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Joe Flacco sure seems to spend a lot of time in the kitchen.

M&T Bank featured the Ravens quarterback, wife and kids busy cooking at home in a commercial last year.

Now, Terra's Kitchen, a Baltimore-based meal delivery kit company, is tapping the Super Bowl-winning Flacco to tout its products. The nationwide campaign features the MVP putting a Terra's Kitchen meal together in his kitchen. The Baltimore company is trying to woo customers by offering an exclusive code, FLACCO, to consumers for $40…

A Chicago-based business has been expanding the footprint of its smart vending machine refrigerators in the Milwaukee area.

Farmer’s Fridge stocks automated refrigerators with chef-curated meals and snacks. The company has more than 180 refrigerator operations, including several around Milwaukee. The fridges can be found locally at locations such as Chase Tower, The Shops of Grand Avenue and Schlitz Park.

Recently, Farmer’s Fridge added locations in the Milwaukee Brewers’ front office…

The restaurant's parent company filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2017, but a commercial real estate investment veteran teamed with the founder of TicketCity.com to bring the business from the brink — and now there's talk of expansion.

A popular Cajun-style eatery in West Allis that closed abruptly this summer has a new owner.

Crawdaddy’s restaurant closed its doors at 9427 W. Greenfield Ave. in mid-July. The restaurant offered a variety of seafood fare such as paella, gumbo, scallops, catfish and jambalaya, among other menu items.

Crawdaddy’s was previously located at 6414 W. Greenfield Ave., where it closed for a three-year break starting in 2013 before reopening about two miles down the road in Feburary of 2016.

Prior…

With the new liquor laws coming into play, two of Wichita's Sam's Clubs have declined to renew its lease with current liquor store tenants.

MidTown Grill opened Tuesday in the space that was once home to John’s Sandwich Shop in Wauwatosa.

The diner-style eatery is open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, serving comfort foods out of an open kitchen. Mike Topolovich co-owns the new breakfast and lunch joint with his father Peter.

The establishment is the sister restaurant to North Avenue Grill at 7225 W. North Ave.

Mike Topolovich, who also serves as MidTown Grill’s chef, said the team aimed to give the restaurant at 8913 W. North Ave.,…

The property is where the Rodgers and Hammerstein partnership was formed, resulting in musical classics “The Sound of Music,” “Oklahoma!,” “The King and I” and “Carousel” and more.

MillerCoors is eliminating 350 positions across its organization, CEO Gavin Hattersley confirmed in an email to staff and distributors Tuesday.

The move comes at a time when, as Hattersley said in the email, the Chicago-based brewer is “moving quickly and decisively to get our business back on track.” Sales of Coors Light have lagged in 2018 and MillerCoors axed Two Hats, a flavored beer that was supposed to appeal to millennials, within the same year it was introduced.

“We know we need the financial…

Miller Coors, the Chicago-based, U.S. division of Denver-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. (NYSE: TAP), is eliminating 350 positions as part of a corporate “restructuring plan.”

In a blog post Tuesday, the company said the reorganization results from “several years of volume declines amid a challenging industry, including a tough first half of 2018.”

The 350 positions being eliminated across the organization include 150 that had been held open or were cut earlier this year. MillerCoors is also offering…