We would like to eventually take the chain national but for now we're slowly expanding and gauging customer response.

Given the tremendous customer response we have had to the Gaylord National, we have decided to increase the scope of the project by adding 500 rooms. We are, however, mindful of the escalating construction costs that have recently occurred nationwide and will continue to balance this issue in an effort to maintain high returns for our shareholders.

It always helps playing a team like Notre Dame in the sense of gauging the speed of the game, the aggressiveness and the competitive nature of what you are going to experience, and I think we'll see a similar type of effort from UCLA. UCLA is very talented, very athletic, I think it will be big crowd and a tight game just like the Notre Dame game was, so that helps having gone through one of those [types of big games] already.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.

Customers don't just walk through your door. They also keep it open.