Zeige Distributing Company, Inc., a Wisconsin Corporation v. All Kitchens, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Zeige Distributing is a wholesale food distributor, peddling to restaurants groceries such as spices, flour, canned goods, eggs, cheese, milk, frozen food, and paper products. In 1992 Zeige Distributing decided to affiliate with a larger food distribution organization because doing so would give it such advantages as cash discounts on volume purchases and training material that would make it more profitable. Zeige Distributing approached All Kitchens, a group of food distributors that affiliated to achieve greater buying power, to explore affiliation. Steven Zeige, the…