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...retired U.S. executives who are looking for a second calling, opportunity is knocking in Poland. This week at the new Marriott Hotel in Warsaw, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher plans to announce a program organized by U.S. executives to advise Polish managers on how to think like American entrepreneurs and help revive their ailing national economy...
...usually] negotiate a second contract withthe Marriott people. They have indicated to methat they may not accept the Harvard contract,"Bozzotto said. "But we are going to let theBusiness School people know that there is notgoing to be a second class of dining hall workershere. We will strike if we have...
...resort business. As astronaut Alan Shepard showed in 1971 with his six-iron shot on the moon, golfers will go to practically any extreme to try out a new course. According to the National Golf Foundation, players spent nearly $8 billion of their golf outlays last year on travel. Marriott Hotels and Resorts, based in Bethesda, Md., currently operates 18 golf getaways in the U.S., plans to open another in Hauppauge, N.Y., this fall and has three more on the drawing board. "If we don't have golf, we'd better have an ocean," says Marriott vice president Roger Maxwell...
...Marriott has little interest in Howard Johnson's traditions. It prefers its own traditions, as exemplified by the name of co-founder Alice Marriott. Last June it began giving Bob's Big Boys in San Diego the new name of Allie's. "The intention, long term," says a company spokesman, "is to convert all Bob's Big Boys and Howard Johnson's to Allie's." While this was going on, however, some of the old-timers who had obtained their Howard Johnson's franchises from old Howard Johnson himself were fretting about being sold from conglomerate to conglomerate. So they...
This never came to court but came instead to an agreement in which Marriott and Prime each put up $500,000 to enable as many as 90 old-timers to incorporate in 1986 as Franchise Associates, Inc. A year later, 54 of the licensees actually bought stock in the new company. FAI now includes 137 individually owned Howard Johnson's restaurants in 26 states, a far cry from the 1,040 of yesteryear, but still . . . And although they don't all have all 28 flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, an FAI spokesman admits, they all have at least...