Howard Johnson's is a chain of hotels and restaurants located primarily throughout the United States and Canada. Founded by Howard Deering Johnson, it was the largest restaurant chain in the US throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with over 1,000 company owned and franchised outlets.
Howard Johnson hotels are now part of Wyndham Worldwide. Howard Johnson's restaurants are franchises which license food and beverage rights from La Mancha Group LLC of New York.
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