| Formerly | The Hot Shoppe (1927–1929) Hot Shoppes, Inc. (1929–1964) Marriott-Hot Shoppes, Inc. (1964–1967) |
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| Company type | Public |
| NYSE: MHS | |
| Industry | Hospitality |
| Founded | 1927 as The Hot Shoppe in Washington, D.C., U.S. Incorporated in 1929 as Hot Shoppes, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Founder | J. Willard Marriott |
| Defunct | 1993 |
| Fate | Corporate split |
| Successor | Marriott International and Host Marriott Corporation |
| Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Bill Marriott (chairman, CEO and president) at time of corporate split |
| Products | Hotels, resorts, restaurants, food service |
| Total assets | $9.1 billion (1992) |
| Owner | Marriott family (25%) |
| Footnotes /references [1] | |
The Marriott Corporation was a hospitality company that operated from 1927 until 1993. It was founded by J. Willard Marriott and Frank J. Kimball as Hot Shoppes, Inc. In 1957, it opened its first hotel in Arlington County, Virginia, the Marriott Motor Hotel (demolished 1990). [2]
Marriott Corporation's first international property was opened in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1969. [2] Hot Shoppes became Marriott Corporation in 1967, which subsequently split into Marriott International, Inc. and Host Marriott Corporation in 1993.
J. Willard Marriott, who had moved away with his business partner Hugh Colton and his wife Alice from Utah to Washington, D.C., in 1927, where he operated a curbside food stand selling A&W Root Beer in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington at 14th Street and Park Road NW.
He would later rename the food stand The Hot Shoppe, adding Mexican food items to the menu. [3] [2] Marriott's business expanded to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1934, shortly after which the company started its food services division. During Second World War, the business expanded to include the management of food services in defense plants and government buildings, such as the U.S. Treasury.
They introduced popular items such as the "Mighty Mo", a double hamburger served in a bun, topped with sesame seeds and divided into three slices. It was stacked with a dill pickle strip in the top layer and tomato, lettuce, and a distinctive dressing on the bottom layer. Very thick milk shakes were served with a long-handled spoon and an unusually wide straw, both of which would stand upright by themselves in the thick drinks. Similarly thick orange sherbet drinks were served in the same tall glass with a spoon and a straw, often called a "freeze". These would become mainstays of the luncheon menu and be imitated forever thereafter.
Then in the 1950s, Hot Shoppes, Inc. started providing food services to public schools and to Children's National Medical Center in 1955, a contract which they held for 35 years.
The company went public in 1953. [4] [5] [6]
In 1957, the firm expanded into the hotel industry by opening the first Marriott hotel, the Marriott Motor Hotel, in Arlington County, Virginia.
In 1964, Hot Shoppes, Inc. was renamed Marriott-Hot Shoppes, Inc. [7] The company became Marriott Corporation in 1967.
In 1967, Marriott acquired the Big Boy family restaurants chain from Bob Wian. [8] [9]
The following year, Marriott acquired the Fort Wayne-based RoBee's, a roast beef sandwich fast-food chain, [10] but later discovered that they would not be able to use the RoBee's name nationally. [11] At the suggestion of the new Marriott board member Bob Wian, cowboy actor Roy Rogers was contacted to lend his name to the roast beef sandwich venture, and the Roy Rogers Family Restaurants was formed a few months later by converting RoBee's and a few Hot Shoppe locations. [12] [13]
Over the years, Marriott's company interests expanded. Continuing with food services, Marriott eventually became involved with airline in-flight food service. This segment of their enterprise continues to be a large part of their business, providing food services to many major airlines.
In 1976, Marriott opened two theme parks named Marriott's Great America in California [14] and Illinois. [15] Another was planned for in Maryland but local opposition prevented construction from ever beginning at any of the three proposed sites. Marriott had also reached an agreement to acquire Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio, but the deal was later called off. [16] The theme parks had replicas of the first Hot Shoppes. Both parks were sold in the mid-1980s, the one in California was sold to the city of Santa Clara, California and the one in Illinois was sold to Six Flags in 1984. They were both later renamed California's Great America and Six Flags Great America, respectively. [17] [18]
In 1982, the company acquired Host International for $120 million [19] and also Gino's Inc., the owner of Gino's Hamburgers and Rustler Steak House restaurant chains, for $48.6 million. [20] [21] 108 Rustler Steak House Restaurants plus three other restaurants were sold in the following year to two different firms for undisclosed amounts. Newly formed Tenly Enterprises purchased 94 restaurants while Sizzler Restaurants International purchased the remaining 17. [22]
By 1984, Marriott had formed a vacation time-share division, now called Marriott Vacation Club International, through the purchase of American Resorts Group for an undisclosed amount [23] and also a senior-living division.[ citation needed ]
In 1985, the company purchased the Howard Johnson's restaurant chain from the Imperial Group P.L.C. of London for $314 million [24] [25] with plans of converting the acquired restaurants to the Bob's Big Boy brand and to make Bob's the largest coffee-shop business in the country. [26]
In 1987, Marriott sold the Big Boy restaurants franchise rights to Elias Brothers for an undisclosed amount while keeping 208 company-owned Bob's Big Boy restaurants in California and selected locations on the East Coast. [27]
In 1988, Marriott purchased all 91 Wag's restaurants from Walgreens Corporation, [28] but dissolved the chain in 1991.
