusement parks closed or burned to the ground. Many would be taken out by the wrecking ball to make way for suburban living and development. In 1964, Steeplechase Park, once the king of all amusement parks, closed down for good. The

traditional amusement parks which survived, for example, Kennywood, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and Cedar Point, in Sandusky, Ohio, did so in spite of the odds.

The modern amusement park First parks devoted to a particular theme are precursors for the modern amusement park. A Blackgang Chine amusement park, established in 1843 by Victorian entrepreneur Alexander Dabell, on the Isle of Wight, UK can be considered the oldest existing theme park in the world. The first amusement park on Coney Island, Sea Lion Park was built around a nautical theme. Modern amusement parks now run differently than those of years past. Amusement parks are usually owned by a large corporate conglomerate which allows capital investment unknown by the traditional family-owned parks. Starting with Disneyland in the 1950s, the park experience became part of a larger package, reflected in a television show, movies, lunch boxes, action figures and finally park rides and costumed characters that make up the "theme." These parks offer a world with no violence or social problems. The thrills of the theme parks are often obscured from the outside by high fences or barriers re-enforcing the feeling of escape, they are kept clean and new thrill rides are frequently added to keep people coming back. In addition to this experience, the theme park is either based on a central theme or, divided into several distinctly themed areas, lands or "spaces." Large resorts, such as Walt Disney World in Florida (United States), actually house several different theme parks within their confines. Today, central Florida and most notably Orlando boasts more theme parks than any other worldwide destination. The northeastern USA region, most notably Pennsylvania, is now a hotbed of traditional surviving amusement parks. In its truest traditional form is Conneaut Lake Park in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. Others include Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Knoebels Groves in Elysburg, Pennsylvania; Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania; Idlewild Park in Ligonier, Pennsylvania; Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania; Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania; and DelGrosso’s Amusement Park in Tipton, Pennsylvania.

Family-owned theme parks

Narrow gauge mining train going through Calico Ghost Town.

Some theme parks did evolve from more traditional amusement park enterprises, such as Knott's Berry Farm. In the 1920s, Walter Knott and his family sold berries from a roadside stand, which grew to include a restaurant serving fried chicken dinners. Within a few years, lines outside the restaurant were often several hours long. To entertain the waiting crowds, Walter Knott built a Ghost Town in 1940, using buildings relocated from real old west towns such as the Calico, California ghost town and Prescott, Arizona. In 1968, the Knott family fenced the farm, charged ission for the first time, and Knott's Berry Farm officially became an amusement park. Because of its long history, Knott's Berry Farm currently claims to be "America's First Theme Park." Knott's Berry Farm is now owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut may be the true oldest continuously operating amusement park in the United States, open since 1846. Santa Claus Town, which opened in Santa Claus, Indiana in 1935 and included Santa's Candy Castle and other Santa Claus-themed attractions, is considered the first themed attraction in the United States: a pre-cursor to the modern day theme park. Santa Claus Land (renamed Holiday World in 1984) opened in 1946 in Santa Claus, Indiana and many people will argue that it was the first true Theme Park despite Knott's history. In the 1950’s the Herschend family took over operation of the tourist attraction, Marvel Cave near Branson, Missouri. Over the next decade they modernized the cave, which led to large numbers of people waiting to take the tour. The Herschend family opened a recreation of the old mining town that once existed atop Marvel Cave. The small village eventually became the theme park, Silver Dollar City. The park is still owned and operated by the Herschends and the family has several other parks including Dollywood, Celebration City and Wild Adventures. Other theme parks include: Children's Fairyland opened in 1950 in Oakland, California. Another variation of the theme park were the animal theme parks that reintroduced the concept of Sea Lion Park such as Marineland of the Pacific which opened in 1954 which paved the way for SeaWorld parks which eventually added thrill rides.

