Howard Johnson’s: Last of once popular eateries closed in NY

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) — The Howard Johnson’s cafe in this upstate New York vacation resort village — the past of the when-pervasive eateries serving food stuff below orange roofs with blue spires — is closed.

The restaurant just south of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains did not open up about Memorial Working day weekend and is for lease, in accordance to the Moments Union of Albany. A put up on the Facebook web-site HoJoLand last 7 days reported plastic tables, chair and memorabilia ended up removed and there had been “cobwebs on the door.”

HoJo’s ended up nicely identified to newborn boomers, who grew up on the restaurants’ 28 ice cream flavors and fried clam plates. But they pale absent with the rise of quick-food stuff stores and there only a few operating under the Howard Johnson’s title by the beginning of 2015.

Eating places in Lake Placid, New York and Bangor, Maine closed in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

The Wyndham Lodge Group has legal rights to the identify and had permitted remaining dining places to use the brand name based on grandfathered contracts. The restaurant in Lake George was not section of a franchise.

There are even now Howard Johnson lodges.

A guy who leased the Lake George HoJo’s in 2015 following it was shut for a number of a long time was convicted of harassing staffers. It reopened below a new operator who retained it managing for the previous numerous a long time, with pandemic-connected pauses, according to the newspaper.

Monthly bill Moon, the listing agent, reported there was curiosity in the house, which could be made use of for a further restaurant or a various organization.

“It’s a great site and just looking for the man or woman with the suitable vision to consider it forward,” Moon said.

It was not very clear if someone who leases the setting up for a restaurant could continue to use the HoJo’s name.

An electronic mail in search of remark was sent to the Wyndham Hotel Group.