{"id":16163,"date":"2026-01-06T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16163"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:22:16","slug":"toledo-getting-a-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/toledo-getting-a-mcdonalds\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo getting a McDonald’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tama-Toledo News-Chronicle<\/em> says<\/a> the Toledo City Council approved a plat of land “contingent on Fareway’s signature” that “is planned to be used for a new McDonald’s.”<\/p>\n

That’s big news!<\/p>\n

The Toledo city website has a bad link to the P&Z Board minutes for Dec. 22, so I can’t find any more details. Looking at Tama County Assessor’s records, the most likely location is the open space behind the Fareway. This is away<\/em> from facing US 63, but still easily accessible. Given recent trends, it is likely to have two drive-thru lanes.<\/p>\n

This will be only the second McDonald’s directly off US 30 between Carroll and Clinton, the other being in Marshalltown.<\/p>\n

A more attractive location, if they could have gotten it, would have been the site of the former Big T Maid-Rite, at the intersection of US 63 and Business (old) US 30 just to the north. That would also be across the street from Hardee’s, which has been Tama County’s only fast-food restaurant for decades.<\/p>\n

That Hardee’s could be in trouble, too. Vinton’s only fast-food restaurant for decades was also a Hardee’s, but when a mini-McDonald’s opened up as part of a new gas station, it was only a matter of months before the Hardee’s closed.<\/p>\n

Hardee’s hasn’t been on the same price scale as the other fast-food restaurants since 2003 and the “Thickburger” brand\/design revision<\/a>. Since then, though, many Hardee’s locations in Iowa have closed, including one on 1st Avenue in Cedar Rapids that just got replaced with a Starbucks. At least one has opened \u2014 in Holstein, at the TA Travel Center, which is the last fast food on eastbound US 20 until Webster City.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, no fast-food place has been able to hold prices down in the last three years. Maybe there will be a space for Hardee’s to stay around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tama-Toledo News-Chronicle says the Toledo City Council approved a plat of land “contingent on Fareway’s signature” that “is planned to be used for a new McDonald’s.” That’s big news! The Toledo city website has a bad link to the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16166,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16163\/revisions\/16166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}