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'''5706 Raymond Rd.''' is in the Meadowood Shopping Center on the southwest side. It is where [[Pizza Pit]] and [[Pizza Extreme]] came together.

==Timeline==
* By January 2000: [[Pizza Pit]], one of the seven company stores that closed on January 19, 2000<ref name="wsj-2000-01-22-p39">Gribble, R. A. (2000, January 22). "Pizza Pit closes six stores." ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 39. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/400896178/ 400896178].</ref>. It was to reopen under new owners on February 14<ref name="wsj-2000-01-29-p39">Gribble, R. A. (2000, January 29). "3 Pizza Pit stores to reopen." ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 39. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/400919775/ 400919775].</ref>.
* March 2000: advertised as [[Pizza Extreme]]'s "new westside location opening soon"<ref name="wsj-2000-03-26-p95">(2000, March 26). Pizza Extreme and Pizza Pit help-wanted advertisements. ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 95. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407212072/ 407212072].</ref>.
* 2009: Pizza Extreme's main dine-in restaurant, newly remodeled, and "both a Pizza Pit and a Pizza Extreme"<ref name="wsj-2009-09-27-p52">Troller, S. (2009, September 27). [https://madison.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/extreme-foresight-for-local-pizza-chain/article_49ba4b70-a203-5014-ab84-3f1931cf0101.html "Extreme foresight for local pizza chain."] ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 52. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407707812/ 407707812].</ref>.
* January 2017: Los Atlantes, a Mexican restaurant, opened here. "There was once a sit-down Pizza Extreme in the same location"<ref name="mc-2017-01-30-los-atlantes">Kalk Derby, S. (2017, January 30). [https://madison.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/restaurants/article_26236e4c-ff4f-5d12-8f19-79493f39d5f7.html "Food-starved Meadowood gets a Mexican restaurant."] ''madison.com''.</ref>.

==Trivia==
* [[Jim Meyer]], the owner of Pizza Extreme, began his career in 1979 at a Pizza Pit in the same shopping center. The 2009 article places that store "a few doors" from the Pizza Extreme, so the Pizza Pit and the Pizza Extreme may have been neighboring storefronts rather than the same one<ref name="wsj-2009-09-27-p52" />.

==See also==
* [[Item:Q371|5706 Raymond Road in the Madison Pizza Wiki database]]

==Notes==
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