Ron Rivett

Super 8 grew to be the largest budget hotel chain in the world.

[1] In 1993, Rivett sold Super 8 Motels to Hospitality Franchise Systems for $125 million.

[5] On December 9, 2023, Rivett died at Baptist Medical Center in Miami, FL[6] Rivett graduated from Northern State University with a degree in business in 1963 and received an honorary “Doctorate of Humane Letters” from NSU in 1990.

[7] My Place Hotels of America is a hospitality company in the United States headquartered in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

The company announced My Place Hotels alongside its franchising system in 2014.