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  Howard Johnson's - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard Johnson's is a U.S. chain of restaurants and hotels which was founded in 1925 by Howard Deering Johnson when he borrowed $2,000 to buy a small corner drugstore in Wollaston, Massachusetts.
The Howard Johnson model of serving pre-made food with high quality ingredients in traditional dining rooms was also costly compared to the innovations introduced by new fast food outlets like McDonalds, which designed its products and restaurants to appeal to families with young children in particular.
In September of 1979, Howard Johnson's accepted an acquisition bid from Imperial Group PLC of Britain and was sold by the founder's son.
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 Johnson, Howard
Howard Johnson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1885.
Howard Johnson's Restaurant's Smart Meals are based on the federal government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Nevertheless, Howard Johnson made it possible for travelers and families on the go to eat nutritiously and enjoy a higher standard in all aspects of hospitality than was previously available.
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 Conrad N. Hilton College : Johnson, Howard
Howard Johnson is widely regarded as one of the first to introduce the restaurant industry to franchising.
Johnson also developed the concept of a uniform system of operations and procedures that provided for consistency in the rapid expansion of his ice cream shops, restaurants, and lodging properties.
Johnson believed new inventions such as the automobile would change the face of America, and he wanted to be the one to provide future American travelers with a chain of restaurants that would offer "good food at sensible prices".
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 Howard Johnson International, Inc.
Interestingly, Howard Johnson was once the largest restaurant chain in the world, but such fast-food outlets as McDonald's came to replace "HoJo" in America's affections, and the 1985 sale of the company essentially divided it into separate lodging and dining operations.
Howard Johnson's phenomenal growth was based on the application of two relatively new and untried concepts.
Once the war ended, Howard Johnson adopted a policy of smaller units in place of big, showy "roadside cathedrals." By the summer of 1947, construction was under way on the first of 200 new branches to stretch across the Southeast and Midwest.
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 TLU Athletics: Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Howard Payne (5-3, 5-2 ASC) intercepted four Sean Salinas passes and recovered a fumble.
Johnson hit Chris Jackson on a 28-yard pass for the first down at the TLU 5.
Johnson tossed three touchdown with 13-for-25 passing and 176 yards and no interceptions.
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 cloudtravel
He was a cleanliness nut and raised the standards of the depression-era roadside diner, creating a restaurant brand recognition not rivaled until the rise of the Golden Arches.
Johnson had great, American notions of value and quality, doubling the butterfat content in his 28 flavors of ice cream and increasing the size of the scoop to eight cones per quart (instead of the depression-era standard of 12 cones per quart).
At the height of the Howard Johnson's empire in the 1970s there were 500 restaurants, including 90 in Florida, which had the most of any state.
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 World-Wide Web Resources - Notable Kentucky African Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Johnson was also first violinist with the Louisville Civic Orchestra and a former vice president of the Mid-Western Tennis Association.
Johnson was a graduate of Kansas University and Hampton Institute.
Johnson, Thelma - The first African American elected official in Henderson County, she was elected to the Henderson County Board of Education in 1978 and served until 1986.
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 Guide to the Collection of Keen Johnson
Johnson received his elementary education in the common schools of the region and in 1914 graduated from Vanderbilt Training School, a boy's preparatory institute at Elkton, Kentucky.
Johnson was a stalwart in the Democratic party for years, serving as a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1940 to 1948.
Keen Johnson died February 7, 1970, in Richmond and is interred in the Richmond Cemetery.
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 Concerned Women for America - Howard Johnson Welcomes Blood, Sex, & Torture Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Howard Johnson’s hotel in St. Louis will close its doors to the public for an entire weekend at the end of April to host a sadistic sexual torture and bondage event.
Concerned Women for America is urging Howard Johnson and other hotel chains to stop hosting these sex-torture conventions.
The Howard Johnson chain was founded in 1925 by Howard Dearing Johnson, who opened an ice cream stand inside a drug store in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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 TIME.com: Host of the Highways -- Sep. 5, 1960 -- Page 1
This "landmark for hungry Americans" is the trademark of Howard Dearing Johnson, a onetime cigar salesman who has become a part of Americana (teenagers call his places "Hojos") by catering to the common denominator of U.S. taste and haste.
Johnson, 63, not only controls the world's largest restaurant chain (607), but has set up motor lodges in 24 states, now sells frozen and canned foods (clams, chicken croquettes) in supermarkets from Maine to Florida.
Johnson also occasionally samples Manhattan nightclubs with his fourth wife, but has sold his 60-ft. yacht, no longer collects paintings.
