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	* ... that during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] a "Stay home! Send pizza!" fund sent Ian's Pizza to hospital workers, and Lucille became the first Madison restaurant to require proof of vaccination? <!-- source: COVID-19 pandemic, Timeline and How pizza places got by -->		* ... that during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] a "Stay home! Send pizza!" fund sent Ian's Pizza to hospital workers, and Lucille became the first Madison restaurant to require proof of vaccination? <!-- source: COVID-19 pandemic, Timeline and How pizza places got by -->
	* ... that [[Clyde’s Pies]] began in 2020 when its founder, who had lost his restaurant job in the pandemic, taught himself pizza from YouTube videos, cutting his first delivery boxes from leftover U-Haul boxes? <!-- source: Clyde’s Pies, intro and History -->		* ... that [[Clyde’s Pies]] began in 2020 when its founder, who had lost his restaurant job in the pandemic, taught himself pizza from YouTube videos, cutting his first delivery boxes from leftover U-Haul boxes? <!-- source: Clyde’s Pies, intro and History -->

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			* ... that Animal Arts Taxidermy, after more than 30 years at [[1511 Williamson Street]], sold the building in March 1999 to Pavlov's Pizza for $65,000? <!-- source: 1511 Williamson Street, Timeline -->
			* ... that when [[Lombardino’s]] opened on University Avenue in 1954, its waitresses wore Sorrento-style dresses and the food came out on a Sicilian cart? <!-- source: Lombardino’s, History -->
			* ... that [[DiSalvo’s Casa di Pizza]] on State Street, which served pizza from 1961 to 1968, also delivered fried chicken anywhere in the city under the name Chicken on Wheels? <!-- source: DiSalvo’s Casa di Pizza, Lead -->
			* ... that [[Pizza Brutta]] on Monroe Street is named for "ugly pizza", chosen because "bella" is overused by Italian restaurants? <!-- source: Pizza Brutta, History -->
			* ... that [[Off the Block]] frozen pizza and salsa are made and sold by teenagers in a Madison youth program, with the profits going back into the program? <!-- source: Off the Block, Lead -->
			* ... that [[Tamarack Pizza\|Tamarack II]], a thin-crust pizzeria in the Brookwood Shopping Center, closed in 1990 after a long-running dispute between its owner and a city council member over adding a full-service bar? <!-- source: Tamarack Pizza, History -->
			* ... that [[Roger Brown]], co-founder of Rocky Rococo, told a reporter in 1992 that he wanted to add ribs to the menu because "Every pizzeria in Chicago serves ribs and I don't know why"? <!-- source: Roger Brown, Trivia -->
			* ... that [[Freaky’s Pizza]] named its Gillman pizza, with bacon, Canadian bacon, pineapple and barbecue sauce, for The Creature from the Black Lagoon? <!-- source: Freaky’s Pizza, Lead -->

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The Main Page's "Did you know?" box shows three of these hooks for a week at a time, picked at random by the DailyFeatures extension (administrators can reorder the queue on [[Special:DailyFeatures]]). Every bullet line below is one hook; anything else on the page is ignored. The facts must appear, with a citation, in the linked article, and hooks don't name private individuals. Add new hooks when you write new articles; the comment after each hook says where the fact comes from.

* ... that [[Joe’s Pizza Pie]] on Regent Street, which advertised "We Specialize In ... PIZZA" in February 1945, is the earliest pizza business found in the Madison papers? 
* ... that when [[The Grotto]] opened on State Street in January 1949 as "the new home of Pizza Pie", the 3 Sisters Dining Room answered within five days that it was "still the home of PIZZA PIE"? 
* ... that the first "pizza" in the Madison papers, in the [[1940s (decade)]], was a 1941 Hollywood column recipe, and a 1945 food column still had to explain that it was "pronounced peet-za"? 
* ... that [[Philadora Pizzeria]], the first Madison business found with "pizzeria" in its name, opened on South Park Street in 1960 and was turned down for a beer license that year? 
