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Landry's, Inc., owns and operates more than 600 restaurants, hotels, casinos, and entertainment destinations in 35 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The company also owns and operates numerous international locations. The company is owned by President & CEO Tilman Fertitta. The first Landry's Seafood restaurant opened in Texas in 1980.
Spaghetti Warehouse is an Italian restaurant chain geared towards families with five physical locations in two U.S. states: four in Ohio, one in New York (state). They also operate a to-go only location in Texas. The chain started in 1972 in Dallas, Texas, and at one point had spread throughout the southern and eastern parts of the United ...
Redbox surpassed Blockbuster in 2007 in the number of US locations, [23] passed 100 million rentals in February 2008, [24] and passed 1 billion rentals in September 2010. [25] Redbox automated retail kiosk for DVD and video game disc rental. Automatic DVD kiosks still required consumers to leave home twice, to rent the movie and return it.
DVDXpress was a media company that owned and operated a network of DVD rental kiosks in supermarket locations across North America. The company was the second largest player in the DVD kiosk sector after Redbox, and was founded in 2001 by entrepreneurs Greg Meyer and Jason Tanzer as a way to fill the need for a more efficient and cost-effective method to provide DVD rentals in existing retail ...
Older movies would be re-categorized as "Blockbuster Favorite" titles and placed in a different area of the store. [139] Most Blockbuster locations also accepted trade-ins of used movies, TV shows, and games. [140] Since Blockbuster's founding in 1985, the chain refused to stock adult films in order to portray the brand as family-friendly. [141]
In 2003, the Alamo Drafthouse, under the direction of CEO Terrell Braly, opened on 13729 Research Boulevard in northwest Austin. The Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek had seven screens, all dedicated to new movies. In May of that year, the Alamo granted their first franchise, which opened in the West Oaks Mall in Houston, Texas with six screens.
Hastings Entertainment was an American retail chain that sold books, movies, music, and video games and functioned as a video rental shop.As of 2016 it had 126 superstores, which were mainly located in the South Central United States, Rocky Mountain States, and in parts of the Great Plains and Midwestern states.
Hollywood Entertainment Corp., [1] more commonly known as Hollywood Video, was an American video rental store chain. Founded in 1988, the chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was acquired by Movie Gallery in 2005. [2] It ceased operations in 2010, when Movie Gallery declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. [3]