Anderson announced Wednesday that he will be opening a new restaurant, Jimmie’s Old Southern Smokehouse BBQ, in Hayward, the northwest Wisconsin town where he opened the original Famous Dave’s ...

An view of the entrance to the first Famous Dave's BBQ restaurant in Hayward, Wis., which "burned to the ground" early Monday, Nov. 3. (Dml -/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

HAYWARD, Wis. -- The first Famous Dave's restaurant, built in northwestern Wisconsin in 1994 and the launching point for an international chain of barbecue restaurants, was destroyed by fire early ...