Disneyland and the corporate-owned park Walt Disney, however, is often credited with having originated the concept of the themed amusement park, although he was obviously influenced by Knotts Berry Farm owned by Walter Knott (at the time owner of Calico Ghost town) who brought buildings from Calico to increase business at his berry stand located in nearby Buena Park, CA, as well as Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen and De Efteling, opened in 1952 in the Netherlands, to which Walt Disney was a regular visitor. Disney took these influences and melded them with the popular Disney animated characters and his unique vision, and "Disneyland" was born. Disneyland officially opened in Anaheim, California in 1955 and changed the amusement industry forever. Key to the design process of Disney's new park was the replacement of architects with art directors from the film industry. The years in which Disneyland opened were a sort of stopgap period for the amusement park industry,as many of the older, traditional amusement parks had already closed and many were close to closing their doors. Cedar Point was set to be torn down in the 1950s when local businesspeople were intrigued by the success of Disneyland and saved it from

destruction. Other parks were not as lucky, with Steeplechase Park at Coney Island closing in 1964; Riverview Park, Chicago, Illinois, closed in 1967. Some traditional parks were able to borrow a page from Disneyland and use television to its advantage, such as Kennywood, a park started in 1898 and continuing to operate to the present which used television advertising and featured television personalities at the park. The first regional theme park, as well as the first Six Flags park, Six Flags over Texas was officially opened in 1961 in Arlington, Texas near Dallas.The first Six Flags theme park was the vision of Angus Wynne, Jr. and helped create the modern, competitive theme park industry. By 1968, the second Six Flags park, Six Flags Over Georgia, opened, and in 1971, Six Flags Over Mid-America (now Six Flags St. Louis) opened near St. Louis, Missouri. Also in 1971 was the opening of the Walt Disney World resort complex in Florida, which is still the largest theme park and resort complex in the world with the Magic Kingdom (1971), Epcot (1982), Disney's Hollywood Studios (1989) and Disney's Animal Kingdom (1998). During the 1970s, the theme park industry started to mature as a combination of revitalized traditional amusement parks and new ventures funded by larger corporations emerged. Magic Mountain (now a Six Flags park) opened in Valencia, California. Regional parks such as Cedar Point and Kings Island, popular amusement parks in Ohio, moved towards the more modern theme park-concept as well as rotating new roller coasters and modern thrill rides. Also during the mid-1970s, Marriott Corporation built two identical theme parks named "Great America" in northern California and Illinois. The former is now California's Great America and is owned by Cedar Fair, L.P., which now also owns Kings Island and Cedar Point; and the latter is now Six Flags Great America. Many theme parks were hit badly by the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and a number of planned theme parks were scrapped during this time. Most of today’s major amusement parks were built in the 1970s. Perhaps the most indirect evolution of an attraction into a full-fledged theme park is that of Universal Studios Hollywood. Originally just a backlot tram ride tour of the actual studios in Hollywood, California, the train ride that started in 1964 slowly evolved into a larger attraction with a western stunt show in 1967, "The Parting of the Red Sea" in 1973, a look at props from the movie Jaws in 1975, and the "Conan the Barbarian" show in 1984. By 1985, the modern era of the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park began with the "King Kong" ride and, in 1990, Universal Studios Florida in Orlando opened. Universal Studios is now the third-largest theme park company in the world, behind Disney and Merlin.

Present and future of amusement parks Since the 1980s, the amusement park industry has become larger than ever before], with everything from large, worldwide type theme parks such as Disneyworld and Universal Studios Hollywood to smaller and medium-sized theme parks such as the Six Flags parks and countless smaller ventures in many of the states of the U.S. and in countries around the world. Even simpler theme parks directly aimed at smaller children have emerged, including Legoland opened in 1999 in Carlsbad, California (the first Legoland opened in 1968 in Billund, Denmark). The only limit to future theme park ventures is one's imagination. Amusement parks in shopping malls began in the 1990s,blending traditional amusement park entertainments -- roller coasters, water parks, carousels, and live entertainment -with hotels, movie theaters, and shopping facilities. Examples of giant mall parks are West Edmonton Mall, Alberta, Canada; Pier 39, San Francisco; Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota. Amusement park owners are also awareof the need to satisfy their aging baby boomer customer base with more restaurants, landscaping, gardens and live entertainment. Kennywood has created in 1995 the "Lost Kennywood" area with classic rides that recall the possibly more tranquil times of the early twentieth century.In 2001, Disney opened the Disney's California Adventure which includes Paradise Pier, a recreation of the traditional seaside amusement park of yesteryear. Family fun parks starting as miniature golf courses have begun to grow to include batting cages, go-karts, bumper cars, bumper boats and water slides. Some of these parks have grown to include even roller coasters, and traditional amusement parks now also have these competition areas in addition to their thrill rides. The popularity of theme parks has led to the increase of theming -- "the use of an overarching theme, such as western, to create a holistic and integrated spatial organization of a consumer venue" -- in non-theme park venues. While theme restaurants, casinos, and other themed spaces lack the rides and other features of theme parks, they owe much to the legacy of the theme lands and spatial organization that became popular in theme parks. Although domestic visitors still make up around 80 percent of issions to theme and amusement parks, an aging population in the U.S. and a slowing economy in 2008 are forcing The Walt Disney Company and its competitors to seek their fortunes in emerging tourist markets such as in the Middle East and in China. The Walt Disney Company, s for around half of the total industry's revenue in the US as a result of more than 50 million adventure seekers pouring through the gates of its U.S.-based attractions each year.

