California Pizza Kitchen

Marketing

9 ways restaurants are giving vets a break

Veterans Day provides an opportunity to than the nation's service men and women—and maybe snag some traffic in the process.

Emerging Brands

Inside Bottlefish, the new concept from CPK industry vets

The founders of California Pizza Kitchen switched gears with their new opening, an upscale casual-dining seafood restaurant. Here's a look at the concept, and how they plan to use their real estate connections to expand nationwide.

Here’s a look at which rewards programs rise to the top, and why.

Operators aren’t landing the buy-in for vegetarian dishes.

Italian heavyweight Olive Garden increased sales by 3%, helping to drive the menu category's 1.9% sales growth, to $8.5 billion.

Consumers' expectations are higher than ever and constantly evolving, forcing operators to take a second look at traditional menu items.

Chris Morris' successor as president of California Pizza Kitchen has yet to be named.

A spinoff of California Pizza Kitchen, ASAP offers a limited selection of CPK’s pizzas, salads, sandwiches and appetizers.

The FDA’s new food-labeling rules go into effect Dec. 1. How prepared are you? Take our multiple-choice quiz to find out—and then study up, based on your results.

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

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