Natalie Young is a giver. Her fried chicken dinners raise money to buy computers for at-risk youth, the same kids she employs at her Downtown Las Vegas breakfast and lunch restaurant Eat. When she opened in 2012, Young borrowed $225,000 from the Downtown Project to get her started, and paid the loan back within a year, a testament to the popularity of the restaurant that helped Fremont East turn into a magnet for scrappy chefs who wanted to open their own place. Her story of losing her family, partner, and job to addiction before she opened Eat even lead to a starring role in a commercial for American Express that aired during the Academy Awards in 2015.