ission prices and ission policies Amusement parks collect much of their revenue from ission fees paid by guests attending the park. Other revenue sources include parking fees, food and beverage sales and souvenirs. Practically all amusement parks operate using one of two ission principles:

Pay-as-you-go In this format, a guest enters the park at little or no charge. The guest must then purchase rides individually, either at the attraction's entrance or by purchasing ride tickets (or a similar exchange method, like a token). The cost of the attraction is often based on its complexity or popularity. For example, a guest might pay one ticket to ride a carousel, but would pay four tickets to ride a roller coaster. The park may allow guests to purchase unlimited issions to all attractions within the park. A wristband or is then shown at the attraction entrance to gain ission. Disneyland opened in 1955 using the pay-as-you-go format. Initially, guests paid the ride ission fees at the attractions. Within a short time, the problems of handling such large amounts of coins led to the development of a ticket system that, while now out of use, is still part of the amusement-park lexicon. In this new format, guests purchased ticket books that contained a number of tickets, labeled "A," "B" and "C." Rides and attractions using an "A-ticket" were generally simple, with "B-tickets" and "C-tickets" used for the larger, more popular rides. Later, the "D-ticket" was added, then finally the now-famous "E-ticket," which was used on the biggest and most elaborate rides, like Space Mountain. Smaller tickets could be traded up for use on larger rides (i.e., two or three A-tickets would equal a single B-ticket). Disneyland, as well as the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, abandoned this practice in 1982. The advantages of pay-as-you-go include:  

guests pay for only what they choose to experience attraction costs can be changed easily to encourage use or capitalize on popularity

The disadvantages of pay-as-you-go include:  

guests may get tired of spending money almost continuously guests may not spend as much on food or souvenirs

Pay-one-price An amusement park using the pay-one-price format will charge guests a single, large ission fee. The guest is then entitled to use almost all of the attractions in the park as often as they wish during their visit. The park might have some attractions that are not included in the ission charge; these are called "up-charge attractions" and can include bungee jumping or go-kart tracks or games of skill. However, the majority of the park's attractions are included in the ission cost. The ―pay-one-price‖ ticket was first used by George Tilyou at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island in 1897. The entrance fee was 25 cents for entrance to the 15-acre (61,000 m2) park and visitors could enjoy all of the attractions as much as they wanted. When Angus Wynne, founder of Six Flags Over Texas, first visited Disneyland in 1959, he noted that park's pay-as-you-go format as a reason to make his park pay-one-price. He felt that a family would be more likely to visit his park if they knew, up front, how much it would cost to attend. The advantages of pay-one-price include:   

guests can more easily budget their visit guests may be more likely to experience an attraction they've already paid for lower costs for the park operators, since ticket-takers are not needed at each attractions

The disadvantages of pay-one-price include:  

guests will often be paying for attractions that they do not ride or visit guests who are simply coming just to be with their families will have to pay anyway

Today's modern theme parks typically charge a single ission fee for ission and unlimited use of attractions, rides, and shows, where as most modern amusement parks offer free ission yet charge separate fees per attraction.

Rides and attractions Mechanized thrill machines are what makes an amusement park out of a pastoral, relaxing picnic grove or retreat. Earliest rides include the carousel which was originally developed as a way of practicing and then showing-off expertise at tournament skills such as riding and spearing the ring. By the 19th century, carousels were common in parks around the world. Another such ride which shaped the future of the amusement park was the roller coaster. Beginning as a winter sport in 17th century Russia, these gravity driven railroads were the beginning of the search for even more thrilling amusement park rides. The Columbian Exposition of 1893 was a particular fertile testing ground for amusement rides. The Ferris wheel is the most recognized product of the fair. All rides are set round a theme. A park contains a mixture of attractions which can be divided into several categories.