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 TLU Athletics: Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Dearing’s average of 9.4 tackles per game ranks him third in the conference in tackles.
Dearing missed one whole game this season due to an injury and missed most of the second half of the East Texas Baptist game with an injury.
Adam Johnson threw for 175 yards and touchdowns of 13, 26 and 3 yards to lead Howard Payne to a 21-14 win at Texas Lutheran.
www.tlu.edu /athletics/football/news/051105_week_9_preview_sul_ross.html   (1230 words)

  
 MASS. MARKET: The slow, wistful passing of HoJo's; Once 1,000 strong, only 9 eateries left
But Howard Dearing Johnson is probably turning over in his grave.
Johnson took over a little shop in the Wollaston section of Quincy eight decades ago and eventually turned it into a roadside dining empire that, at one time, dwarfed other icons like McDonald's and KFC.
The Howard Johnson's in Springfield, Vt. is slated to close next month.
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 Howard Johnson india, Go Anywhere Stay Here, howard johnson hotels and suites, luxurious room, luxurious suites, ...
The first Howard Johnson hotel opened in 1954 in Savannah, GA. The hotel chain was later acquired by Cendant Corporation, formerly HFS Incorporated, in 1990.
Howard Johnson became one of the first great landmarks of American travel and has been serving family and business travelers.
The first Howard Johnson® hotel opened in 1954 in Savannah, GA. The hotel chain was later acquired by Cendant Corporation in 1990.
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 Howard Johnsons Hotels and Inns
For today, more than ever, Howard Johnsons Hotels is a name that people trust, respect and look forward to seeing, wherever they travel.
Today, the Howard Johnsons Hotels name is on nearly 500 hotels in 14 countries.
Howard Dearing Johnson was one of those rare human beings who see their destiny, and have the drive, the talent, and the imagination to seize it.
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 APP.COM - Drug store spawned franchise | Asbury Park Press Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Starting with a corner drug store in Wollaston, Mass., in 1925, Howard Dearing Johnson built one of the country's first restaurant chains, which in turn spawned a chain of hotels.
Johnson then developed a signature hot dog, using top-quality meat, with both ends clipped off, and fresh, lightly toasted, buttered rolls.
By 1939, there were more than 100 Howard Johnson's restaurants along the East Coast, all of which had to abide by a strict set of rules Johnson himself developed, according to his biography on the Web site of Cendant Corp., which owns the rights to Howard Johnson hotels.
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 AP News from the Traverse City Record-Eagle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Johnson served in the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
Dearing was a gunner assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion with the 125th Infantry Regiment in Saginaw.
Howard was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division.
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 Cambridge HoJos hosts a new image - Boston Business Journal:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Howard Johnson's is a brand that started in Quincy in 1925, when Howard Dearing Johnson turned a neighborhood drugstore into a popular ice cream store.
Howard Johnson broke into lodging in 1954, and the commercial traveler became an important part of the business.
Sage Hotel Corp. was also the master franchiser for Howard Johnson's hotels in Canada in the late '80s and early '90s.
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 Characterization and Construction of Functional cDNA Clones of Pariacoto Virus, the First Alphanodavirus Isolated ...
Johnson, K. N., Tang, L., Johnson, J. E., Ball, L. Heterologous RNA Encapsidated in Pariacoto Virus-Like Particles Forms a Dodecahedral Cage Similar to Genomic RNA in Wild-Type Virions.
Johnson, K. N., Ball, L. Virions of Pariacoto virus contain a minor protein translated from the second AUG codon of the capsid protein open reading frame.
Johnson, K. N., Johnson, K. L., Dasgupta, R., Gratsch, T., Ball, L. Comparisons among the larger genome segments of six nodaviruses and their encoded RNA replicases.
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 franchise consultant franchise company small business franchise enquiries uk franchise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Like the ancient bones of 'Lucy' discovered by Donald Johnson in 1974, which scientists thought were mankind's first ancestor, Albert Singer has long been accepted as the originator of franchising in the United States.
White Castle is credited with many innovations in the fast food industry, particularly in their use of advertising and discount marketing, the first take out packaging to keep the food warm, and the folded paper napkin.
During that same period, Howard Dearing Johnson acquired a pharmacy in Quincy, Massachusetts and began to sell three flavors of ice cream together with a limited menu of cooked items.
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 HoJoLand.com
Less than 20 Howard Johnson's are currently in operation, a small fraction of the 929 serving meals in 1975.
Howard Johnson's, founded by its namesake, Howard Dearing Johnson, as an ice cream shop in Quincy in 1925, helped invent the concept of franchising.
