‘It was always the plan’: Owners of Sole Proprietor, VIA, One Eleven Chophouse hand reins to daughter after 41 years of building Worcester Restaurant Group
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Caitlyn Carolan’s resume includes a host of achievements that qualify her to inherit her family’s restaurants in Worcester.
Her mother, Madeleine Ahlquist, though, knew her qualifications years before she graduated from Bancroft High School and earned business and interior design degrees from Syracuse University.
Decades before Carolan worked as a designer in Worcester and Boston and moved to New York City to head customer service for a $500 million apparel manufacturer, her mother remembered the youngster unofficially managing the children’s menu at Sole Proprietor.