Many thrill rides, such as the enterprise and the gravitron, include spinning people at high speed coupled with other accelerations.

Thrill rides There is a core set of thrill rides which most amusement parks have, including the enterprise, tilt-a-whirl, the gravitron, chairswing, swinging inverter ship, twister, and the top spin. However, there is constant innovation, with new variations on ways to spin and throw engers around appearing in an effort to keep attracting customers.

Roller coasters Since the late 19th century, amusement parks have featured roller coasters. Roller coasters feature steep drops, sharp curves, and inversions. Roller coasters may be the most attractive aspect of a park, but many people come for other reasons. Amusement parks generally have anywhere from two to seven coasters, depending on space and budget. As of 2009, the record for the most coasters in one park is held by Cedar Point with 17; followed by Six Flags Magic Mountain with 16, Canada's Wonderland with 15, and Kings Island with also 15.

An example of a roller coaster, one of the staples of modern amusement parks

Train rides See also: Train ride Amusement park trains have had long and varied history in American amusement parks as well as overseas. According to various websites and historians, the earliest park trains weren't really trains -- they were trolleys. The earliest park trains were mostly custom built. Some of the most common manufacturers were:          

Allan Herschfield Cagney Brothers Chance Rides (C.P. Huntington Train) Crown Metal Products Custom Locomotives Miniature Train Co. (MTC) The National Amusement Devices Co.(NAD) Ottaway Sandley Tampa Metal Products

Water rides Amusement parks with water resources generally feature a few water rides, such as the log flume, bumper boats, and rowing boats. Such rides are usually gentler and shorter than roller coasters and many are suitable for all ages. Water rides are especially popular on hot days.

Transport rides Transport rides are used to take large amounts of guests from one area in the park to another. They usually cost extra, even in parks where rides are free. They are generally popular as they offer an alternative to walking (riding on a train). Transport rides include chairlifts, monorails, and train rides.

Cuisine

Ice-cream and sweets stand at the amusement park at the Louvre, Paris. Amusement parks generate a portion of their income through the sale of food and drink to their patrons. Food is routinely sold through food booths, push carts and indoor restaurants. The offerings vary as widely as the amusement parks themselves, and range from common fast food items, like hamburgers, hot dogs, cotton candy, candy apples, donuts and local street foods up to full-service gourmet dishes. Amusement parks with exotic themes may include specialty items or delicacies related to the park's theme. Many restaurants and food stands are operated by the amusement parks themselves, while others are branches of regional or national chains.

Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver

Oliver in Union Square in New York City, 2008 James Trevor Oliver Born

27 May 1975 (age 34) Clavering, Essex, England

Cooking style

Fresh and Organic

Education

Westminster Catering College

Spouse

Juliette Norton

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James Trevor "Jamie" Oliver, MBE (born 27 May 1975), sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef and media personality well known for his growing list of food-focused television shows, his more recent roles in campaigning against the use of processed foods in national schools, and his campaign to change unhealthy diets and poor cooking habits for the better across the United Kingdom. Oliver was brought up in Clavering, Essex, England, where his parents ran a pub, "The Cricketers", and used to practice in the kitchen. He was educated at Newport Free

Grammar School. He is dyslexic, and left school at 16 without any qualifications to attend Westminster Catering College. His first job was as a pastry chef at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Yard restaurant, where he first gained experience of Italian cuisine. Oliver then moved to The River Café, Fulham, as a sous chef, where he was noticed by the BBC in 1999 when his show The Naked Chef debuted and his cookbook became a number one best-seller in the UK.[3] That same year, Oliver was invited to prepare lunch for Prime Minister Tony Blair at No. 10 Downing Street. In 2000, he also became the face of UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's through an endorsement deal of $2 million per year. In 2003, he was awarded as an M.B.E., or Member of the Order of the British Empire, a British order of chivalry. Putting up his house as collateral without telling his wife, Oliver created the Fifteen Foundation in 2002. Each year, 15 young adults who have a disadvantaged background, criminal record or history of drug abuse, are trained in the restaurant business. In 2005, he initiated a campaign called "Feed me Better" in order to move British schoolchildren towards eating healthy foods and cutting junk food. As a result, the British government also pledged to address the issue. Delving into politics to push for changes in nutrition resulted in people voting him as the "Most Inspiring Political Figure of 2005," according to a Channel 4 News annual viewer poll. His emphasis on cooking healthily continued as he created "Jamie's Ministry of Food," a series where Oliver travels to inspire everyday people in Rotherham, Yorkshire to cook healthy meals. His latest in 2009 is "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution," where he travels to Huntington, West Virginia to change the way Americans eat and depend on fast food. Oliver's holding company, Sweet As Candy, has made enough profit for Jamie to have been listed on The Sunday Times list of richest Britons under 30. It was reported in October 2009 that Oliver is in the process of raising $22 million to help fund 30 of his Italian restaurants in Asia.

