California Pizza Kitchen Opens Third Restaurant in Michigan at Laurel Park Place in Livonia; CPK to Donate 100% Pizza Sales on April 29 to Make-A-Wish Foundation.Business Editors LIVONIA, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 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 third Michigan restaurant at Laurel Park Place Laurel Park Place is an enclosed shopping mall located in the city of Livonia, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The mall, which is managed by CBL & Associates Properties, features over 70 restaurants and stores, with Parisian and Von Maur as anchor stores. , Livonia, MI, just west of Detroit on Tuesday, April 23, 2002. To celebrate the opening, California Pizza Kitchen will donate 100 percent of all pizza sales on Monday, April 29th to Make-A-Wish Foundation The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that grants wishes to children (2.5 years to 18 years old) with life-threatening medical conditions. . "We are excited about the opportunity to work with California Pizza Kitchen on the opening of their new restaurant at Laurel Park Place," explained Joe Considine, development manager, Make-A-Wish Foundation(R) of Michigan. "This is a definite win-win for Make-A-Wish Foundation and CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. . We encourage people to participate in this event which will help us help our kids." Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan fulfills the fondest wishes of children through the age of 18 who are suffering with a life-threatening illness to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. "California Pizza Kitchen is delighted that our fundraising effort will help Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan move towards the vision that every eligible child facing a life-threatening illness in the state of Michigan will receive a wish that is unparalleled," said 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. of California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. The popular restaurant chain will be located at Six Mile and I-275, just west of Detroit. The new CPK will have 4,769 square feet with 156 seats and will feature an exhibition kitchen, light wood interior, and colorful pizza box art on the walls, all signatures of the California Pizza Kitchen contemporary decor. 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 131 restaurants of which 102 are company owned, and 29 operate under franchise or license agreements. The California Pizza Kitchen website is www.cpk.com. Laurel Park Place is just west of Metro Detroit, just east of I-275 and on the north side of Six Mile Road. |
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