ML's Haynes family to open new Tomato Street

Second restaurant to open at Riverpark Square in downtown Spokane

PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter | Last updated Oct 13, 2016 11:41am0

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Shannon and Dean Haynes will soon be pulling down this sign and opening the doors on a second Tomato Street Italian Restaurant in Spokane's River Park Square.

Medical Lake native Dean Haynes could have taken any number of routes in his professional life after graduating from Eastern Washington University over 30 years ago.

Haynes first attended Spokane Falls Community College and then graduated from EWU with marketing, management and computer science degrees in 1985. While in school, he dove into the fast food business by working at Dick's Drive-In, flipping burgers.

But at the insistence of a buddy who told him of an opening in a sit-down establishment, Cyrus O'Leary's, Haynes found both his niche and business success - and has delivered to the Spo...