* ... that the [[Italian Village]] on State Street, "Recommended by Duncan Hines", introduced "Famous Italian PIZZA" in May 1951, with a pizza for two at $1.75? 
* ... that [[Bunky’s]], the Capadona family's restaurant on Madison's "Spaghetti Corner", served pizza pie just one night a week in 1952 and 1953, Fridays and then Wednesdays? 
* ... that an old menu from [[Pino’s]] at Park and Regent lists a "Giant Party Pizza" of 16 by 24 inches, "5.50 and up", next to a small cheese pizza for 80 cents? 
* ... that [[Amato’s Holiday House]] opened on South Park Street in 1947 as a frozen custard restaurant, sold off its custard equipment in 1951, and by 1958 claimed "Madison's Finest PIZZA"? 
* ... that regular customers of [[The Pizza Oven]] in Monona included Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and other Milwaukee Bucks, and that it stayed open through the ice storm of 1976 and "every blizzard"? 
* ... that [[Dick Domenget]] left a paint roller factory assembly line to help his brothers run The Pizza Oven, and that "On our first night, we made $16"? 
* ... that [[Shakey’s Pizza Parlor]] opened on East Washington Avenue in 1964 with "an authentic English Pub atmosphere" and a menu that ran to Smoked Oyster and Idiot's Delight pizzas? 
* ... that from 1963 into the 1970s three Madison companies ran [[Pizza trucks]] with ovens on board, baking the pizzas on the way to the customer's door? 
* ... that in the first of the [[Daily Cardinal pizza contests]], in 1971, the winning pizza from Gargano's arrived an hour after it was ordered, and was "the best of a poor lot"? 
* ... that after Gargano's won the 1972 round of the [[Daily Cardinal pizza contests]], the Capital Times "screamed payola" because the owner had thrown a party for the Cardinal staff? 
* ... that [[Gargano’s Pizzeria]] advertised that its owner Biagio Gargano "FIRST introduced Pizza in the Pan to Madison" in 1973, a year before Rocky Rococo opened? 
* ... that in March 1966 police used tear gas to flush burglars out of [[Gargano’s Pizzeria]] on State Street? 
* ... that the State Street shop of [[Luigi’s Pizza & Subs]] sold pizza by the slice for 30¢ in 1973, months before Rocky Rococo opened, and in 1975 was "the only union pizza in town"? 
* ... that [[Rocky Rococo]] opened on April 4, 1974, in a Gilman Street building that had been Brown's Restaurant for 36 years, and that one of the new owners happened to be named Brown? 
* ... that about 225 [[Rocky Rococo]] pizzas were pieced together at the 1998 Wisconsin State Fair into a 1,000-pound "World's Largest Wisconsin Cheese Pizza" in the shape of the state? 
* ... that [[Wayne Mosley]], co-founder of Rocky Rococo, won bets and contests as a boy by eating pizza? 
* ... that the first Rocky Rococo, at [[411 West Gilman Street]], closed in 1995 to make room for its founders' first non-pizza venture, a short-lived 1950s-style diner called the Blue Cow? 
* ... that the founders of Rocky Rococo chose Madison for their [[Pan (pizza style)]] pizza partly because its university had many Chicago students, who would know a style "relatively unknown elsewhere"? 
* ... that [[Pizza Pit]] sold more than 800,000 pizzas from its ten Madison outlets in 1984, using 395,000 pounds of cheese and 119,000 pounds of Italian sausage? 
* ... that the [[Pizza Pit]] television jingle, "Yeah, it's the Pit's", was written in the snowy winter of 1978–79 with a model train set and children's voices? 
* ... that [[1401 Emil Street]] was a Pizza Pit for about 41 years, longer than any other address found, and was still answering its 1971 telephone number in 2012? 
* ... that [[Terry Voice]], president of Pizza Pit until 2000, had started in the pizza business in 1964 with the company that became Domino's? 
