John Rivers’ diverse career experience spans two decades and ranges from managing a billion-dollar pharmaceutical distribution operation to opening one of the fastest-growing new restaurants in the southeast with his Texas-inspired 4Rivers Smokehouses in Winter Park, Winter Garden, Longwood, East Orlando, Jacksonville and Gainesville, Florida.
Always evolving, John Rivers hatched a new concept, THE COOP, a southern-inspired, fast-casual concept located at 610 West Morse Boulevard in Winter Park, Florida in April 2014.
Rivers is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Business. He serves on the boards of numerous school and community-based charitable organizations and resides in Winter Park, Fla., with his wife Monica and two children, Jared and Cameron.