ROSIE'S RESTAURANT - Key Persons

Rosie came to town in her senior year of high school when her folks bought a place on Maple Road. She entered the restaurant business washing dishes at the Tamworth Inn. Soon she was cooking breakfast and Sunday brunch there. When the new owners' chef didn't show up for the Barnstormer season, Rosie was declared dinner chef. At season's end she went to work for John Brown at the Mountaineer Restaurant and stayed on to buy him out two years later. Rosie's Restaurant was hatched and the rest is history. Rosie will often be found covered in flour, pulling cards from her favorite cookbooks, and offering baked goods to customers to taste-test. These special treats and large portion sizes originate from an impoverished upbringing, and Rosie's devotion to ensure that no one leaves hungry. As her business continues to grow, Rose knows that happiness is truly homemade. The ingredients Rose Scolaro added to her restaurant in 1986 were simple: one small town of Tamworth, New Hampshire, one aspiration to raise three sons, and one motive to provide people with a quality home cooked meal. Mixed together with over 30 years of love, humor, and immense dedication, Rose created a recipe of success she never thought possible. Thirty years of waking up at 4:00am, firing up the grills, brewing coffee, boiling endless pots of potatoes, and hand-slicing homemade bread, Rosie will gladly serve her friends and community before the sun wakes up.