D'amico & Partners

Davanni's Pizza & Hot Hoagies was founded in 1975. Its menu includes pizza, hoagies, calzones, lasagna, gourmet salads, desserts, chips, breadsticks, garlic cheese bread and kid's meal items. The restaurant was originally known as Pontillo's Pizzeria, an offshoot of a western New York family pizza restaurant. The company changed its name to Davanni s in 1983, which allowed it to be trademarked. Davanni s was the first to introduce authentic New York hand-pounded and hand-tossed traditional crust pizza to the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., area. Two other crusts were eventually added, which includes a light, buttery deep-dish crust, in 1986, followed by a delicate thin crust, in 1994. Davanni's Pizza & Hot Hoagies is headquartered in Plymouth, Minn.

Founded in 1956, Embers America is a family-owned and operated company that provides a range of business development services. It offers solutions to restaurants through the Restaurant Resource Kitchen. The company consists of a network of vendors, manufacturers and distributors. It offers solutions in the fields of food purchasing, business management, advertising and marketing. The company additionally provides management services related to operations support, profit control, sales building, technical assistance, human resources and training. It coordinates employee benefit and licensing programs, as well as offers free consultation services. Embers America supplies products from the Sara Lee, Heinz, Nestle, Kemps, Campbell s and McCain brands.