Restaurants

Milwaukee-based Lowlands Group will hit the restart button this Friday as all eight of its restaurants begin carryout, curbside and delivery service.

The Milwaukee Public Market has been largely desolate since the onset of COVID-19 forced bars, restaurants and venues to limit operations or close doors. But that changed last week as vendors started to restock their shelves and fire up their grills for what's considered phase one of the market's reopening.

Milwaukee-based Stone Creek Coffee will begin to reopen its cafes for pick up next week, after shutting down for seven weeks in response to COVID-19.

The past six weeks has been a trying time for local full-service restaurants, many scrambling to launch curbside and delivery service to survive or closing up shop all together as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced dining rooms to shut down.

The owner of Ninja Japanese Steakhouse in West Bend and Menomonee Falls has purchased a downtown Milwaukee building where he plans to open a new restaurant.

Paul Bartolotta, chef, owner and co-founder of Milwaukee-based The Bartolotta Restaurants, is a finalist for the 2020 James Beard Awards, the James Beard Foundation announced Monday afternoon.

Good City Brewing has taken over a former bank drive thru at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa to operate a second curbside pick-up location while its taprooms remain closed due to COVID-19.

Businesses try to pivot during pandemic

As curbside pick-up and delivery emerges as a means of survival for a restaurant industry ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, one of Milwaukee's most prominent restaurant groups remains on the sidelines-- much to the dismay of diners, but all in the name of flattening the curve.

Molson Coors Beverage Co. says the cost of reimbursing bars for untapped kegs and not being able to sell finished kegs soon enough will cost it around $50 million.