Word: marriotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy to sell an empire that included 1,040 restaurants (about a quarter of them , locally franchised,) plus 520 motor lodges for a tidy $630 million. But the deal did not bring lasting happiness to the Britons, and in 1985 they sold Howard Johnson's to the Marriott Corp. Marriott, which owns Bob's Big Boys, kept only about 400-odd company-owned Howard Johnson's restaurants, which magically began turning into Bob's Big Boy restaurants, and sold off the bulk of the empire to Prime Motor Inns...
...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...
...their defense, U.S. companies point to the large number of passengers they must feed on relatively short flights. Most carriers rely on a network of catering companies operating out of kitchens at major airports. The largest, Marriott In-Flite Services, prepares about 150 million meals a year on 150 different airlines -- including many foreign carriers. Thus while passengers on U.S. domestic flights wrestle with their rubbery entrees, Swissair passengers flying first class out of Atlanta may sample smoked salmon, caviar, lobster medaillons, foie gras, pan-fried trout or vacherin glace, among other esoterica. Even Swissair's coach-class passengers...
...past years, Harvard's Model U.N. was complicated by security problems, said Andrea G. Cohen '90, general assembly undersecretary. But, Cohen added, this year was virtually problem-free because, due to hotel renovations at the Marriott, students stayed at six different local hotels, with only about one-third of the participating students housed at the Marriott...