California Pizza Kitchen Opening in Stonebriar Centre.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000 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 ) will open its fourth Metroplex casual dining restaurant Nov. 24 in Stonebriar Centre, the celebrated new north Dallas fashion mall in the Frisco-Plano corridor. One day's pizza sales will be donated to the Plano Symphony Orchestra on Monday, Dec. 4. Fred Hipp, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , said that the new CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. is "ideally located near neighborhoods where many of our customers live who patronize pa·tron·ize tr.v. pa·tron·ized, pa·tron·iz·ing, pa·tron·iz·es 1. To act as a patron to; support or sponsor. 2. To go to as a customer, especially on a regular basis. 3. our other restaurants in the Metroplex." He added: "They will be glad to find their favorites from the Original BBQ BBQ barbecue Chicken Pizza to our famous Key Lime Pie Key lime pie is a dessert made of key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust. The pie is topped with meringue, then baked until the meringue is a golden brown.[1] Some key lime pies use other types of whipped toppings or none at all. as well as a broad selection of distinctive pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches." CPK is located on the second level, just to the left of the main entrance to the Centre and next to Barnes & Noble. The restaurant is 4,888 square feet with indoor seating for 158 and additional patio seating. Customers can expect the same exhibition kitchen with open flame ovens for hearth-baked pizza, light woods, bright yellow ceramic tiles and colorful pizza box art on the walls -- all signatures of the California Pizza Kitchen contemporary decor. Doug Hanna, a long-time CPK general manager in Dallas, will be general manager of the new Stonebriar Centre restaurant. Kendall Spriggs is the regional director. "The Centre is so spectacular with its steel beams supporting skylights and windows atop angled walls, we expect many visitors, especially during the holiday season," said Hipp. Other CPK restaurants in the Metroplex are in Preston Center at 8411 Preston Road; in Prestonwood Creek at 5505 Beltline Road, and in Grapevine at 1051 State Highway 114. California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The full-service restaurants feature an imaginative line of hearth-baked pizzas and a broad selection of distinctive pastas, salad, soups and sandwiches. The chain operates, licenses or franchises 111 restaurants of which 80 are company-owned and 31 operate under franchise or license agreements. California Pizza Kitchen can be found on the World Wide Web at www.cpk.com. |
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