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California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The company\'s full-service restaurants feature an imaginative line of hearth-baked pizzas, including the original BBQ Chicken Pizza, and a broad selection of distinctive pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches. Of the chain\'s two hundred seven restaurants, one hundred seventy seven are company-owned and thirty operate under franchise or license agreements. There are twenty five CPK ASAP locations, nine of which are company-owned and sixteen are franchised. Another company-owned concept is LA Food Show Grill & Bar, which currently has one location in Manhattan Beach, California. The company also has a licensing arrangement with Kraft Pizza Company, which manufactures and distributes a line of California Pizza Kitchen premium frozen pizzas. |