U.S. Franchise Systems was a franchise company that owned Microtel Inns and Suites and

Hawthorn Suites Hawthorn Suites is a chain of hotels in the United States owned by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. Most Hawthorn Suites offer amenities such as meeting rooms, exercise facilities, swimming pools, and a free hot buffet breakfast and dinner. It compe ...

. It was founded in 1995 by Michael A. Leven and Neil K. Aronson. In March 1996, the company acquired the franchise rights to Hawthorn Suites, and acquired full ownership of the brand on March 12, 1998. In 1998, U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc. announced that it has purchased Best Inns Suites. US Franchise Systems later sold the America's Best Inn (formerly Best Inns) chain to the Country Hearth Inns chain (since renamed America's Best Franchising Inc.) in 2005. Neil Aronson would later leave after the sale to Pritzker family in 2000, to form

Roark Capital Group Roark Capital Group is an American private equity firm with over $33 billion in assets under management. The firm is focused on leveraged buyout investments in middle-market companies, primarily in the franchise/multi-location, restaurant and fo ...

. Mike Leven retired in 2007. In 2000,

Pritzker family The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States of America (staying in the top 10 of ''Forbes'' magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the ...

of Chicago, who owns Hyatt, purchased the company. However by 2008, Hyatt sold it to

Wyndham Worldwide Travel + Leisure Co. (formerly Wyndham Destinations, Inc. and Wyndham Worldwide Corporation) is an American timeshare company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. It develops, sells, and manages timeshare properties under several vacation ownersh ...

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Hospitality companies established in 1995 Hospitality companies disestablished in 2008 Wyndham Destinations Hotel chains in the United States Hyatt Hotels and Resorts {{hotel-stub