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 ...

This will become your go-to dinner, too. Adobe Stock For almost 100 years, Maid-Rite (or Maid Rite) sandwiches have been a cornerstone of quick Midwestern cooking. With a filling that is too loose to ...

Have you ever had a Maid-Rite? Iowa's loose-meat sandwich — perhaps second only to the pork tenderloin as the state's most famous culinary concoction between two buns — is known as a Maid-Rite after ...

After months of wheeling around area cities selling his loose meat hamburgers, Don Sanfordnow has the green light to park his Maid-Rite Lunch Boxtruck in his hometown. The downtown Rochester lunch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...