Worcester Restaurant Group

Four and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic altered the configuration of the U.S. workforce, Central Massachusetts employers are still navigating the reverberations of a landscape that changed overnight.

After more than four decades running three of Worcester's best known restaurants — initially The Sole Proprietor, and later Via Italian Table and One Eleven Chop House — Robb and Madeleine Ahlquist are ready to pass management of the group to the next generation.