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California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) is an American casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, United States. [4] [5] California Pizza Kitchen introduced and popularized BBQ Chicken Pizza. [6]
[2] [3] Ed LaDou was the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in Los Angeles. [4] He also developed the first menu for the American chain restaurant California Pizza Kitchen. [4] The invention of the California-style pizza begins with a Berkeley, California, pizza restaurant, Chez Panisse, and its owner, Alice Waters. [5]
California Pizza Kitchen Mushroom Pepperoni Sausage Pizza Nutrition (per slice) : 200 calories, 8 g fat (3.5 g saturated fat), 500 mg sodium, 23 g carbs (1 g fiber, 1 g sugar), 9 g protein
In 2011, it acquired California Pizza Kitchen. [10] The company declared bankruptcy in July 2020, seeking to reduce its debt load and close locations, during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. [11] On October 9, 2012, Wolverine World Wide, Golden Gate Capital and Blum Capital acquired Collective Brands. [12]
Larry Flax, co-founder of the California Pizza Kitchen restaurant chain, is asking $48.5 million for his European-inspired showplace in Beverly Park.
California Pizza Kitchen (CPKI) is hungry for cash. The company said Monday it's "exploring its financial and strategic alternatives." That means it's seeking to restructure its capital or find a ...
Both Wolfgang Puck and California Pizza Kitchen were instrumental in turning California-style pizza from a gourmet food trend to a mass consumer food product. Based on the success of his pizzas and his status as a celebrity chef, Puck opened a series of restaurants, ranging from high-end clones of Spago to convenience chains for airports and mall food courts.
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