The Maid Rite Sandwich Shop near 12th and Broadway says it was forced to close after a car crashed into the building and hit a gas meter, leaving the building with no gas this weekend. The owners say ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa's loose-meat sandwich — perhaps second only to the pork tenderloin as the state's most famous culinary concoction between two ...

DES MOINES Iowa Maid-Rite Corp. has partnered with Hy-Vee Inc. to open loose-meat sandwich shops in Hy-Vee’s convenience stores. The first Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe Express opened Nov. 26 in Omaha, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 1—Is it too early to call this a Christmas miracle? For many longtime patrons of the beloved Midtown Cafe, there is no better ...

DUNMORE – Nearly two years after a fire ravaged its Scott Twp. production facility, Maid-Rite Specialty Foods Inc. received grant funding to expand operations. The company, operating in Lackawanna ...

TODD: IT HAS BEEN AT THIS SAME EXACT SPOT SINCE 1926. IT IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE, BUT AFTER 50 YEARS, IT’S OWNER IS. IT’S ANOTHER BUSY LUNCH HOUR AT THE NEWTON MAID RITE. BUT CHANGE IS IN THE A.IR >> ...

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 ...

More than eighty years after Maid-Rite got its start in Muscatine, Iowa, the chain has finally made it as far west as Denver, where Ralph’s Maid-Rite Sports Diner opened last week in Littleton.

So, the deal with Maid-Rite is it’s really old (85ish) and their meat is loose. And apparently the funny naming homophones are simply attributed to the original founder’s inability to spell — not that ...

A Rochester restaurant is readying to roll this summer. The Maid-Rite Dineris going mobile with a new lunch truck. Don Sanford— Mr. Maid-Rite — plans to take his diner's loose meat hamburgers and hot ...

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