UConn Magazine: Good Taste

'We feel very much a part of UConn'

One of the owners of Square Peg Pizza poses in a restaurant.

(Peter Morenus / UConn Photo)

Carla (Maffe) Boudreau ’92 (CLAS) likes to tell everyone that when she met her future husband, Todd Boudreau ’93 (CLAS), he swept her off her feet. They both lived in Alumni Quad at the time. “He was running late for rugby practice and knocked me down,” she says.

Todd and Carla are co-owners with her brother Jay Maffe ’94 (BUS) of Square Peg Pizzeria in Downtown Storrs. Jay and Carla, who grew up in Hartford, say they’ve loved UConn forever but as students 30 years ago would never have imagined what it’s become today.

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