In 2017, she was included in Time magazine's "Top 100 Most Influential People of the Year" for her contributions in the culinary world and her focus on local wealth creation through agronomy.

[3] That same year, she got her first kitchen job — making meals for the priests in the rectory of the church across from her family's home.

"[3] Lynch started as a waitress at Boston's St. Botolph Club at age 15, which was then led by chef Mario Bonello.

[2] In the early 1990s, she accepted her first executive chef's job at Rocco's, an Italian restaurant in Boston's theatre district.

9 Park (a Brahmin Beacon Hill standard), Sportello (a date-night pasta place), Drink (a craft-cocktail bar), B&G Oysters (a seafood restaurant), the Butcher Shop (a meat counter and café), Menton (a fine-dining establishment) and Stir (an open demonstration kitchen where she offers classes).

An initiative by Lynch and her employees in 2011 promoted healthy and sustainable eating habits in at-risk schools in Boston.

Yeaw had joined a class action lawsuit accusing Lynch of withholding tips.

In April 2017, Lynch released a memoir titled "Out of Line, A Life playing with Fire".