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

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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