Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (8420 Market Street) (Q1914) : Difference between revisions

Adding to the chain gang: Restaurant review: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (madison.com, 6 Feb 2005)

Capital Times review of Boston's the Gourmet Pizza, 8420 Market St., Middleton, open since shortly before Christmas 2004 (CT, 21 Jan 2005, p. 14)

located at

8420 Market Street

2 references

Adding to the chain gang: Restaurant review: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (madison.com, 6 Feb 2005)

Capital Times review of Boston's the Gourmet Pizza, 8420 Market St., Middleton, open since shortly before Christmas 2004 (CT, 21 Jan 2005, p. 14)

ownership type

franchise

2 references

Adding to the chain gang: Restaurant review: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (madison.com, 6 Feb 2005)

Capital Times review of Boston's the Gourmet Pizza, 8420 Market St., Middleton, open since shortly before Christmas 2004 (CT, 21 Jan 2005, p. 14)

service format

dine-in restaurant

2 references

Adding to the chain gang: Restaurant review: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (madison.com, 6 Feb 2005)

Capital Times review of Boston's the Gourmet Pizza, 8420 Market St., Middleton, open since shortly before Christmas 2004 (CT, 21 Jan 2005, p. 14)

phone number

824-9999

2 references

Adding to the chain gang: Restaurant review: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (madison.com, 6 Feb 2005)

Capital Times review of Boston's the Gourmet Pizza, 8420 Market St., Middleton, open since shortly before Christmas 2004 (CT, 21 Jan 2005, p. 14)

December 2004

1 reference

Capital Times review of Boston's the Gourmet Pizza, 8420 Market St., Middleton, open since shortly before Christmas 2004 (CT, 21 Jan 2005, p. 14)

shortly before Christmas

December 2004

date basis

stated by source

2 references

Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating (WSJ, 26 Dec 2004, p. 21)

Boston's the Gourmet Pizza advertisement: grand opening, Middleton (CT, 23 Dec 2004, p. 52)

December 2004

12 December 2004

18 December 2004

1 reference

Boston's Pizza opens at Greenway (CT, 18 Dec 2004, p. 26)

attested status

6 February 2005

1 reference

Adding to the chain gang: Restaurant review: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza (madison.com, 6 Feb 2005)

15 December 2005

1 reference

Sal's Pizzeria helps a family tradition grow (madison.com, 15 Dec 2005)

planned

25 August 2004

1 reference

Greenway Station getting Boston's Pizza (CT, 25 Aug 2004, p. 36)

planned

22 September 2004

1 reference

Business openings: Boston's the Gourmet Pizza and Sports Bar, Middleton (WSJ, 22 Sep 2004, p. 24)

23 December 2004

1 reference

Boston's the Gourmet Pizza advertisement: grand opening, Middleton (CT, 23 Dec 2004, p. 52)

26 December 2004

1 reference

Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating (WSJ, 26 Dec 2004, p. 21)

planned

7 November 2004

1 reference

Boston's the Gourmet Pizza & Sports Bar now hiring — Grand Opening Nov. 30th (WSJ, 7 Nov 2004, p. 140)

18 December 2004

1 reference

Boston's Pizza opens at Greenway (CT, 18 Dec 2004, p. 26)

13 December 2009

1 reference

Display ad: Boston's The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant & Sports Bar — 'Eat. Laugh. Share.' (Greenway Station, Middleton) (WSJ, 13 Dec 2009, p. 470)

closed

15 July 2010

1 reference

Table Talk: Mount Horeb now has a Pizza Extreme, at 1200 Highway 151 in a former Pizza Pit; the chain's other stores listed (CT, 15 Jul 2010, p. 7)

closed

14 September 2010

1 reference

Boston's location finder: Wisconsin is no longer among the states listed (Internet Archive capture; also absent 2010-10-18, 2011-01-22 and 2011-05-05) (bostons.com, 14 Sep 2010)

research note

One of two Boston's in Wisconsin in 2005 (the other in Eau Claire): a smoking sports bar and a family dining room with an open kitchen; 25-plus pizzas (Zorba the Greek, Rustic Italian, spicy perogy) and pastas.

