Howard Johnson's restaurants were all franchises, and to make sure each one prepared the meals in the exact same way, frozen ...

But Howard Johnson was built up from the 1930s to 1960s according to a different culinary and technological model. Much of the food was sent out frozen from regional commissaries, but unlike ...

By 1940, one Howard Johnson’s had turned into 130 ... HoJo’s developed a system in which food would be made and then frozen for shipping and later reheating. While that preparation may sound ...

In 1982, Jansen was out on the frozen lake for the winter carnival ... DeSantis began hearing from customers that Howard Johnson’s felt like fast food served slow. “We go all around to eat ...

This Howard Johnson’s restaurant in this upstate New York resort village — which was the last of the famed restaurants tht served food under orange roofs with blue spires — has closed.