California Pizza Kitchen Brightens Children's Lives at the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital; ``Starlight Day at CPK'' Makes a Difference for Ill Children.Business/News/Lifestyle Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen (NASDAQ: CPKI, known within the food industry as CPK) is a 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, (Nasdaq:CPKI CPKI California Pizza Kitchen, Inc ) is teaming up with the Starlight Foundation to make a difference in the communities where CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. does business. On Thursday, February 8, Santa Barbara CPK employees will donate all their tips from the day to fund a Starlight Fun Center for the children at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Starlight Fun Centers are high tech mobile activity centers which provide much needed diversionary entertainment to hospitalized children. Not only will kids get a Fun Center, but CPK will deliver pizzas to all the children at Cottage Hospital on Monday, February 5. CPK's general manager George Loren and his employees from the Paseo Nuevo Mall location will visit the kids at 11 a.m., enjoy delicious CPK pizzas, and spread a little laughter around the children's wing of Cottage Hospital. In the past year, the CPK in Santa Barbara has supported the Unity Shop, the Muscular Dystrophy Association The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is an organization founded in 1950 which combats muscular dystrophy and diseases of the nervous system and muscular system in general by funding research, providing medical and community services, and educating health professionals , and Multiple Sclerosis. Cottage Hospital is the first beneficiary of "Starlight Day at CPK," and California Pizza Kitchen plans to hold additional "Starlight Days at CPK" around the country. "It is a pleasure to work with great employees who enjoy reaching out to the community," said Sarah Goldsmith, Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for the international casual dining chain. "CPK works hard to make a difference in every community and it is especially rewarding to work with children and see the smiles on their faces." The Cottage Children's Hospital, Santa Barbara, is a place where families can rely on premier quality pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. services. It has earned a reputation for excellence that continues to draw some of the nation's top pediatric specialists. California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The restaurant features hearth-baked pizzas, salads, soups and sandwiches. The chain operates, licenses or franchises 112 restaurants of which 82 are company owned, and 30 operate under franchise or license agreements. The restaurants feature an imaginative line of innovative premium pizzas including the Original BBQ BBQ barbecue Chicken pizza. The California Pizza Kitchen web site is www.cpk.com. |
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