Family On 24 June 2000 Oliver married former model Juliette 'Jools' Norton. The couple met in 1993 and have three daughters: Poppy Honey Rosie (born 18 March 2002), Daisy Boo Pamela (born 10 April 2003), and Petal Blossom Rainbow (born 3 April 2009). Oliver announced Petal's birth via Twitter. On 4 March 2010, Oliver announced that he and Jools were expecting their fourth child, due in September 2010. They live in Clavering, Essex. Oliver is of partial Sudanese ancestry.

Charity and campaigning

Wanting to create something positive using his wealth and fame, Oliver conceived and established the Fifteen charity restaurant where he trained 15 disadvantaged young people to work in the hospitality industry. Following the success of the original restaurant in London, more Fifteens have opened around the globe: Fifteen Amsterdam opened in December 2004, Fifteen Cornwall in Newquay opened in May 2006, and Fifteen Melbourne opened in September 2006 with Australian friend and fellow chef Tobie Puttock. Oliver then began a formal campaign to ban unhealthy food in British schools and get children eating fresh, tasty, nutritious food instead. Oliver's efforts to bring radical change to the school meals system, chronicled in the series "Jamie's School Dinners", challenged the junk food culture by showing schools they could serve healthy, costefficient meals that kids enjoyed eating.[10] Jamie's efforts brought the subject of school dinners to the political forefront and changed the types of food served in schools. In June 2003 Oliver was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. He has also written columns for The Times. A great proponent of fresh organic foods, Oliver was named the most influential person in the UK hospitality industry when he topped the inaugural CatererSearch 100 in May 2005. The list placed Oliver higher than Sir Francis Mackay, the then-chairman of the contract catering giant, Com Group, which Oliver had soundly criticised in "Jamie's School Dinners". In 2006, Oliver dropped to 2nd on the list behind fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. In December 2009 Oliver was awarded the 2010 TED Prize for his campaigns to "create change on both the individual and governmental level" in order to "bring attention to the changes Englanders and now Americans need to make in their lifestyles and diet." Oliver is a patron of environmental charity Trees for Cities.

Advertising From 1998, Oliver was the public face of the Sainsbury's supermarket chain in the UK, appearing on television and radio ments and in-store promotional material. The deal earned him an estimated £1.2 million every year. By 2004, the company had made 65 ments with Oliver, but this arrangement has not been without controversy. Oliver was reported to have itted that he doesn't use supermarkets, saying ―For any chef, supermarkets are like a factory. I buy from specialist growers, organic suppliers and farmers". He was also said to have been criticised by Sainsbury's CEO Justin King, when he slammed the "junk" sold by supermarkets which ends up in the lunchboxes of millions of children. King reportedly hit back, saying: "Dictating to people — on unleashing an expletive-filled tirade — is not the way to get engagement." Oliver has also promoted a line of non-stick pans and cookware for Tefal, and has appeared in Australian television commercials for Yalumba wines, using Del Boy's catchphrase of "Lovely Jubbly".

Television shows The Naked Chef (1998–1999) was Jamie Oliver's first series. The title was a reference to the simplicity of Oliver's recipes, and has nothing to do with nudity. Oliver has frequently itted that he wasn't entirely happy with the title, which was devised by producer Patricia Llewellyn. (In the UK edit of the show, the opening titles include a clip of him telling an unseen questioner, "No way! It's not me, it's the food!") The success of the programme led to the books Return of the Naked Chef and Happy Days with the Naked Chef. 

