The local chain started in 1926 in Muscatine, Iowa. Workers and customers alike celebrate 100 years of the restaurant and its ...

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 ...

It takes me back to my Iowa childhood.

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 Iowa restaurant that wants the state legislature to exempt it from important food safety rules says its way of making loose meat sandwiches has never made anyone sick. Taylor’s Maid-Rite in ...

Bradley Burt prefers to stick close to his roots. The 1965 Waukee High School graduate went from a 20-year career in commercial lending with Bankers Trust to starting a private consulting firm and ...

You don't have to love loose-meat sandwiches. You don't have to hate them. But at some point you're going to get offered one. Maid-Rite is ingrained in the DNA of Iowa. Just like you have to renew ...

Reggie Love, the former walk-on basketball player at Duke University who went on to become team captain, is out with a new book Feb. 3 called “Power Forward: My Presidential Education” that relates ...

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, ...

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