California Pizza Kitchen

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California Pizza Kitchen (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, United States. The California Pizza Kitchen chain is widely known for its innovative and nontraditional pizzas, such as the 'Original BBQ Chicken Pizza', BLT, Thai Chicken, and Jamaican Jerk Chicken pizzas. They also serve various kinds of pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches and desserts. They have an extensive children's menu for children ages 10 and under which includes a variety of different pizzas, pastas, salad and chicken. The chain has over 200 locations in 32 US states and 13 other countries, including 17 California Pizza Kitchen nontraditional, franchise concepts designed for airports, universities and stadiums. CPK's brand is licensed to a line of hand-tossed style, crispy thin crust, gluten-free crust and small frozen pizzas for sale in supermarkets. The brand was originally licensed to Kraft in 1999.The license was assigned to Nestlé after it purchased Kraft's pizza lines in 2010