Food & Drink

Heartland Ham Company

FiltaFry

Mobile on-site service for the micro-filtration of cooking oil, the vacuum-based cleaning of deep fryers, and full fryer management to restaurants, hotel, airports — wherever food is fried.

Blue Islands Seafood

Balance For Life

24 Seven Vending

Chili's

#2 full-service restaurant chain. Owned by Brinker's International (which also owns Romano's Macaroni Grill, On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina and Maggiano's Little Italy).

Preferred franchisee criteria:  Minimum 5 years experience in casual dining or fast casual as owner/operator, minimum 5 restaurants owned.

Ben & Jerry's Homemade

Premium ice cream shops. Prefer multi-unit operators, but exceptions made for certain markets. Bought by Unilever in 2000.

Ba-Le Sandwiches & Bakery

Eat-in & take-out lunches with a Vietnamese flair. Reasonable prices, excellent taste. Founder named SBA National Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002.

Applebee's International

Largest chain of casual dining restaurants in the U.S. Includes Weight Watchers menu items. Slogan is "Eatin' Good in the Neighborhood."

Open to large developers only, who will open multiple restaurants abroad.

On March 22, 2007, company announced the closing of 24 units in coming months.

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