A couple of weeks ago, I bumped into Mary Oreskovich at the grocery store. She owns the Hopscotch Bakery down on Union Ave. here in Pueblo. I’ve known Mary and her husband, Richard Warner, for probably 12 years or so, going back to they days they operated Steel City Diner. Our conversation drifted to Richard’s Bingo Burger restaurant he runs here in town and his expansion into Colorado Springs. Everything was settling nicely up there, she said, after some initial teething pains.

She said Richard was having the Bingo website revamped and wondered if I might be interested in shooting some product for the site. “Certainly,” I said. She said she would pass along my number to Richard’s Springs manager, Cazes Verbois, who does double duty as their web developer.

On Tuesday, Mary, Cazes, and I met at Bingo’s Pueblo restaurant for a photo shoot, where in addition to hamburgers, I shot sauces, salads, milkshakes, and beers. It was a good shoot. Thankfully, nothing dropped or spilled during the fast-paced affair, no simple feat when having to navigate among the employees getting the place prepped for opening.

I think the photos do the product justice. Online reviewers have called Bingo’s burgers  “…delectable. Delicious. Divine.” And they’ve been characterized as  “massive and messy and wonderful, ” as well as a “heart attack on a plate.” The pictures reflect those perspectives. Regardless, it’s hard to dispute that Bingo Burger hamburgers are a rare beast (Disclosure: I’m aligned with the “massive and messy” camp and have a penchant for the Bessemer, shown above).