Series Guide

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Series 1 - 6 editions - 14 April 1999 to 16 June 1999 Series 2 - 8 editions - 12 April 2000 to 31 May 2000 Series 3 - 8 editions - 16 October 2001 to 4 December 2001 Special "Christmas comes early" - 21 December 1999 Special "Christmas in New York" - 20 December 2000 Special "Christmas Party" - 19 December 2001

Pukka Tukka was launched in 2000 on channel 4 Oliver's Twist was launched 2002. Jamie's Kitchen was a five part 2002 documentary series. It followed chef Jamie Oliver as he attempted to train a group of disadvantaged youth, who would - if they completed the course - be offered jobs at Oliver's new restaurant Fifteen. This was followed by Return to Jamie's Kitchen in 2003. Jamie's Kitchen Australia was a ten part 2006 television series, similar to Jamie's kitchen, that was based in and aired in Australia. Jamie's School Dinners (2005) was a four part documentary series. Oliver took responsibility for running the kitchen meals in Kidbrooke School, Greenwich, for a year. Disgusted by the unhealthy fare being served to schoolchildren and the lack of healthy alternatives on offer, Oliver began a campaign to improve the standard of Britain’s school meals. Public awareness was raised, and, subsequent to Oliver's efforts, the UK Government pledged to spend £280m on school dinners (spread over three years). Tony Blair himself acknowledged that this was a result of Oliver's campaign. Following the success of the campaign, Oliver was named "Most Inspiring Political Figure of 2005" in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006. During the school dinners programme, Oliver's Fifteen London was visited by Bill Clinton. Clinton asked to see Oliver; however, Oliver refused, as Clinton's party had asked for other diners to be removed to make room for their larger-than-agreed-upon group. In episode 2 of Jamie's School Dinners, Clinton's party had 36 show up for a booking of 16 and many of them were on a South Beach Diet and did not want the special menu that had been prepared, even though the menu had been approved in advance.

Jamie's Great Italian Escape, a six part travelogue series, was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in October 2005. It follows Jamie as he travels around Italy in a blue VW van (plus a trailer for cooking). Jamie is about to turn 30, and this is his personal adventure to rediscover his love of cooking. Jamie's Return To School Dinners Jamie's Chef (2007) was a four part series continuing where Jamie's Kitchen left off. Five years and fifty trainees later, Oliver's most recent series aims to help the winning trainee establish their own restaurant at The Cock, a pub near Braintree in Essex. The charitable Fifteen Foundation retains ownership of the property and has provided a £125,000 loan for the winner, Aaron Craze, to refurbish the establishment. As of January 13, 2008, The Cock has closed down, and re-opened as a regular pub.[17][18] Jamie at Home (2007) featured Jamie presenting home-style recipes and gardening tips, with many ingredients coming from his substantial home garden. Jamie at Home airs on the Food Network in the United States. Due to licensing restrictions, only two recipes from each Jamie at Home episode will appear online; also, access to recipes is limited to s within the United States. Jamie's Fowl Dinners (2008) A special with Jamie backing Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall's "Hugh's Chicken Run" in trying to get the British to eat free-range chickens. Jamie's Ministry of Food (2008) was a four part series was aired from 30 September to 21 October 2008. It was based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Jamie aimed to make the town "the culinary capital of the United Kingdom" and tried to get the town's inhabitants to learn how to cook fresh food and establish healthy eating as part of daily life. The ' It On' campaign also featured in this series with the local townspeople being taught one of a selection of recipes and ing it on to family and friends. The ' It On' campaign gained a following on the social networking website Facebook which has a group and fan page with s g up to chart their progress. Oliver's programmes are shown in over 40 countries, including the USA's Food Network. Oliver's Twist and "Pukka Tukka" picked up where "The Naked Chef" left off. What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver (2008), a video game with Oliver narrating Jamie Saves Our Bacon (2009) Part of Channel 4's British Food Fight Season, a thematic sequel to Jamie's Fowl Dinners. In the special Jamie looks at the state of Pig farming in the UK and EU. It was broadcast on 29 January 2009. Jamie's American Road Trip (2009) Channel 4 Series following Jamie who rather than visit fancy restaurants and top chefs, will be meeting, and learning from, real cooks making honest food for working people at street stalls, off-road diners and down-to-earth

