From Akron, Ohio, Boakye was raised primarily by his grandmother, as his mother worked multiple jobs to support them. He says he took that work ethic to school and receiv...

From there, he bounced from foster home to foster home. He spent 12 years in foster care. It’s a practice he carries over into his chain of restaurants, FK Your Diet. He ...

Since then, he’s served meals to Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presely, but, above all, Aikens says he is “cooking for the people.”He now runs his own restaurant with his wife a...