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California Pizza Kitchen Inc. is one of the most successful and fastest-growing chain restaurants that began operations in the United States within the last ten years. The company boasts one of the most innovative and distinctive menus of any eating establishment in America, including such items as Barbecue Chicken Pizza, Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato Pizza, and Moo Shu Chicken Calzone Pizza. Although California Pizza Kitchen offers more than just pizza, including pasta, salads, desserts, beer, wine, and soft drinks, it is the pizza that it is famous for. With sales in 1995 rapidly increasing over the 1994 figures, and with 78 restaurants operating in 18 states, the company intends to continue its aggressive expansion policy.
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The open-exhibition kitchen takes center stage where guests can watch as all of California Pizza Kitchen's innovative dishes are prepared. The menu features a wide variety of innovative items including everything from the California Club Pizza and Jamaican Jerk Pizza to Kung Pao Spaghetti and the new Miso Salad. A special menu is ... available for children 12 and under.
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CPK is essentially a mass-market offshoot of Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in Beverly Hills, and the Chez Panisse cafe in Berkeley, California. The restaurant hired Spago's founding pizza chef, Ed LaDou, to design its menu, and used a similar concept involving an open kitchen centered around a wood-burning pizza oven. It is credited with spreading this once-exclusive California gourmet trend throughout the United States and, later, the world.
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Looks like a bit of suburbia coming to downtown San Francisco with the imminent opening of a California Pizza Kitchen (at 3rd and Jessie, in the old International Food Court Space). Anything of distinction on this chain operation's menu? The CPK in Shanghai puts out some weird-lookng pizzas, but that might be just some local peculiarities.
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California pizzas are generally smaller than the standard eight-slice Neapolitan; most are single-serving dishes. Due to the "gourmet" nature of the California pizzas, their high menu price often misleads those from the eastern United States; almost no California style pizzas can serve more than two or three at most, yet they cost about the same as a much larger New York-style pizza
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