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Maid-Rite is an American casual dining franchise restaurant chain. Before it became a restaurant chain, it was a single restaurant, opened in 1926 by Fred Angell. By the end of the 1920s, four franchises were granted; these four restaurants are still in operation. Maid-Rite Corporation's CEO and president is Bradley L
15. Maid Rite Sandwich Shop. Springfield, Illinois. Not to be confused with the Maid-Rite chain, this Maid Rite Sandwich Shop opened in 1924. It claims to have the first drive-thru window in ...
Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop: Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop. August 16, 1984 : 118 N. Pasfield St. Springfield: 42: Bell Miller Apartments: Bell Miller Apartments ...
The Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop in Springfield, Illinois, is one of the few remaining early Maid-Rite franchises in the United States. This specific shop, built in 1921, claims to have the first drive-thru window in the U.S. [2] The building, along historic U.S. Route 66, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Iowa: Maid-Rite. Maid-Rite specializes in the loose meat sandwich, which is like a sloppy Joe without the sauce, or a hamburger that isn't pressed together. It's the kind of dish people love if ...
The Springfield Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop claims to be the nation's first drive-thru restaurant. In the early years of Route 66, many motorists brought their own food along with them and cooked it on the road. Constrained by tight finances and a mistrust of the unknown quality of road food, these earliest travelers were often reluctant to eat out.
Cozy Dog Drive In (Springfield) – A hot dog restaurant with Route 66 memorabilia and a gift shop. Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop (Springfield) – Maid-Rite franchise built in 1921 and housed in a listed building. [5] Shea's Gas Station Museum (Springfield) – Former gas station and museum. Closed in 2015. [6]
Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County.The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.