Its interior having benefited from the Restaurant's brief ownership by the Marriott Corporation, after 1991 -- owned by FAI -- no additional improvements were made -- in fact even routine maintenance was kept to a bare minimum according to a long-time employee I spoke with during my 2001 visit.

Franchise Associates goal by the middle 1990s was to simply suck whatever they could still get out of the Howard Johnson name without putting anything back in to it.

Note that I drove from Orlando and back in one day just to visit Hollywood Beach in 2001 -- it was one of my last chances to buy a consumer packaged pint of authentic Howard Johnson's Ice Cream!