Marriott-Hot Shoppes , Inc
What was the official name of Marriott Corporation in Sep 1967?
Marriott Corporation Marriott Corporation was a hospitality company that operated from 1927 until 1993 , founded by J . Willard Marriott and Frank Kimball as Hot Shoppes , Inc . in 1957 , Marriott Corporation opened its first hotel in Arlington County , Virginia , United States as the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel ( demolished 1990 ) . Marriott Corporations first international property was opened in Acapulco , Mexico , in 1969 . Hot Shoppes became Marriott Corporation in 1967 , which subsequently split into Marriott International , Inc . and Host Marriott Corporation in 1993 . History . 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 . Marriotts 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 covered with sesame seeds and divided into three slices that was stacked with a dill pickle stripe in the top layer and tomato , lettuce , and a distinctive sauce on the bottom layer , and very thick milk shakes served with a long-handled spoon and an unusually wide straw . Then in the 1950s , Hot Shoppes , Inc . started providing food services to public schools and to Childrens Hospital in 1955 , a contract which they held for 35 years . The company went public in 1953 . In 1957 , the firm expanded into the hotel industry by opening the first Marriott hotel ( actually a motel ) , the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel , in Arlington County , Virginia . In 1964 , Hot Shoppes , Inc . was renamed Marriott-Hot Shoppes , Inc . The company later became Marriott Corporation in 1967 . In 1967 , Marriott acquired the Big Boy family restaurants chain from Bob Wian . The following year , Marriott acquired the Fort Wayne-based RoBees , a roast beef sandwich fast-food chain , but later discovered that they would not be able to use the RoBees name nationally . 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 in a few months later by converting RoBees and a few Hot Shoppe locations . Over the years , Marriotts 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 called Marriotts Great America in California and Illinois . Another was planned for in Maryland but local opposition prevented construction from ever beginning at any of the three proposed sites . The 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 are both renamed Californias Great America and Six Flags Great America , respectively . In 1982 , the company acquired Host International for $120 million and also Ginos Inc. , the owner of Ginos Hamburgers and Rustler Steak House restaurant chains , for $48.6 million . 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 . 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 and also a senior-living division . In 1985 , the company purchased the Howard Johnsons restaurant chain from the Imperial Group P.L.C . of London for $314 million with plans of converting the acquired restaurants to the Bobs Big Boy brand and to make Bobs the largest coffee-shop business in the country . In 1987 , Marriott sold the Big Boy restaurants franchise rights to Elias Brothers for an undisclosed amount while keeping 208 company-owned Bobs Big Boy restaurants in California and selected locations on the East Coast . In 1988 , Marriott purchased all 91 Wags restaurants from Walgreens Corporation , but dissolved the chain in 1991 . The Roy Rogers chain was sold to Hardees in 1990 for $365 million in cash . The Marriott Corporation ended its existence as a single company in 1993 , when it was split into two separate entities : 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 .