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The Melting Pot Corporate Office

The Melting Pot

The Melting Pot restaurant was founded by brothers Robert, Mark, and Mike Johnston in Maitland, Florida, in 1975. Originally, the menu had only 3 items but it proved to be so popular that in 1979, the brothers allowed a franchise to open in Tallahassee, Florida.

As franchises grew, so did the menu, but one thing remains the same; fondue. The company is best known for its complete meal, which features a cheese fondue, a salad, the main course and a chocolate fondue for dessert. The four courses are offered individually or as a “4 Course Experience.”

History

The interiors are done in black and dark red with dim lights for a more private type of experience. While fondue remains to be the restaurants’ major attraction, the company recently opted to include meats which are grilled right at the table.

The company currently has 117 locations, including some in Mexico, with the most recent opening in El Paso, Texas, in September 2018.

Company headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida.

Tommy John Corporate Office

Tommy John

After being laid off from his sales job in the 2008 recession, Tom Patterson decided to be/do/make something different. He remembered that many successful people today made their fortune simply by “building a better mousetrap.” Patterson thought that one of the things that annoyed him as a salesman was the “fabric gut” from his underwear. He decided to redesign men’s underwear.

He searched for the perfect fabric and had a tailor make the original 15 pairs by hand. He gave them out to friends and asked for honest feedback. Once he believed he had the perfect fabric and fit, Patterson and girlfriend/partner Erin Fujimoto moved to San Diego for manufacturing.

History

Today, the company sells their products at some of the finest retailers in the US, including Nordstrom, Saks, and Neiman Marcus. In just 5 years, revenue has surpassed the million dollar mark.

Patterson isn’t planning on stopping at men’s underwear but wants to continue to make improved products for men’s socks, robes, and pajamas. The company began producing women’s underwear and camisoles in early 2018.

By 2016, the company states that it had sold more than 2 million pairs of men’s underwear and had their products in more than 500 stores. The company also has an extensive e-commerce site.

Company headquarters are now located in New York, New York.

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LevelUp Corporate Office

LevelUp

The platform works when a client downloads the app and links it to a debit or credit card. When paying at participating locations, the user simply opens the app and scans the QR code, completing the transaction.

History

Currently, the app is used mainly for restaurants, but the company says it has as many as 50,000 businesses that use the app and more than 1 million registered users as of May of 2017. The app is popular on the East coast but hasn’t caught on yet on the West coast or mid-West regions.

The platform also offers a reward or loyalty program. This program allows users to order food or other items and simply scan their QR code, bypassing most cashiers or waiting to sign on to other platforms, such as PayPal.

As of June 2016, LevelUp is available for businesses in the Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas, San Diego, Minneapolis, Montgomery, Kansas City, Seattle and Wilmington, North Carolina areas.

In July of 2018, the company announced that they had been acquired by GrubHub for $390 million. Headquarters for the parent company, GrubHub, are located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Birds Eye Corporate Office

Birds Eye

In the early part of the 1900’s, Clarence Birdseye began conducting experiments on new ways to improve the freezing process of fish. In 1922 he formed the Birds Eye Seafood Company with his patent.

Birdseye made a new company for his fish freezing process called General Seafood Corporation. This was sold to Goldman Sachs in 1929 for $22 million.

History

General Seafood was later changed to General Foods, who created the Birdseye company, which Clarence oversaw. He continued to work for the company, researching on how to better freeze foods for the best flavor.

The company was sold several times over the years, most recently in 2010 to Pinnacle Foods.

Today, Birdseye is best known for frozen vegetables and frozen meal packages, such as frozen mixed vegetables, chicken and rice dinners, as well as frozen vegetables made to look and taste like pasta and rice. These low carb vegetable/pasta meals have become very popular in recent years, jumping on the Keto diet craze.

In July of 2018, Conagra purchased Pinnacle Foods, including the Birdseye group, for nearly $11 billion. It is unknown if Conagra will move company headquarters to another location.

At this time, Birdseye corporate office remains in Darien, Wisconsin.

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Nintendo Corporate Office

Nintendo

Nintendo’s beginnings started off very differently from the company we know today. Back in 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi opened a playing card company he called Nintendo Playing Card Company. The handmade cards were so popular that they were soon being sold around the globe. The company does still produce playing cards, but they are sold only in Japan. The word Nintendo is roughly translated to “leave luck to heaven.”

In 1963, the company renamed themselves to just “Nintendo.” The company tried many other business ventures in the US in the 1960’s, everything from taxis to motels, instant rice to television networks, but none of them were successful.

History

After partnering with a toy and game company in the early 1970’s, business began to turn around. They created a light-activated shooting style arcade game that became very popular and the company’s direction took an entirely new turn.

The company’s first video game was made in 1977. In 1985, the company created what would become one of the most famous video game consoles, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, and video game in the world, Mario Brothers.

Today, Nintendo is one of the world’s largest video game companies, creating some of the best-known consoles and games in the world, including Mario Brothers, Pokemon, and The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo is Japan’s 3rd most valuable company, with a market value of more than $85 billion. Headquarters are located in Kyoto, Japan, with the American corporate office located in Redmond, Washington.

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