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D.Z. Akin's Delicatessen is a New York-style Jewish deli and restaurant in San Diego, California. [1] It was opened in 1980 by Zvika and Debbie Akin. [2] They are known for their "fresser" sandwich, a Yiddish term for "one who eats." It has 16 slices of pastrami, turkey, corned beef, roast beef, and others with cheese and tomato on rye bread. [3]
Oscar's was founded by husband-and-wife team Oscar and Pat Sarkisian in 1991. [3] The first location opened in Carmel Mountain Ranch, San Diego. [4]In May 2000, Sizzler International announced it would purchase a 82% stake in the Oscar's chain for $21 million in cash and stock.
In 2003 Yum! acquired the Pasta Bravo concept from Pasta Bravo, Inc. for $5 million ($8.3 million today), intending to pair it with Pizza Hut. [2] The first freestanding Pizza Hut/PastaBravo was opened in Clarksville, Tennessee by franchisee Carreca Enterprises Inc. [3] After the deal with Yum!, the Pasta Bravo chain was closed within eight years.
The first menu, including the famous BBQ Chicken Pizza, was developed by Ed LaDou, then the pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant. CPK became an immediate success, and the company expanded throughout Southern California. By 1992, there were 26 CPKs. [12] Flax and Rosenfield served as co-CEO and co-chairmen of CPK from 1985 through to ...
Daphne's California Greek continued their re-branding effort under William Trefethen group for about four years before suddenly selling the company to a Chicago investment group named Victory Park Capital. [6] In early 2024, all remaining locations in Orange County and San Diego County closed. As of April 2024, only six locations remain; five ...
The Kitchen received its first Michelin star on June 3, 2019, becoming the first Michelin-starred restaurant in Sacramento. [2] The USA Today in August 2019 ranked it thirtieth out of its top thirty restaurants in the US, reviewed by 24/7 Wall St. [15] As of September 2021, The Kitchen remains the only Michelin-starred restaurant in the city. [16]
California-style pizza with greens, egg, bacon, and garden vegetables. In 1985, LaDou helped two inexperienced lawyer-restaurateurs, Richard L. Rosenfeld and Larry S. Flax, start a new restaurant concept, California Pizza Kitchen (also known as "CPK"). He brought them many of Spago's recipes, which he had carefully saved. [6]
The term "California cuisine" arose as a result of culinary movements in the last decades of the 20th century and is not to be confused with the traditional foods of California. California fusion cuisine has been influenced by French cuisine, American cuisine, Italian cuisine, Mexican cuisine, Chinese cuisine, among other food cultures.