Temecula Will Be Home to California Pizza Kitchen's 150th Restaurant; Arts Council of Temecula Valley to Benefit From All Pizza Sales on March 3.Business Editors TEMECULA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2003 The much-anticipated arrival of the first 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CPKI CPKI California Pizza Kitchen, Inc ) in the Inland Empire In·land Empire A region of the northwest United States between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, comprising eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana. Farming, lumbering, and mining are important to the area. will take place on February 25th. The new full-service restaurant in Temecula -- CPK's 150th -- will enjoy a central location at the city's most popular and premiere shopping destination, The Promenade. The Promenade in Temecula is a specialty retail mall featuring 130 shops and specialty stores, restaurants, services, a multi-cinema theater complex, and a Play Land for kids. CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. is located in the Plaza next to Edwards Cinemas. To celebrate the grand opening, California Pizza Kitchen will donate 100% of pizza sales to the Arts Council An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad. of Temecula Valley to help fund the organization's after-school and summer youth art programs. The Arts Council of Temecula Valley serves as the umbrella organization under which a network of more than twenty-eight arts and cultural organizations in the Temecula Valley stimulate the growth of visual and performing arts. "We welcome California Pizza Kitchen and take pleasure in working with a company that shares our dedication to children," said Martha Minkler, executive director of the Arts Council of Temecula Valley. "With the help of California Pizza Kitchen funding our Summer Youth Art Institute, we will be able to expand its free and in-depth visual art instruction in 2003, to include two weeks for middle and high school students and an additional component at the Temecula Boys and Girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. Club." "We look forward to meeting our new neighbors in the Temecula Valley and hope everyone will stop by on March 3rd to support the Arts Council's important programs for the community's children," 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. The Temecula restaurant will feature an exhibition kitchen, light woods, and colorful pizza box art on the walls -- all signatures of the California Pizza Kitchen contemporary decor. The restaurant is just over 5,000 square feet with nearly 200 seats. Lunch and dinner will be served daily California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment, featuring hearth-baked pizzas, pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches. The chain operates, licenses or franchises 150 restaurants of which 119 are company owned, and 31 operate under franchise or license agreements. The California Pizza Kitchen website is www.cpk.com. |
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