Rachel Titcomb hopes things will be great when you’re at her new restaurant, Petula’s in Southie

In middle school, she was a dishwasher at a local pizza place; she went on to become a corporate recruiter and found herself dreading going to work. Instead, she preferred her second job, as a server at Lincoln Tavern in Southie. She eventually left corporate recruiting for good to become a general manager at Loco, Fat Baby, and Nautilus. This is her first restaurant, not far from the home she shares with two French Bulldogs. South Boston’s Rachel Titcomb, 36, named her new all-day restaurant, Petula’s, after British songstress Petula...