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 ...

H.H. the Rev. Bad Brad Wheeler -- of KRCL Radio and Legendary Porch Pounders fame -- recently contacted me to express his excitement over the first-ever Maid-Rite franchise... H.H. the Rev. Bad Brad ...

MARION - Maid-Rite will once again serve its loose-meat sandwiches in Marion. The restaurant is being brought back by co-franchise owners Joe Hill, of San Diego, Calif., and Jamie Hoth, owner of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) -- Serving up delicious meals to Springfield natives and travelers since 1924. Maid Rite celebrated their 100th anniversary this weekend of being the first drive thru in the ...

Eighty years ago, $300 could buy you a franchise and a recipe. On Nov. 26, 1928, Elzo Silkwood did just that. He paid $300 to the Maid-Rite company, was given the recipe for their loose meat ...

The construction is complete and the staff hired and trained in preparation for the May 23 opening of the new Maid Rite restaurant on Second Avenue South in Onalaska. Scott and Roxanne Stuhr look ...

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