Last of Howard Johnson’s restaurants closes in Lake George | Local

The restaurant did not open around Memorial Working day weekend and is for lease, according to the Moments Union of Albany. A publish on the Facebook internet site HoJoLand very last week said plastic tables, chair and memorabilia have been eradicated and there had been “cobwebs on the doorway.”

HoJo’s were well known to child boomers, who grew up on the restaurants’ 28 ice product flavors and fried clam plates. But they faded absent with the rise of quick-food items shops and there had been only a couple functioning beneath the Howard Johnson’s title by the beginning of 2015.

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

The Wyndham Resort Group has rights to the identify and had permitted remaining dining establishments to use the brand title primarily based on grandfathered contracts. The restaurant in Lake George was not part of a franchise.

There are even now Howard Johnson hotels.

A gentleman who leased the Lake George HoJo’s in 2015 after it was closed for many yrs was convicted of harassing staffers. It reopened underneath a new operator who held it managing for the previous several yrs, with pandemic-related pauses, in accordance to the newspaper.

Invoice Moon, the listing agent, claimed there was interest in the home, which could be utilized for one more cafe or a diverse company.

“It’s a wonderful locale and just hunting for the person with the right vision to acquire it ahead,” Moon explained.

It was not apparent if a person who leases the setting up for a restaurant could nonetheless use the HoJo’s identify.

An email seeking comment was despatched to the Wyndham Lodge Group.