Today we start our lunch links not with Iowa sports news, but with something much more near and dear to our hearts: the Hamburg Inn.
If you haven’t heard, the Iowa City breakfast staple is going global. Instead of opening up a new joint in, say, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine as it builds slowly towards expansion, the pie shake purveyor is opening 30 locations seemingly at once, with stops reaching from Moline to Shanghai:
“The first group will be in the state of Iowa. I’m looking for a minimum of 30; we have to hire 10 or more [employees per restaurant],” Lee said.