The Barn is a longtime restaurant off Washingon Street that is popular with locals and known for its friendly staff and pies. The Barn in Brainerd was opened in 1945 by a family from Iowa. It was part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The old Maid Rite space in Uptown Marion is set to become the new home for The Purple Wagon.

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 ...

A popular Midwestern restaurant chain will be tempting mouths and threatening waistlines when it opens its first locations in the East Valley. Maid-Rite Diners, an 81-year-old company founded in ...

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia. — The iconic Taylor's Maid-Rite survived the tornado that came to town Thursday — and its workers soon began slinging meat to feed the rescuers who flocked into town. Elizabeth ...

Des Moines, Iowa-based Maid-Rite corporation promises to descend en masse upon the DFW metroplex, blanketing the area in its popular “loose meat” sandwich, tucked inside a mass produced white-bread ...

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