{"id":165658,"date":"2020-12-24T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=165658"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:42:08","slug":"uconn-magazine-coffee-cubanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/12\/uconn-magazine-coffee-cubanos\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Coffee and Cubanos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breno Donatti \u201914 (BGS) met his wife, Jeanette, 11 years ago in a UConn-style meet-cute \u2014 they were both grabbing coffee in the Starbucks in Ferguson Library. Lucky thing, too, because back then Donatti barely had time to look up from his books; he was carrying a full load of courses at UConn Stamford while also running a farm-to-table restaurant. \u201cI felt a bit like Superman,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Donatti\u2019s love for the restaurant industry \u2014 everything from fine dining to beach shacks \u2014 is part of the reason he ended up at UConn. \u201cWhen I moved to the U.S. from Brazil at age 18, I began working in a pizza place in Greenwich, and I loved the pace. It\u2019s never stopping.\u201d But it turned out Donatti was not actually Superman, and full-time school mixed with full-time work proved just a little too much. \u201cIt was the first time I had to withdraw from a course in my life,\u201d Donatti says, \u201cand also my first realization that I can\u2019t do everything.\u201d Lesson learned: Sometimes you have to sharpen your focus on the things that matter. That day in the library, Donatti focused on Jeannette.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2020\/10\/16\/coffee-and-cubanos\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breno Donatti \u201914 (BGS) found a way to feed his neighbors and boost his restaurant business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":165659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2235,102],"tags":[2254,2253],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-165658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","tag-alumni","tag-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 14:11:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165661,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165658\/revisions\/165661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/165659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=165658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=165658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}