Here are some of the stories "behind the scenes" of restaurant chains that no longer exist that you might not have known about. In the early 1920s, a business owner by the name of Howard Johnson ...

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. HOWARD JOHNSON’S was one of the largest and most popular restaurant and hotel chains in America during the 1970s, with more than 1,000 locations across the country ...

Presumably the restaurant chain will construct something similar to its typical edifices, adapted to catch University trade. This will be the sixth Howard Johnson's in Cambridge, but is the first ...