Howard Johnson’s

Howard Johnson’s
any of a group of US restaurants and hotels. The restaurants became famous for their bright orange roofs and their 28 types of ice cream. The first of these was opened by Howard Dearing Johnson (1896?–1972) in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1929. The company’s name is often shortened to Hojo.

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