Eighteen-year-old Samantha Frye has traded college life for entrepreneurship, and she has no regrets.

Frye began working at Rosalie’s Restaurant in Strasburg, Ohio at 16 as a dishwasher, working up the ranks as a kitchen prep, server, then line cook. All while working a second job, sometimes third job.

After graduating from high school, Frye started college at Ohio State with plans of studying business or environmental engineering. But when she came back to work a shift at Rosalie’s for winter break, an opportunity arose. The owners had planned to sell the restaurant.

The moment the opportunity appeared

“I was thinking that maybe [buying] was something I wanted to do,” she told News 5 Cleveland.........

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