U.S. Franchise Systems
{{Infobox company
| name = U.S. Franchise Systems
| type = Subsidiary
| industry = Hospitality
| fate = Acquired by Wyndham Worldwide.
| successor = Wyndham Worldwide
| founded = {{Start date and age|1995}}
| founder = Mike Leven and Neal Aronson
| defunct = {{End date and age|2008}}
| hq_location = Atlanta, Georgia, US
| parent = Hyatt
| subsid = Microtel Inn and Suites
Hawthorn Suites
}}
U.S. Franchise Systems was a franchise company that owned Microtel Inns and Suites and Hawthorn Suites.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article33607.html|title=Wyndham Worldwide Completes Purchase of U.S. Franchise Systems|website=www.hotelnewsresource.com|access-date=2019-05-19}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hotel-online.com/News/PressReleases1998_2nd/USFranchiseBestInns_Apr98.html|title=U.S. Franchise Systems Completes Acquisition of Best Inns Suites Brand / April 1998|website=www.hotel-online.com|access-date=2019-05-19}}
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.
Aronson would later leave after the sale to Pritzker family in 2000, to form Roark Capital Group. Leven retired in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4030231.html|title=Mike Leven of US Franchise Systems Retires from Hospitality Industry|last=Net|first=Hospitality|website=Hospitality Net|language=en-us|access-date=2019-05-19}}
In 2000, the Pritzker family of Chicago, who owns Hyatt, purchased the company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2000/09/18/daily6.html|title=Hyatt owners to buy Atlanta-based U.S. Franchise|website=Atlanta Business Chronicle|access-date=May 19, 2019}} By 2008, Hyatt had sold it to Wyndham Worldwide.