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 ...

Greenville's Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe is known for its steamed loose-meat sandwiches. The shop opened in 1934. LISA POWELL / STAFF Since the late 1930s people have stuck chewing gum on the brick ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

If you've never heard of Maid-Rites, let us introduce you to this famous little sandwich you can find in Greenville, Ohio. This little slightly sweet loose-meat sandwich — best described as like a ...

The Maid-Rite sandwich was invented in Iowa in 1926 and remains popular to this day. Our version, which features seasoned ground beef, onions, and pickles, comes together in under 15 minutes. Nikki ...

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.

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