Longtime HoJo owner Irving Carter, incorporated Toll Gate Foods and opened the first HoJo in Connecticut in Milford in 1936, opened this unit in 1939. Later, in 1985, his son, George Carter, who took over from his dad and owned numerous HoJo's throughout Connecticut, converted this HoJo to a no-name restaurant. It's ironic and fortelling as later on, George Carter, a founder of Franchise Associates, Inc., (FAI) (which was supposed to be the re-birth of HoJo's) eventually closed all of his HoJo's and presided over the demise of FAI. Thanks, George.
The HoJo Restaurant in affluent West Hartford, Connecticut. It opened in June, 1939, and later closed in January, 1985.
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