California Pizza Kitchen Opening in Houston's Memorial City Mall; ESCAPE Family Resource Center to Benefit from Charity Day.News Editors/Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003 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, , Inc. (Nasdaq:CPKI CPKI California Pizza Kitchen, Inc ), a leading casual dining restaurant chain and home of the Original BBQ BBQ barbecue Chicken pizza, made to order pastas, creative salads, soups, sandwiches and desserts, will open its second restaurant in Houston on Tuesday, November 11th. The restaurant is located in the revitalized Memorial City Mall  The introduction of this article is too short.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, it should be expanded. , accessible from I-10 West and Gessner Road. Following a long-standing tradition of charitable giving in a falling inwards; a collapse. See also: Giving the communities it serves, California Pizza Kitchen (CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. ) will celebrate the grand opening of its new West Houston location by donating 100% of pizza sales on Monday, Nov. 17, to ESCAPE Family Resource Center. "ESCAPE's mission is to educate families in crisis," said Larry Flax, co-founder and co-CEO of California Pizza Kitchen. "We are pleased to donate funds for programs that educate and strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect," said Flax. Long-time ESCAPE volunteers Peggy and Kerry Mazoch will co-chair the charity day benefiting the private, non-profit agency founded in Houston in 1983. The new restaurant is about 5,000 square feet and has a dining capacity of 162 including counter seats and 18 on the patio. CPK is near the new Memorial City ice skating ice skating, gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates. Skating as a Sport Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice) has developed complex/hockey arena opening soon in the mall's new West End. Designed in CPK contemporary decor, the new restaurant has light woods, creative pizza box art on the walls and an open-style kitchen encouraging guests to watch pizzas bake while cooks assemble fresh pastas and salads. The General Manager of the new location is Alfredo Alatorre, who has been with CPK in Houston for more than 10 years at the Post Oak Plaza location. Hours of operations are Monday - Thursday, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The chain operates 165 restaurants of which 134 are company owned and 31 operate under franchise or license agreements. For a complete menu and store locations, see www.cpk.com. |
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