* ... that [[Pizza Hut]]'s first Madison restaurant, opened on South Park Street in January 1968, was to be the 255th in the chain, with 75 seats and parking for 40 cars? 
* ... that in the [[1980s (decade)]] the Capital Times put area pizza sales at nearly $100 per Dane County resident, and said Madison "eats more pizza per capita than just about any city in the nation"? 
* ... that [[Domino’s Pizza]] was the world's largest pizza chain in 1986 but only third in Madison, with about 8 percent of the market and losses of about $35,000 a month? 
* ... that all six Madison-area [[Little Caesar’s]] stores shut overnight on July 23–24, 1996, and that employees arrived the next morning to find them closed, their paychecks unpaid? 
* ... that the first Madison [[Godfather’s Pizza]] was in a prefabricated metal building on University Avenue that a 1982 newspaper story called "the ugliest building in Mad Town"? 
* ... that [[Iven Pizza]] on Regent Street served East Coast "Greek" pizza in the 1980s, made with white cheddar instead of mozzarella? 
* ... that [[Chuck E. Cheese]] came to Madison in 1982 as ShowBiz Pizza Place, with an animatronic band, and that by 1989 its manager estimated it served about half a million people a year? 
* ... that [[Gino’s]] on State Street registered the name "Stuffed Pizza®" after introducing the dish in the winter of 1978–79 with a "Stuffed Pizza Snow Party" during a January blizzard? 
* ... that on the day the first Madison [[Pizzeria Uno]] opened in March 1985, a reviewer measured the deep-dish crust she had been promised would be up to two inches deep, and found one inch? 
* ... that [[Rozino’s Pizza]] sold slices from a 1963 Chevy bread truck in the downtown parks, so that "a lot of people figured Rozino's didn't really have a location"? 
* ... that [[Jim Meyer]] started at a Pizza Pit in 1979, co-founded Pizza Extreme in 1991, and in 2000 co-headed the investors who bought Pizza Pit's seven Madison company stores? 
* ... that [[Supreme Pizza]] on East Johnson Street offered toppings "from the Twilight Zone" in 1994, sauerkraut, pastrami, tuna and tofu among them, and cactus by 2010? 
* ... that [[912 East Johnson Street]] has held one pizza place after another since 1981, and that Molten Monkey Pizza, opened there in 2024, is the first of them with a bar? 
* ... that [[Pavlov’s Pizza]] opened in 1991 as Pagliai's Pizza, and that its house specialty, Beer Nuggets, was made without beer? 
* ... that [[Gumby’s Pizza]] came to Madison in 1991 from a Florida chain named for a founder's green pants, and sold "probably Madison's only 20-inch pizza"? 
* ... that a [[Falbo Bros Pizzeria]] advertisement reading "At Falbo's, we wash our hands after handling the sausage" was shown on the Tonight Show's "Headlines" segment? 
* ... that [[Sal’s Pizzeria]] on State Street closed for two days in its second week in 1997, after a cooler ruined the dough, "but mainly it was human exhaustion" after 19-hour days? 
* ... that [[Pizza Di Roma]] got its name in 2002 from a temporary banner hung on the former Sal's Pizzeria at 313 State St. to set it apart from the Casa Bianca on Bassett Street? 
* ... that the founders of [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] wrote down 900 possible names before a relative suggested combining their surnames, Glassel and Nicholson? 
* ... that the [[1990s (decade)]] opened with a 1992 count of 74 places to get pizza in the Madison area, among them 11 Pizza Pits, nine Rocky Rococos and seven Pizza Huts? 
* ... that [[Ian's Pizza]] gave away some 56,000 slices to the Capitol protesters of 2011, with orders from all 50 states and more than 50 countries, "including a research station in Antarctica"? 
* ... that [[Cafe Porta Alba]], Madison's first Neapolitan pizzeria, took its name from the first pizzeria in Naples and baked a pizza in 90 seconds in a 3,000-pound wood-fired oven? 
