Early returns peg Va.’s Warner, Ky.’s Yarmuth as industry’s first winners

ALEXANDRIA Va. A quest by eight restaurateurs for seats in the U.S. Congress got off to a successful start Tuesday evening when Majestic Café co-owner and former governor Mike Warner was projected the winner of the state’s Senate race. Minutes later, Rep. John Yarmuth, a co-owner of the Sonny’s BBQ chain, was projected as the winner of the race to represent Kentucky’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Yarmuth, a Democrat, beat Anne Northup, 57