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The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, United States. California Pizza Kitchen introduced and popularized BBQ Chicken Pizza.
Born in Beverly Hills in 1985, former federal prosecutors Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax combined their passion for food with fresh high-quality ingredients to create California Pizza Kitchen (CPK). Introducing diners to innovative California-style pizza with the invention of The Original BBQ Chicken Pizza.
California Pizza Kitchen's two founders, Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield, maintain that one of their core beliefs as restaurant owners was the importance of being kind to the people working for them, making sure they have room for growth, and granting them respect in the workplace at all times.
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Apr 11, 2017 · When Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield left behind their careers as criminal lawyers in 1985 to jump into the restaurant business, they believed that the strength of their California Pizza Kitchen concept would make or break their success.
May 17, 2006 · While CPK was founded in 1985 by just two men — Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax — there were many more minds that influenced the company’s growth. That’s because Rosenfield and Flax followed a unique path to building their business — rather than go it alone, they turned to big industry players for advice and guidance.
Jan 4, 2008 · “We saw the success he was having with the pizza up at Spago, so we decided to bring it to the masses,” Larry Flax, who in 1985 co-founded California Pizza Kitchen with Rick Rosenfield, said in...
