Post #215626 by Monkeyman on Sat, Feb 18, 2006 4:28 PM

I know what you are thinking if you have ever read a corporate annual report for a publiclly traded company. How on earth could this have anything to do with tiki?

A lot if you are the Marriot corporation......in 1962

Imagine my surprise when I walked in to the office of a new employee at our hotel management company and saw this hanging on his wall (its about 8.5" by 11")

Apparently he worked for the Marriott corp and found this old annual report in one of the file cabinets. Hot Shoppes is actually the original business that old man Marriott started when he purchased his first A&W root beer stand.

After expanding the business into the hotel industry they eventually changed names to Marriott International.

This photo is of the very first Kona Kai restaurant that Marriot opened in the Philadelphia Marriott in 1961-62. At the time this annual report was written, it was the only Kona Kai in existence.