local restaurants. Along the way, he'll be picking up new recipes, and experiencing tastes old and new, as well as learn how other cultures adapt when they come to the USA. Jamie's Family Christmas (2009) Channel 4 Short (5 episodes) Series with Jamie cooking traditional and new Christmas dishes. More unusually this series includes of Jamies family; a family member (wife, children, sister etc) appears in a ing role with the preparation of particular recipe interspersed with more traditional Jamie alone delivery to an off-camera person. First broadcast 15 December 2009. Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution is a six-show special series to be aired on ABC in the United States starring Oliver and American Idol host, Ryan Seacrest. The premise of the mini-series will be for the two to visit some of the most unhealthy cities in the United States and try to improve its residents' eating habits.

Other television appearances Jamie Oliver has twice guest-hosted Channel 4's The Friday Night Project. He has also made two appearances in the "Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car" segment of BBC Two's Top Gear. His first appearance was notorious for his attempt to make a green salad in the back of his Volkswagen Microbus while The Stig drove it around the Top Gear test track. Oliver is the second British celebrity chef (after Robert Irvine) to appear as a challenger on Iron Chef America, taking on Iron Chef Mario Batali in 2008 in a losing battle with cobia as the theme ingredient. He is starring as one of the judges in the 2008 US series Oprah's Big Give hosted by Oprah Winfrey on ABC (America).

Live shows The Happy Days Live tour was Oliver's first live show in 2001 and included several dates in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Performing to sold-out venues, he cooked on stage and interacted with the audiences with competitions, music and special effects only usually seen in pop concerts. He took the audiences by surprise by singing and drumming to a song called Lamb Curry written by his longtime friend Leigh Haggerwood. Oliver appears at the BBC good food show each year and took to the road once more in 2006 on an Australian tour where he performed in Sydney and Melbourne. Following the entertaining format of his first live show, the 2006 Australian tour featuring special guests including mentor Gennaro Contaldo, and students from Fifteen London. Jamie also performed a new song written by Leigh Haggerwood called Fish Stew which Jamie

cooked to and also drummed along to at the end of the show. The shows were a great success and are featured in a one-off TV documentary called Jamie Oliver: Australian Diary.[30]

Controversy and criticism In 2003, Oliver was ranked number 28 in Channel 4's poll of "100 Worst Britons". The poll was inspired by the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons. The poll specified that the nominees had to be British, alive, and not currently in prison or pending trial. In 2005, Oliver was widely criticised by animal rights groups for slaughtering a fully conscious lamb on his TV show, while others praised Oliver for showing the killing uncensored. In 2005, Jamie Oliver embarked upon his school dinners campaign to improve the quality of food fed to pupils. While the campaign proved to be ultimately successful, at the time it was a highly controversial shake-up for students and parents, some of whom believed that the students should have a healthy option available, but still be given the choice as to what they want to eat. In September 2006, Rawmarsh Community School, South Yorkshire, UK, made headlines after a handful of parents revolted against Oliver's lunch plan (in which all 1,100 pupils on site were fed two portions of fruit and three vegetables every day) by delivering junk food from local shops to the pupils through the school fence. One parent dismissed Oliver's food as "disgusting rubbish" and declared, "Food is cheaper and better at the local takeaways.‖ Since his early years, his accent, which is often described as "mockney" or "fake cockney," has become infamous—particularly the use of the Hindi word "pukka" (colloquially meaning "brilliant" or "solid", originally "cooked" or "ripe").

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Something for the Weekend, ISBN 0-1410-2258-2 The Naked Chef, ISBN 0-7868-6617-9 The Return of the Naked Chef, ISBN 0-7181-4439-2 Happy Days with the Naked Chef, ISBN 0-7868-6852-X The Naked Chef Takes Off, ISBN 0-7868-6755-8 Jamie's Kitchen, ISBN 1-4013-0022-7 Jamie's Dinners, ISBN 1-4013-0194-0 Jamie's Italy, ISBN 0-7181-4770-7 Cook With Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook , ISBN 0-7181-4771-5 Jamie's Little Book of Big Treats, ISBN 0-1410-3146-8 Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life, ISBN 978-0718152437 Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours, ISBN 9780718148621

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Published in America as Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals, ISBN 978-1401323592 Jamie's Red Nose Recipes, ISBN 978-0141041780 Jamie's America, ISBN 978-0718154769