One of the last two Howard Johnson restaurants will close in a couple of weeks, leaving the last one remaining in New York State.
Howard Johnson hotel owner Sally Patel says the last day for the restaurant at her hotel in Bangor, Maine, is Sept. 6. That will leave one Howard Johnson restaurant in Lake George, New York.
Howard Deering Johnson started the business in 1925 with a soda fountain outside Boston. That evolved into a chain of restaurants featuring comfort food and 28 ice cream flavors. The eateries predated the ubiquitous orange-roofed hotels.
Patel said Tuesday she and her husband kept their restaurant going for four years because it's convenient for hotel guests. But she says business has been "very slow." She says the restaurant closing won't affect the hotel.
A Howard Johnson restaurant in Lake Placid NY closed in March 2015.
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