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Ground broken Aug. 25, 2004 for a 7,000-sq-ft restaurant and sports bar with a 70-seat patio (Engineered Construction of Verona); 'opened its first local franchise in Middleton about two weeks ago' on Dec. 26, 2004 — grand-opening ads Dec. 23. Owner Rick Horstman planned another in Green Bay and two more around the Beltline by 2006.

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A grand opening was advertised for Nov. 30, 2004 while hiring from a job trailer on the site; the restaurant actually opened in the week of Dec. 13–18, 2004 with 300 seats and more than 120 employees, the first of 14 Boston's planned for the upper Midwest by franchisee Rick Horstman's Advantage Control Company.

2 references

Boston's the Gourmet Pizza & Sports Bar now hiring — Grand Opening Nov. 30th (WSJ, 7 Nov 2004, p. 140)

Boston's Pizza opens at Greenway (CT, 18 Dec 2004, p. 26)

Closed in the first half of 2010: advertising on Dec. 13, 2009; 'recently lost', for sale and phone disconnected by July 15, 2010; gone from bostons.com's state list between the July 24 and Sept. 14, 2010 captures. Google's 'closed 2020' is the Waunakee Boston's (2019–Sept. 2020), a different store.

2 references

Table Talk: Mount Horeb now has a Pizza Extreme, at 1200 Highway 151 in a former Pizza Pit; the chain's other stores listed (CT, 15 Jul 2010, p. 7)

Boston's location finder: Wisconsin is no longer among the states listed (Internet Archive capture; also absent 2010-10-18, 2011-01-22 and 2011-05-05) (bostons.com, 14 Sep 2010)

Wild Bull All American Pub and Grill, run by former Boston's operating partner Joe Burdick, took the building ('the old Boston Pizza') about the turn of 2011 and itself closed in 2011; the site is now Market West Apartments (built 2018).

4 references

Help wanted: 'Opening Soon — Wild Bull All American Pub and Grill', 8420 Market St., Middleton, '(The old Boston Pizza)' (WSJ, 14 Nov 2010, p. 103)

Restaurant review of Wild Bull, 8420 Market St., Middleton (608-203-8420): 'the restaurant which preceded Wild Bull' was Boston's; general manager Joe Burdick had been an operating partner in the Middleton Boston's and car… (WSJ, 17 Apr 2011, p. 57)

Amid 2011's openings and closings, Madison restaurants delivered some pretty impressive food (Isthmus, 29 Dec 2011)

Market West Apartments, 8420 Market St., Middleton: built 2018, 240 units (Point2Homes, 23 Oct 2026)

December 2004

1 reference

Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating (WSJ, 26 Dec 2004, p. 21)

unknown value

13 December 2009

15 July 2010

4 references

Display ad: Boston's The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant & Sports Bar — 'Eat. Laugh. Share.' (Greenway Station, Middleton) (WSJ, 13 Dec 2009, p. 470)

still advertising

Table Talk: Mount Horeb now has a Pizza Extreme, at 1200 Highway 151 in a former Pizza Pit; the chain's other stores listed (CT, 15 Jul 2010, p. 7)

'The Madison area recently lost two restaurants. Boston's Restaurant and Sports Bar, in Greenway Station in Middleton, has sprouted a For Sale sign and its phone is disconnected'

Boston's location finder: the list of states still includes Wisconsin (Internet Archive capture) (bostons.com, 24 Jul 2010)

Wisconsin still on the chain's state list

Boston's location finder: Wisconsin is no longer among the states listed (Internet Archive capture; also absent 2010-10-18, 2011-01-22 and 2011-05-05) (bostons.com, 14 Sep 2010)