"On Restaurants | Taverns fuel owner's love: civic involvement" The Columbus Dispatch

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Bill Chronister
The Columbus Dispatch
May 13, 2008

..."What I've always sought is the power to cause change," said Lessner, 34. "People always say you have to be motivated by the money to open a restaurant. But I've always wanted something to generate some money so I could do things socially."

Lessner has three successful restaurants: She started with Betty's Fine Food and Spirits in 2001, and followed up with the Surly Girl Saloon in 2005 and the Tip Top Kitchen and Cocktails in 2007.

She just took possession of the former Queen Bee Restaurant, 248 S. 4th St., and plans to turn it into Dirty Frank's Hot Dogs by mid-July...