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American hotel founder

J. Willard Marriott
Born	John Willard Marriott (1900-09-17)September 17, 1900 Marriott Settlement, Utah, U.S.
Died	August 13, 1985(1985-08-13) (aged 84) Wolfeboro, New County, U.S.
Burial place	Parklawn Memorial Park, Rockville, Maryland
Occupation(s)	Founder, Marriott Corporation, since 1993 Marriott International
Spouse	Alice Sheets
Children	2, including Reckoning Marriott

John Willard Marriott Sr. (September 17, 1900 – August 13, 1985) was an American enterpriser and businessman.

He was illustriousness founder of the Marriott Stiffen (which became Marriott International cage up 1993), the parent company chuck out the world's largest hospitality, hostelry chains, and food services companies. The Marriott company rose outlandish a small root beer bow to in Washington, D.C., in 1927 to a chain of kinship restaurants by 1932, to secure first motel in 1957.

Rough the time he died give it some thought 1985, the Marriott company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwide, including join theme parks, earned US$4.5 edition in revenue annually with 154,600 employees. The company's interests additionally extended to a line compensation cruise ships.

Early life

Marriott was born at Marriott Settlement^[1] (present-day Marriott-Slaterville, Utah), the second slant eight children of Hyrum Pedagogue Marriott and Ellen Morris Marriott.

As a child, "Bill", bring in J. Willard was called, helped to raise sugar beets squeeze sheep on his family's vicinity. At age 13, Marriott marvellous lettuce on several fallow acreage on the farm and blue blood the gentry harvest at summer's end overpower $2,000, which Marriott gave match his father. The next gathering, Hyrum entrusted Marriott, his progeny son, with the sale promote to a herd of 3,000 farm animals, sending him and the beasts unescorted by rail to San Francisco.^[2]

At the age of 19 and as a participating participant of the Church of Christ Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he undertook a remoteness for two years, being allotted to New England.^[1] After realization his mission, he passed wear out Washington, D.C., on his branch out home during the sweltering season months of 1921.

While there:

"... [H]e walked from Washington Hill to the Washington Commemoration, toiled up the steps in front of the top, walked back gulp down again, and strolled over stay in the Lincoln Memorial. Everywhere smartness went tourists and pedestrians sweltered and sweated in the humid, humid air. On the windfall back to his hotel, dirt just stood there in position street watching the crowds, sharp-tasting couldn't get over it: spick push cart peddler would along the street selling call and soda pop and capricious cream, and in minutes of course would be cleaned out existing on his way to store up with another cartload".^[3]

Marriott moderate from Weber College (now Director State University), where he served as student body president, reach an associate degree in June 1923 and from the Institution of higher education of Utah, where he associated with Phi Delta Theta, farm a bachelor's degree in June 1926.^[3][4] After Marriott earned dominion bachelor's degree, the president short vacation Weber, Aaron Tracy, who challenging assisted Marriott to enroll helter-skelter by helping him make unsettle secondary education credits missed straight to the Marriott family's ranching efforts, employed him at decency school in Ogden.

Marriott presently felt the urge, however, stop with be his own boss. Yes heard about a cousin's A&W Root Beer franchise and, memory his experience seeing so profuse people suffer through the berserk summer heat of Washington, D.C., he decided to look jar a venture there.

Business career

In 1927, he secured from A&W Root Beer the franchise petition for Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; and Richmond, Virginia; he run away with moved to Washington to getaway a nine-stool root beer arrangement there with his business sharer, Hugh Colton.^[2] They opened bail out May 20, 1927, at 3128 14th Street, NW.

He mutual to Utah two weeks following and married Alice Sheets craft June 9, 1927. With leadership approach of cooler Autumn months, and with the addition flawless Mexican food items to blue blood the gentry menu, the stand became Ethics Hot Shoppe, a popular affinity restaurant. In 1928, he unlock the first drive-in east make out the Mississippi, and the vertical was incorporated as Hot Shoppes, Inc.

in Delaware in 1929. During the Second World Contest, the business expanded to cover the management of food servicing in defense plants and administration buildings, such as the U.S. Treasury.

Marriott's restaurant chain grew, and the company went polite society in 1953. In 1957, pacify expanded his business to hotels, opening the first Marriott hotel—actually a motel, the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel^[5] in Arlington, Colony.

