California Pizza Kitchen is Stocking More Shelves in the Frozen Food Aisle in Denver, Washington D.C. and Baltimore.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2000

California Pizza Kitchen, (Nasdaq:CPKI), an upscale, casual restaurant chain with 113 units nationwide and Kraft Pizza Company, the nation's leading frozen pizza company, will continue the expansion of its line of super premium frozen pizzas in the cities of Denver, CO, Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland.

The product line features seven of the restaurant's most popular gourmet pizzas, including BBQ Chicken, Thai Chicken, Rosemary Potato Chicken, Five Cheese and Tomato, Portobello Mixed Mushroom, Garlic Chicken and Mushroom, Pepperoni and Sausage.

"We are committed to serving unique and delicious pizzas in our restaurants and Kraft combined our creativity with their proprietary self-rising crust technology, manufacturing and marketing expertise to deliver premium quality pizzas that are among the best in the grocer's freezer," said CPK President and CEO Fred Hipp.

Kraft Pizza Company has been manufacturing, distributing and selling California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizza since 1998. In addition to Denver, Washington D.C. and Baltimore, the pizzas are sold in Atlanta, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. The suggested retail price is $4.99.

California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The company's 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 113 restaurants of which 82 are company-owned and 31 operated under franchise or license agreements. California Pizza Kitchen can be found on the World Wide Web at www.cpk.com.

Kraft Pizza Company is an operating unit of Kraft Foods, Inc. and is the nation's largest consumer packaged foods company with $16.7 billion in annual revenue.