California Pizza Kitchen Opens in Florida Mall; CPK to Donate 100% of Pizza Sales -- September 24th -- to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women.Business Editors ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 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), home of the Original BBQ Chicken pizza, will open its first Orlando area restaurant at Florida Mall on September 18, 2002. Following a long-standing tradition of charitable giving in the communities it serves, CPK will celebrate its newest Florida location by donating 100% of pizza sales on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 to the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children The Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a pediatrics hospital located in Orlando, Florida, United States. A part of the Orlando Regional Healthcare System and supported by the Arnold Palmer Medical Center Foundation, it is located on the campus of Orlando Regional Medical Center & Women, part of Orlando Regional Healthcare Orlando Regional Healthcare is a system of non-profit hospitals serving the Greater Orlando area. There are nine hospitals in the system in six locations. The headquarters for the system are located on the campus of Orlando Regional Medical Center south of Downtown Orlando, . "Strong community support from fund-raising efforts like the debut celebration of California Pizza Kitchen really makes a difference...it is what helps us continue to deliver leading edge medical care and expand much-needed services for children and women," said John Bozard, president, Orlando Regional Healthcare Foundation. California Pizza Kitchen will be located at 8001 South Orange Blossom Trail O. B. T. is a major highway that runs north-south through the Orlando, Florida area. The northern terminus occurs at the the Orange / Lake County line near Mt. Dora, Florida, though the road continues to the North as US-441. , next to Nordstrom in the new wing of the Florida Mall. The newest CPK will have 5,000 square feet of dining -- will seat 157 guests and feature an exhibition kitchen, light woods and colorful pizza box art on the walls -- all signatures of the California Pizza Kitchen contemporary decor. Lunch and dinner will be served daily, Monday-Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. California Pizza Kitchen 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, licenses or franchises 141 restaurants of which 109 are company-owned and 32 operate under franchise or licensee agreements. The California Pizza Kitchen website is www.cpk.com. Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women (www.arnoldpalmerhospital.org), part of Orlando Regional Healthcare, is a 281-bed facility that is dedicated exclusively to serving the special needs of children and women with 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. , obstetric, neonatal intensive care, gynecology, labor and delivery services. Since 1989, nearly 90,000 babies have been born at Arnold Palmer Hospital. Orlando Regional Healthcare (www.orlandoregional.org), established in 1918, is a 1,870-bed private, not-for-profit organization that serves more than 540,000 Central Florida residents and 4,500 international patients annually. As a community-owned organization, Orlando Regional -- named one of the nation's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. -- reinvests its profits into many one-of-a-kind, specialized services like Central Florida's only Level 1 trauma center level 1 trauma center Emergency care A hospital equiped to handle any level of severity of trauma, and has a trauma surgeon on-site 24/7 and an OR ready at all times for trauma cases. See Trauma center. and statutory teaching hospital. The Florida Mall, a super regional enclosed shopping center anchored by Burdines, Dillards, JC Penney's, Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the elite luxury department store market with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New and Sears, and featuring more than 250 stores, is located at 8001 S. Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, at the corner of South Orange Blossom Trail (17/92/441) and Sand Lake Road in Orlando, FL. |
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