♪♪ [Sandy Short] We are in Taylor's Maid-Rite in Marshalltown, Iowa.

We've been in this building since 1958.

Maid-Rite started across the street in 1928.

We're the oldest Maid-Rite still owned by the original family, which makes me very happy.

My grandparents, Cliff and Emma Taylor, started it.

♪♪ [Sandy Short] A Maid-Rite is a loose meat hamburger and people outside of Iowa probably don't know what it is, a lot of them.

So, we say it's a sloppy Joe without the sloppy.

♪♪ [Marc Rozak] It's like the best food joint in Central Iowa, absolutely.

If it's not Maid-Rite, it's made wrong.

[Sandy Short] We grind our meat fresh every day.

Yeah, fresh every day.

We grind every morning.

♪♪ [Sandy Short] Bring it up, cook it in a cast iron cooker you can see behind me.

♪♪ [Marc Rozak] Something about the steam table that makes everything perfect.

[Sandy Short] When they moved over here, they had bought a new cooker and the meat didn't taste the same.

So, they ended up going across the street, getting the old one and putting it in over here.

That's the original one, yeah, cast iron.

A lot of meat, 400 to 450 is a lot for a normal day.

So, special occasions, 500, 600 pounds.

♪♪ [Sandy Short] Mustard, onion and pickle.

We added cheese I don't know how many years ago.

And we now have this.

♪♪ [Marc Rozak] It's all about the original style.

Everybody kind of changed it.

They started adding ketchup now and cheese.

It's like nah, I'm okay without that.

I keep it original.

[Sandy Short] We want them to go out with full tummies.

Our Maid-Rites and malts are wonderful.

All of them are wonderful except vanilla.

Why wouldn't you be a little more brave than vanilla?

(laughs) ♪♪ [Sandy Short] Maid-Rites are an Iowa icon that everybody should experience at least once in their lives.

So many of our customers say, I've not been back for two years or four years or whatever, but I had to come and get a Maid-Rite.

♪♪ [Sandy Short] I am proud of this place and that we've had it all these years and our wonderful help that has kept it open.

We're an institution and I'm so proud of that.

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