Restaurants

Despite a rainy start to the planting season, the outlook for the U.S. agriculture sector will still be better than last year when the Midwest was hit by a severe drought, according to a new report by BMO Economics.

Carson’s, a popular Chicago steak and barbeque restaurant, will open its new Milwaukee restaurant on Friday at 301 W. Juneau Ave. in The Moderne, a 30-story residential tower.

Capital Brewery will build an $11 million facility in Sauk City that could eventually pump out nearly 10 times the beer it makes at its Middleton brewery, the company said Tuesday.

A judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on Monday, June 10, approved the final sale of Waukesha's Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to Morton Grove, Ill.-based Lifeway Foods Inc.

A major investor in Smithfield Foods Inc., the parent company Patrick Cudahy LLC, is trying to pressure the company to explore a breakup of its subsidiaries, rather than pursue a planned takeover by a Chinese meat producer.

A judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware today approved the final sale of Waukesha's Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to Morton Grove, Ill.-based Lifeway Foods Inc.

The effort to establish Milwaukee as a global hub of freshwater research, technology and innovation received another boost today when Kikkoman Foods Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kikkoman Corp., announced that it will make a $1 million contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to, “advance the study of safe and sustainable drinking water.”

Sheboygan Falls-based Johnsonville Sausage LLC has unveiled two new smoked-cooked sausage flavors for the 2013 grilling season.

Sheboygan Falls-based Johnsonville Sausage LLC today unveiled two new smoked-cooked sausage flavors for the 2013 grilling season.

Menomonee Falls-based Cousins Subs has hired Jason Westhoff as chief financial officer for the corporation and its 140-store franchise system.