Maid Rite Review – Springfield, IL

Maid Rite is the brand name for a franchised group of restaurants that sell what is generically referred to as “loose meat sandwiches.”   Created by a butcher in Muscatine, Iowa, there are plus/minus a hundred outlets in the Upper Midwest selling Maid Rite type sandwiches, whether they are paying to use the name, or… Continue reading Maid Rite Review – Springfield, IL

Countryside, IL – Country Cup Diner

Give me a home, where the….oh, wait. Give me a diner, on Route 66, and I’ll be one happy camper. In a distant suburb of Chicago, the town of Countryside, is the  Highway 66 exit route from the Loop, and on it, inside a bowling alley, with little signage to let you know it’s there,… Continue reading Countryside, IL – Country Cup Diner