The Roy Rogers chain was sold to Hardee's in 1990 for $365 million in cash. [13]
The Marriott Corporation ended its existence as a single company in 1993, when it was split into two separate entities: [29] 1) Marriott International Corporation, which operated the hotel and lodging aspect of the business and Marriott Vacation Club International, and 2) Host Marriott Corporation, the new name for the original Marriott Corporation and operating the Marriott Food Services Management. The last Hot Shoppes restaurant, located in the Marlow Heights Shopping Center, closed on December 2, 1999. [30]
Hardee's Restaurants LLC is an American fast-food restaurant chain operated by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. ("CKE") with locations primarily in the Southern and Midwestern United States. The company has evolved through several corporate ownerships since its establishment in 1960 in North Carolina.
Howard Johnson by Wyndham, still commonly referred to as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with over 200 hotels in 15 countries. It was also formerly a restaurant chain, which at one time was the largest in the U.S., with more than 1,000 locations. Since 2006, all hotels and company trademarks, including those of the defunct restaurant chain, have been owned by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
Roy Rogers Franchise Company, LLC is a chain of fast food restaurants primarily located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. The chain originated as the rebranding of the RoBee's House of Beef chain of Fort Wayne, Indiana, acquired by the Marriott Corporation in February 1968. However, Marriott first used the Roy Rogers Roast Beef name on conversions of the company's Junior Hot Shoppes in the Washington, D.C. area in April 1968, then the existing RoBee's stores. An aggressive nationwide franchising campaign was launched. At its peak, the chain included over 600 locations. The chain now has 38 locations in six states, either company owned or franchised.
Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging brands that include hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. Marriott International owns over 36 hotel and timeshare brands with 9,000 locations and 1,597,380 rooms across its network. Marriott International is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The company is the successor to the hospitality division of the Marriott Corporation, founded by J. Willard Marriott (1900–1985) and his wife Alice Marriott (1907–2000).
Big Boy Restaurant Group, LLC, doing business as Big Boy, is an American casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. The Big Boy name, design aesthetic, and menu were previously licensed to a number of regional franchisees.
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John Willard Marriott Sr. was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation, the parent company of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies. The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington, D.C., in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. By the time he died in 1985, the Marriott company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwide, including two theme parks, earned US$4.5 billion in revenue annually with 154,600 employees. The company's interests also extended to a line of cruise ships.
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Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. is a hotel, resort, entertainment, and media company named for one of its assets: the Ryman Auditorium, a National Historic Landmark in Nashville, Tennessee. The company's legal lineage can be traced back to its time as a subsidiary of Edward Gaylord's Oklahoma Publishing Company; however, the backbone of the modern entity was formed with the company's acquisition of WSM, Inc. in 1983. This purchase resulted in the ownership of the Grand Ole Opry and associated businesses, including the company's flagship resort property, then known as Opryland Hotel. As such, Ryman Hospitality cites 1925 as its origin year.
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Gino's Hamburgers was a fast-food restaurant chain founded in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti and running back Alan Ameche, along with their close friends Joe Campanella, who played linebacker for six seasons for the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts and Louis Fischer, in 1957. A new group of restaurants under the Gino's name, involving some of the principals of the original chain, was started in 2010. Campanella left the group in 1963 and started his own restaurant, Rustler Steak House.
Stephen Frasier Bollenbach was a financial manager and former CEO and CFO for many hotel-related organizations. After working with financier Daniel K. Ludwig from 1968 to 1980, he oversaw mergers and acquisitions for various corporations such as the Marriott Corporation, Holiday Corporation, Harrah's Entertainment, the Trump Organization, Disney, and Hilton Hotels. He was on numerous corporate boards, including the non-executive chairman of Los Angeles-based KB Home and a member of the board of directors of Time Warner. Additionally, Bollenbach was on the board of directors for American International Group, Inc. (AIG) during the 2007 financial crisis, and was also a director of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., Macy's, Inc., and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
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Hot Shoppes, Inc., Washington, D. C., plans to offer its stock to the public for the first time since the curb-service restaurant chain was founded in 1927.
Hot Shoppes, Inc., family-owned for a quarter of a century, is expected to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week for the first public offering of shares.
First public offering of Hot Shoppes Inc. common stock was snapped up within two hours yesterday. Some local brokers reported oversubscription by two or three times the amount allotted to them.
Marriott Hot Shoppes, Inc., will be the new corporate name of Hot Shoppes, if shareholders vote approval at the annual meeting on Nov. 10.
Marriott-Hot Shoppes Inc., is negotiating to acquire Robert C. Wian Enterprises Inc., and its affiliated Big Boy Properties Inc., officials of the two firms announced Wednesday.
The Marriott Corp. has completed the acquisition of the RoBee's fast-food franchise organization based in Fort Wayne...
The city of Santa Clara has decided to buy Marriott's Great America amusement park in a $101-million deal to save 138 acres of prime Silicon Valley land from developers...
Bally Manufacturing Corp. completed Friday its previously announced $114.5 million acquisition of Marriott's Great America theme park in Gurnee from Marriott Corp.
Marriott Corp. has acquired the American Resorts Group, a Florida-based developer and operator of vacation time-sharing condominiums, it was announced yesterday. Terms were not disclosed.
The two companies, known as Marriott International Inc. and Host Marriott Corp., will be listed separately on the New York Stock Exchange and have their own management teams.
But the last of the Hot Shoppes closed its doors at exactly 1 p.m. yesterday, bringing an end to a chain of restaurants that epitomized the '50s and '60s... Most of the Hot Shoppes closed in the '80s. A few weeks ago, the second to the last closed in Crystal City.
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