California Pizza Kitchen to Open First Ohio Location At Easton Town Center June 5; Donates Proceeds of June 11 Pizza Sales to Adventures for Wish Kids.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2001

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 ), home of hearth-baked pizzas, pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches, will open the doors of its first Ohio location in Greater Columbus at Easton Town Center Easton Town Center ("Easton") is a large mixed-use center in Columbus, Ohio, USA. It is designed to look like a classic American main street, with public spaces, fountains, a street grid, and metered storefront parking. on June 5, 2001.

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To celebrate the opening in Columbus, CPK will raise awareness and funds for Adventures for Wish Kids on June 11. On this day, CPK will donate proceeds from all its pizza sales to this nonprofit organization. "We are most grateful to California Pizza Kitchen for supporting our kids and their families. We are excited to welcome them to Columbus and thankful for their willingness to help children in our community that are dealing with life threatening illnesses," said Jeffrey Damron, Executive Director of Adventures for Wish Kids.

"We have built our reputation being a good business and a good neighbor, and hope that the community will support our day of fundraising for Adventures for Wish Kids," 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 CPK. "Columbus is such a dynamic and growing city, we're pleased to make our debut in the heart of Ohio."

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 116 restaurants of which 85 are company owned, and 31 operate under franchise or license agreements. The restaurants feature an imaginative line of innovative premium pizzas including the Original BBQ BBQ barbecue Chicken pizza. The California Pizza Kitchen website is www.cpk.com.

Adventures for Wish Kids is a Columbus-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing year round fun filled and supportive group activities for children with life threatening illnesses and their families. Adventures for Wish Kids currently has nearly 1,000 children enrolled in its programs that range from trips to COSI COSI Center Of Science and Industry (Columbus, OH, USA)
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COSI Closeout System Installation (NASA) , Paramount's Kings Island, Magic Mountain and the Newport Aquarium to holiday celebrations and basketball clinics with Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. players. The Adventures for Wish Kids website is www.afwkids.org.

Easton Town Center is located at I-270 and Easton Way in the northeast quadrant of Columbus, Ohio. Developed by Steiner + Associates, The Georgetown Company, The Limited, Inc. and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the center opened in 1999 and currently houses over 70 tenants and draws more than one million visitors each month. Coming in Fall 2001, Easton Town Center Phase II, anchored by Nordstrom, Lazarus and The Container Store, will provide an additional 70 specialty shops and restaurants.

For additional information, call Sarah Goldsmith at 310/342-4656 or Lisa Hinson at 614/416-7100.

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