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| | Fairfield County Weekly: HoJo's Last Stand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Every HoJo's restaurant in Connecticut except one has been torn down or converted to a Bickford's, a Denny's, a Friendly's, a McDonald's, a Japanese steakhouse, a diner, a fitness center, a propane gas distributorship--just about anything not predicated on scooping 28 flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream. |
 | | HoJo's ambitious standards were first made in ice cream, which Johnson set about producing in a super-rich formulation, 19 percent butterfat, almost immediately after buying the Wollaston store. |
 | | HoJo motor lodges were sold to another company and are now associated with Cendant Corp. Franchisees--finding themselves suddenly orphaned--formed an organization to serve the remaining orange roofs: Franchise Associates Inc., headed by George P. Carter, whose father Irving had opened the first Connecticut Howard Johnson's in the 1930s. |
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