I got the following article via email which appeared in a Chicago newspaper:
Numerically, the Maid-Rite fast-food franchise poses no threat to McDonald’s, but it has demonstrated staying franchise in America (after A&W).
Launched almost 80 years ago in Iowa, it has its corporate headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, but you’ll find a pair of Maid-Rite outlets east of the Mississippi River in Quincy, Ill. This charming river town of about 40,000 attracts foodies to its companionable watering holes and down-home
eateries - and, perhaps, to the local Maid-Rites for their specialty sandwiches. It also draws a flock of architectural buffs who go to admire buildings that fill five distinct historic districts.
Quincy is the seat of Adams County. Both take their names from the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, son of the second U.S. president (the only such father-son combination until the election of George W. Bush). From 1850 to 1930, Quincy was the most prominent river town in Illinois, and at one time the state’s second-largest city, bigger than Chicago.
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