WEST BEND — A West Bend kitchen utensil and cookware manufacturing company is reopening its outlet store 18 years after it closed.

Regal & West Bend Cookware leadership and retired employees celebrated the reopening and spoke about the future of their business on Saturday during their Oktoberfest event.

The re-imagined outlet store and museum are open Wednesday through Saturday with an ever changing stock of discounted cookware.

People can drive to the manufacturing plant, get a look at classic appliances and then buy new, locally made, affordable pots, pans and other cooking needs.

"You always have stories about companies closing, we're growing and expanding," Dave Duecker said. "We're making an eight figure investment into this facility to set us up for the next generation and hopefu

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