The Iowa staple has expanded to 25 locations across five states.

Maid-Rite celebrates 100 year anniversary while employees and customers reflect on memories at the restaurant.

It takes me back to my Iowa childhood.

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 ...

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 ...

The origins: Find a group of Hawkeyes and ask them if they’ve ever eaten at a Maid-Rite. You’ll hear a resounding cheer. This fast-food chain has been an Iowa staple since 1926, with a few other ...

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 ...

MARION - New owners of 1000 Seventh Ave. in Marion - where Maid-Rite closed its doors for the last time in January 2017 - have plans to reopen the building as an Airbnb and a family restaurant. Jamie ...

Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about? Email ...

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 ...