MEET OUR TEAM

Donald Haynes
General Manager, Cedars Woodfire Grill

Years at Cooper: Started in October 2017

Hometown: Columbus, Ohio

Previous work experience prior to coming to Cooper: I worked for six years at BRIO Tuscan Grille, and before that, three years at Seasons 52.

What is your favorite form of physical activity? Bicycling.

Best advice you’ve ever received? Ask questions without pride getting in the way. “It’s better to be stupid for one moment, than stupid for a lifetime.”

If you could have a super power, what would it be? Levitate/fly.

If you had an extra hour of free time each day, how would you spend it? Dreaming about cars!

How would you like to be remembered? As a superior motivator of people and humanitarian.

What is your hidden talent? Singer. Now that I have Sundays with my family to worship I am preparing to try out for choir.

What product could you not live without? Bread.

If you could have any pet, what would you choose? My beautiful male boxer, Ali.

What is your guilty pleasure? Pizza and submarine sandwiches!

What is on your iPod or on your radio right now? Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience.”

What magazine do/would you subscribe to? Car and Driver, Motor Trend and Popular Science.

If you could go to one concert, whose would it be? The Beatles in their prime and Chris Brown in his prime.

Where is the most interesting place you’ve lived? South Florida—it’s paradise.