Despite record beef prices linked to a country-wide cattle shortage, long lines formed at local butcher shops Tuesday as Milwaukee-area residents shopped for their Christmas dinners.
Some restaurants are temporarily raising steak prices by $8, while butcher shops are seeing customers willing to pay premium prices for holiday favorites.
At Ray’s Butcher Shoppe in Greenfield, customers lined up out the door at opening, with the shop at one point serving nearly 100 orders in just 30 minutes…