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Vol. 127, No. 81 Wednesday, January 24, 2018
CSU ANNOUNCES FIRST AMENDMENT WEBSITE PAGE 4
STINE AUSTGULEN’S LONG ROAD TO HARDWOOD SUCCESS PAGE 8
A&C
YOU’LL WANT TO EAT THIS BODY WASH PAGE 14
Robert and Heather Bisetti, former CSU students, have owned Bisetti’s since 1988 when they purchased the restaurant from Robert’s father. However, after 39 years, Bisetti’s will be closing its doors on January 29th. PHOTO BY TONY VILLALOBOS MAY COLLEGIAN
Bisetti’s owners reflect on 42 years of business By Claire Oliver @claire_oliver21
Local businesses have a large impact on communities. They become ingrained into the lives of the people who walk in the door. Bisetti’s, which opened in 1976, has impacted the Fort Collins in many ways,
with Italian family recipes and reliable service for 42 years. After all this time, the restaurant will closes its doors at the end of January. Heather and Robert Bisetti have owned the restaurant at 120 College Ave since 1988 when the couple purchased the restaurant from Robert Bisetti’s parents. Anita Bisetti
and her husband, Bob Bisetti, owned the restaurant from 1979 to 1988, but Bob Bisetti, Robert Bisetti’s dad, has been in the restaurant industry since he was 13-years-old. “My dad had been in the business when he was young, 13 to 27, and he really liked it and thrived in it,” Robert Bisetti said. “But he never
owned a restaurant. He was a waiter, and then he got married and I was born when he was 27 ... This was the first restaurant her ever owned.” Robert Bisetti’s parents are both from Italian backgrounds. Anita Bisetti is a secondgeneration Italian American who’s family hails from Naples, and Bob Bisetti was born in the
Piedmont area of northern Italy by Lake Como. After Robert Bisetti’s parents divorced in 1985, Robert Bisetti dropped out of college to help his mom run the restaurant until 1988 when he and Heather Bisetti purchased it. see BISETTI on page 12 >>