- June 20, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Barbara Ann Megyeri was a single mom with four children when, partly inspired by John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High,” she moved in 1978 from Colorado Springs from Michigan.
In the Springs, she opened Bambino’s Pizzeria, which grew to four locations and earned her the name “Mama Bambino.” She died last summer at the age of 80, but the family business lives on and is transitioning to a third generation.
Kevin Megyeri was 16 — halfway through his junior year of high school — when his mom moved him and his siblings to Colorado. They would all grow up with Bambino’s — “each of the kids pretty much had their own location,” he says — with the Bambino’s Italian Eatery and Sports Bar at Circle Drive and Platte Avenue, run by Kevin and wife Suzette, outlasting the other sites.
They closed that longtime location, in leased space on the second floor of the now-demolished Tower Plaza strip center, in 2015 and reopened with…
