Have you ever had a Maid-Rite? Iowa's loose-meat sandwich — perhaps second only to the pork tenderloin as the state's most famous culinary concoction between two buns — is known as a Maid-Rite after ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Maid-Rite Corp. and Hy-Vee Inc. are planning to open several sandwich shops at Hy-Vee convenience stories across the Midwest, the Iowa-based companies said Tuesday. Maid-Rite opened ...

The Barn is a longtime restaurant off Washingon Street that is popular with locals and known for its friendly staff and pies. The Barn in Brainerd was opened in 1945 by a family from Iowa. It was part ...

That Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop has been satisfying Springfield diners for decades is undisputable. But just how many decades the signature, loose-meat sandwiches have been served up at the 118 N.

UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP. THE NEWTON TRADITION LIVES ON THE MADE RIGHT HERE IN NEWTON IS BACK OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND WE WERE KIND OF CRUSHED TO FIND OUT THAT IT HAD CLOSED. BUT THEN JUST LAST NIGHT, WE ...

A popular Midwestern restaurant chain will be tempting mouths and threatening waistlines when it opens its first locations in the East Valley. Maid-Rite Diners, an 81-year-old company founded in ...

The Maid-Rite sandwich was invented in Iowa in 1926 and remains popular to this day. Our version, which features seasoned ...

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