"RELAX! We are not a fast-food place. If you are not served in 5 minutes... You'll get served in 9 or 12, maybe 15 minutes... We're cooking as fast as we can!!!"
and...
"IN A HURRY? May we suggest our EXPRESS LUNCH... Maid-Rite and Bowl of Soup -- $6.50. We can just about guarantee you'll get it in 10 minutes or less!"
-- Quotes lifted from the menu at the Maid-Rite in Marion, Iowa, where speed has a different context.
I have several pictures of a maid-rite loose meat sandwich I enjoyed during my trip to Iowa. It was decided that the publice not from the MW would not be ready for the image. My sister-in-law worked in a maid-rite shop in high school. Good stuff, no?
Posted by: Agricola | Monday, February 08, 2010 at 13:28
Beautiful. Sounds like the metropolis of Monroe, NC...
Posted by: ncw | Monday, February 08, 2010 at 16:41
They look SO weird and taste so good! They get shipped all over the world for folks who can't get back to Iowa to enjoy them. Maid rite is a word for the dictionary next time around. To ME Maid Rites and Pork Tenderloin sandwiches say IOWA to me....and I miss them!
Go, Dan!
Posted by: Joyce Sasser | Monday, February 15, 2010 at 16:48
So I've now been to the Maid-Rite West in Cedar Rapids, and when you order a sandwich they give it to you. Like right away.
Apparently they're heathens, at least according to the Maid-Rite in Marion, where they simply do not rush about, willy-nilly 21st-century style, but instead take the time to enjoy the finer things, such as loose-meat sandwiches made so fresh that they don't kill and butcher the cow until AFTER you sit down and order.
Posted by: Dan | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 18:19