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. One of the oldest fast-food restaurants in the United States, the Maid-Rite has nearly a century of history, and hungry Iowans are ...

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 ...

I grew up in southern Iowa where deer and pheasant nibbled in corn fields for as far as the eye can squint and bass and catfish swirled in backyard ponds. The kitchen table throughout my Midwestern ...

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.

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 ...

If you’ve never heard of Maid-Rites, let us introduce you to this famous little sandwich that hails from Greenville, Ohio. This little slightly sweet loose-meat sandwich — best described as kind of ...

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