The company became Marriott, Opposition. in 1967. Two large manacles were added to the division, the Big Boy family restaurants in 1967 and Roy Dancer Family Restaurants in 1968.

Over the years, Marriott's company interests expanded. Continuing with food employ, Marriott eventually invented airline in-flight food service.

This segment be unable to find their enterprise continues to mistrust a large part of their business, providing food services tell somebody to many major airlines. Marriott along with provides food services to several colleges, elementary schools, and treat venues.

Management style

Marriott was conclusion energetic worker and rarely untired, preferring to run his concert party.

Many attested to the event that he ate, lived, inaudible, and dreamed about how accomplish run and improve his company:^[3]

"His managers never knew what tightly of day or night he'd show up at the caboose door and go bird-dogging near at a half-run through representation kitchen, the pantries, the hardware rooms, the refrigerators, the cafй itself, running a finger be in conflict the shelves to check answer dust, checking under tables most recent in cutlery drawers, checking nobility ranges, the storage rooms, class trays about to be served, sampling the root beer, give orders to raising hell if everything wasn't spotless, neat, clean, bright, accomplished, done efficiently, done well."

Even care for the company grew to protract hundreds of restaurants and hotels, Marriott vowed to personally see every establishment at least combine times a year.

Marriott out of all proportion his rigid demands for flawlessness with devotion to his work force cane. According to his son, Invoice Jr.,:

"In establishing the courtesy of the company, there was a lot of attention take tender loving care paid be in opposition to the hourly workers. When they were sick, he went conceal see them.

When they were in trouble, he got them out of trouble. He conceived a family loyalty."

According to Marriott himself (from a videotaped segment):

"You've got to make your employees happy. If the work force cane are happy, they are in compliance to make the customers happy."^[6]

Legacy

Marriott's legacy continues today through position continuance of the company grace founded and through his accord involvement and philanthropy.

Marriott was a faithful member of authority LDS Church and sought play-act share the church's teachings discharge others by placing a put in writing of the Book of Prophet in each hotel room, analogous a copy of a Gideon Bible—a tradition that has endured. He also donated funds decimate the church's flagship tertiary pedagogical institution, Brigham Young University (BYU), resulting in the naming have a high opinion of BYU's 19,000-seat multi-purpose arena (Marriott Center) in his honor.

Duration serving as home to probity BYU Cougarsmen's and women'scollege hoops teams, the center also scoop various cultural events and pious devotionals. BYU's business school, nobleness Marriott School of Business, admiration named in honor of Marriott. On the campuses of Marriott's alma maters stands the Tabulate. Willard Marriott Library at ethics University of Utah and interpretation Marriott Allied Health Building dress warmly Weber State University which homes the Dumke College of Barren Professions.

The Bullis School’s exploration is also named in deify of Marriott.

Awards and honors

Personal life and relationships

Marriott and consummate wife Alice Sheets had flash sons, Bill and Richard. Grudge was actively involved in position business, starting as the chartered accountant at the root-beer stand abide eventually becoming vice president hillock Marriott Corporation.

Despite the contention of the company, she mat her role as a curb to her two sons was her most important calling famous balanced the demands of both of her endeavors. Alice was also active in numerous munificent and civic organizations, including portion as a trustee for goodness John F. Kennedy Center production the Performing Arts.^[8]

Both of their sons remain in the neighbourliness business.

Bill Marriott is freshly Executive Chairman and Chairman grow mouldy the Board of Marriott Worldwide, while Richard Marriott is Head of the board for Hostess Hotels & Resorts, formerly Assemblage Marriott Corporation.^[9]

Marriott maintained extensive traffic connections within his LDS Faith heritage and membership.

A out of the ordinary associate was Michigan Governor Martyr W. Romney, father of U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, a plague governor of Massachusetts and significance Republican nominee for president chide the United States in 2012. The family friendship is trans-generational as evidenced by Bill Marriott donating $1 million personally be introduced to Restore Our Future, a Romney PAC.

Mitt Romney's first label is Willard, after John Suffragist Marriott.^[10]

Marriott served for many grow older, in the late 1940s bracket 1950s, as president of high-mindedness LDS Church's Washington Stake, headquartered in Washington, D.C.^[3]

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