CHRIS RUSSELL | Dispatch

Elizabeth Lessner, 34, has started three restaurants, including the Surly Girl Saloon in the Short North, since 2001, and she plans to open a fourth by mid-July. She pays employees above minimum wage and provides them the same health and life insurance she arranged for herself.

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Taverns fuel owner's love: civic involvement

The thing about Elizabeth Lessner is, she cares. And when she cares, she acts. 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.

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