* ... that [[Novanta]] is Italian for "90", the number of seconds a Neapolitan pizza bakes, and that Yelp ranked it 83rd among the top 100 pizza places in the United States and Canada in 2023? 
* ... that [[Nattspil]] opened on King Street in 2004 with no sign, no telephone and no credit cards, and that its owners never settled whether its name is "Nattspil" or "Natt Spil"? 
* ... that [[The Roman Candle Pizza]] was named for the fireworks in a video its founder had shot of his business partner's band? 
* ... that [[Grampa's Pizzeria]] opened in 2013 in the former Grampa's Gun Shop and was named Wisconsin's most romantic restaurant by Yelp in 2023, earning a joke from Seth Meyers on Late Night? 
* ... that [[Lucille]], across the street from the Capitol, makes the crust of its Detroit-style pan pizza with Spotted Cow and has a lounge built into a former bank vault? 
* ... that [[It’s Good for You]] took its name from the first English phrase its Sicilian-born owner learned, and labels its 5,000-pound oven from Naples "THE MICROWAVE"? 
* ... that [[Rossi's Pizza & Vintage Arcade]] in Monona sold a 30-inch pizza, "perhaps the largest in Wisconsin", beside 55 video games at a quarter a play? 
* ... that [[Salvatore's Tomato Pies]] builds its Trenton-style pizzas bottom-up, with the sauce swirled on last, from a family recipe its owner puts at about 100 years old? 
* ... that [[Frozen pizza]] has been sold in Madison groceries since at least the 1950s, and that a 2023 count found close to 50 brands in more than four aisles of freezer cases at one Woodman's? 
* ... that in 1979 Oscar Mayer proposed selling Rocky Rococo's pizzas as [[Frozen pizza]] in grocery stores, and the founders said no because they could not keep the quality in a frozen pie? 
* ... that [[Fraboni’s]] advertised its C.P.W. pizza as "voted best frozen pizza in Wisconsin", adding that the vote was by one of the Frabonis? 
* ... that the founder of [[Angelo’s Pizzeria]] kept a Dickens Village model-railroad display in the restaurant basement, gave the tours himself and gave the nearly $900 a year in donations to charity? 
* ... that the owner of [[Maria’s Pizza & Pasta]] in Oregon still used the cash register he bought in 1978, because "if you change something, it's not the same anymore"? 
* ... that [[Buck’s Pizza]] is carry-out only, "No delivery, no dine-in", and that customers got their first way to eat one sitting down when a tavern across the street began serving it in 2012? 
* ... that in 2010 [[Toppers Pizza]], whose stores stayed open until 3 or 4 a.m., sent little green army men along with its deliveries? 
* ... that the Cottage Grove Road store of [[Papa Murphy’s]] stood at the same address as Madison's first Little Caesar's? 
* ... that [[Marco’s Pizza]] opened in Madison in 2018 beside a Family Video store run by the same company, so that its drivers delivered rental videos along with the pizzas? 
* ... that the most popular dish at [[Zafferano Ristorante]], an Indian–Italian restaurant in Fitchburg, is a butter chicken pizza inspired by a TikTok trend? 
* ... that the [[Greenbush Bar]], in the basement of the Italian Workmen's Club, bakes its pizzas in the old brick oven from Amato's restaurant and keeps its Christmas lights up all year? 
* ... that [[Paisan’s]] won the pizza category of Madison Magazine's Best of Madison poll seven times and the Italian category 16 times, for 53 awards by 2021? 
* ... that during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] a "Stay home! Send pizza!" fund sent Ian's Pizza to hospital workers, and Lucille became the first Madison restaurant to require proof of vaccination? 
* ... that [[Clyde’s Pies]] began in 2020 when its founder, who had lost his restaurant job in the pandemic, taught himself pizza from YouTube videos, cutting his first delivery boxes from leftover U-Haul boxes?

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