When Jonathan Ith walked into the DeSoto Square Mall Chick-fil-A for his first shift as a team member on March 7, 1989, he didn’t know he was beginning a chapter that would help define his life in the U.S. Immigrating to Bradenton from Cambodia at age 11 in 1981 after spending time in a refugee camp, he worked his way up through Chick-fil-A and accomplished his American dream. “If you work hard and put your mind into whatever you want, you will …