California Pizza Kitchen Opens First Restaurant in Minnesota on July 23; Pizza Sales from August 6 to Benefit Children's HeartLink.Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2002 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 ), a leading casual dining restaurant chain and home of the Original BBQ BBQ barbecue Chicken pizza and many other innovative hearth-baked pizzas, creative pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches, will open its first full-service Minnesota restaurant at Southdale Shopping Center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in Edina on Tuesday, July 23, 2002. To celebrate the opening, California Pizza Kitchen (CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. ) will donate 100% of all pizza sales on Tuesday, August 6, 2002 to benefit Children's HeartLink. "What a simple and enjoyable way to make a difference in the life of a child," said Children's HeartLink President Claudia Liebrecht. "By eating slices of pizza, people are helping to save children's lives. Children's HeartLink is honored to benefit from California Pizza Kitchen's generous introduction into the community." Children's HeartLink, founded in Minneapolis in 1969, is an international medical charity dedicated to the treatment and prevention of heart disease in needy children. Children's HeartLink works in partnership with hospitals in developing countries to provide surgery, education and training for medical professionals, technical assistance, and rheumatic fever rheumatic fever (r  măt`ĭk), systemic inflammatory disease, extremely variable in its manifestation, severity, duration, and aftereffects. prevention programs. "As newcomers to the Twin Cities' community, we're excited to showcase and assist Children's HeartLink -- an organization that does very important work for kids," said Fred Hipp, CPK 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. . Customers at the new Southdale CPK can expect the same friendly open-style kitchen, light woods and colorful pizza box art on the walls -- all signatures of the California Pizza Kitchen contemporary decor. The restaurant, located on the first level next to MegaStar Cinemas 16, is just over 5,000 square feet with almost 180 seats. California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The restaurant features hearth-baked pizzas, pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches. The chain operates 138 restaurants of which 107 are company-owned, and 31 operate under franchise or license agreements. The California Pizza Kitchen web site is www.cpk.com. Hours for the Edina CPK are: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. |
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