The franchises numbered about 1,000 by the 1970s, but started to vanish in the 1990s as the orange-roofed eatery failed to evolve with the times.  Howard Johnson's is credited for inventing fast-food staples such as standardized menus and decor.
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Howard Johnson: Quincy MA Howard Dearing Johnson began his successful empire in 1925, at the age of 27.
Johnson obtained his mother's ice cream recipes and diversified the selection, eventually implementing 28 flavors made from natural ingredients.
In 1954, Howard Johnson coupled his restaurant with a motor lodge in Savannah, GA. The one-stop dining and overnight convenience further advanced his business.
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 Rita Johnson
Rita Ann Johnson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, August 13, 1913.
Her father, William J. Johnson, a Canadian national, immigrated to the United States in the early part of the century and settled in Massachusetts.
Lillian Johnson discovered her daughter lying on the floor of her bedroom and summoned paramedics.
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 News and Commentary - Top Stories - American Anglican Council Live Website
On December 12, 2005 a letter (below) was delivered to Bishop Howard which stated that during the first week of January, five congregations will transfer from the Episcopal Diocese of Florida to other provinces within the worldwide Anglican Communion.
These congregations seek to remain faithful to Christ and be in full communion with the majority of the members in the larger Communion.
Bishop Howard has told many privately and publicly that he expects no full reversal of the General Convention's decisions in the foreseeable future." Lebhar continued, "We deeply regret that the Diocese of Florida has failed to take the kind of sacrificial actions which would align it publicly with the vast majority of the Anglican Communion.
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 VirtueOnline - News - News - JACKSONVILLE: Redeemer Attorney Writes Scathing Letter to Bishop Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Howard to responsibility: the Archbishop and the Panel of Reference and this attorney.
The word though here in N Florida is that Howard was directed to put on hold his lawsuit against Redeemer.
Howard is a godly bishop, Howard has to be a revisionist, a liberal, a heretic, and lets hope not crazy like GIL.
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 New Faces in Victory Lane at MIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The yellow flag came out eight times and there were four different leaders before Jackson took the checkered flag four car-lengths ahead of Bubba Gale.
Davis broke Howard Langham's three week- old track record, but after a post- qualifying inspection, MIS pit official David Hamil determined that the intake manifold on Davis' engine was 15-thousandths of an inch too high.
Langham's old record still stands, and he was also the night's fastest super stock with a time of 23.321 seconds.
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Howard Johnson is a name that people trust, respect and look forward to seeing, wherever they travel.
Become a Howard Johnson Corporate Account Member and start saving today.
example of American entrepreneurship and solid American values at work.Howard Dearing Johnson was one of those rare....
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 Miscellaneous Johnson County, Kansas, Obituaries
She was born in 1945 in Dowagiac, Mich. She received both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in English from Western Michigan University.
She was born March 19, 1917, in Merriam, Kan., to Frank and Fern Martha (Keegan) Bowers.
He had lived the past 2 1/2 years at Johnson County Nursing Center, Olathe, to be close to his daughter and her family.
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 Howard Johnson Aurora
For more detailed information about Howard Johnson's Low Fee Structure and the many other benefits of owning a new Howard Johnson franchise please click here or call 1-800-758-8999.
As a fully automated card-based frequent guest program, Howard Johnson SuperMiles offers our most valued customers the opportunity to earn terrific awards.
Members can earn airline mile vouchers, free stays at Howard Johnson, free car rentals, and retailer gift certificates by earning one SuperMile for every dollar charged to their hotel room at qualifying rates, up to 3,000 points per stay.
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 Opinion Flash; 05/26/2000
Judge: FARMER First Paragraph: In this negligence action, Plaintiffs Lawrence T. Howard and his wife, Sharon E. Howard, have appealed the trial court's final judgment denying their motion for new trial and/or for judgment in accordance with their previous motions for directed verdicts.
The Howards filed this lawsuit after Lawrence Howard was involved in a multi-vehicle collision on Interstate 24 in Rutherford County.
The jury also found that the Howards had suffered no damages as a result of the accident and that Samuel Norwood was not liable for any fault attributable to Vita Norwood pursuant to the Family Purpose Doctrine.
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 HotelExecutive.com Hotel Business Review — Articles Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Howard Johnson story began in 1925 when Howard Dearing Johnson borrowed $2,000 to buy a small corner drugstore in Wollaston, Massachusetts.
Howard Johnson International Inc. has grown into an international franchise hotel chain with more than 500 franchised hotels in 15 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
There are many benefits to being affiliated with a well-recognized name, such as Howard Johnson International, a Cendant Corporation subsidiary that I am proud to serve as president.
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