‘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
Updated 6:00 AM;
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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.
New Worcester Restaurant Group president wants to fill restaurants again
WORCESTER The new president of The Sole Proprietor, One Eleven Chop House and VIA Italian Table plans to map a future for the three restaurants but first wants to maintain financial strength by reaching full capacity by the end of the summer.
Caitlyn Carolan, the daughter of the owners of Worcester Restaurant Group, was named to her new role last week. She said the group does not currently have plans for major changes at the restaurants beyond re-establishing business as usual as the state continues to ease COVID-19 restrictions.
“My own personal goal is to take everything day-by-day, Carolan said. It’s hard for me to think of plans a year or two years down the road. I think even if we weren’t in the COVID situation it would still be my same goal, because there are so many things that come up in a day. Of course we have hopes and dreams, so it’s our goal to keep the restaurants financially h