The restaurant scene in and around Worcester is growing.
As the city’s population increases – it’s up 14% over the last decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, making it the fastest-growing major city in New England – so too are its dining options.
Stephen Clark, vice president of government affairs at the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, said he didn’t have hard data, but estimated 50-75 restaurants opened in and around the city over a four to five year period before the pandemic.
“Worcester really put itself on the map,” Clark said.
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‘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.