U.S. Franchise Systems was a franchise company that owned Microtel Inns and Suites and Hawthorn Suites.[1] It was founded in 1995 by Michael A. Leven and his nephew Neal Aronson.
In March 1996, the company acquired the franchise rights to Hawthorn Suites, and acquired full ownership of the brand on March 12, 1998.[2]
In 1998, U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc. announced that it has purchased Best Inns Suites.[2] 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.
Aronson would later leave after the sale to Pritzker family in 2000, to form Roark Capital Group. Leven retired in 2007.[3]