In 1992, PepsiCo paid nearly $100 million for 67% of the chain, with Flax and Rosenfield each receiving $17.5 million. įlax and Rosenfield served as co-CEO and co-Chairmen of CPK from 1985 through to 1996.
CPK became an immediate success, and the company expanded throughout Southern California. The first menu, including the famous BBQ Chicken Pizza, was developed by Ed LaDou, then the pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant. In 1985, Flax and Rosenfield pooled $200,000 in bank loans and savings along with $350,000 invested from friends to lease space on Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. The license was assigned to Nestlé after it purchased Kraft's pizza lines in 2010. The brand was originally licensed to Kraft in 1999. states and 10 other countries, including 15 California Pizza Kitchen nontraditional, franchise concepts designed for airports, universities, and stadiums.ĬPK'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 chain has over 250 locations in 32 U.S. They have an extensive children's menu for children ages 10 and under which includes a variety of different pizzas, pastas, salad, and chicken. They also serve various kinds of pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches, and desserts. The California Pizza Kitchen chain is widely known for its innovative and nontraditional pizzas, such as the "Original BBQ Chicken Pizza", Thai Chicken, and Jamaican Jerk Chicken pizzas. The company said its data breach notification “has not been delayed by law enforcement.A California Pizza Kitchen location at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey However, while CPK is shoring up its security in light of the incident, it’s unclear why it took the company two months to notify state authorities of the intrusion. We are reviewing existing security policies and have implemented additional measures to further protect against similar incidents moving forward.” “Upon discovering this incident, we immediately took steps to review and reinforce the security of our computing environment. “Information security is among our highest priorities, and we have strict security measures in place to protect information in our care,” CPK added. (TechCrunch contacted CPK for more but did not immediately hear back.) CPK employed around 14,000 people as of 2017, suggesting the bulk of those affected are former employees.
While CPK didn’t confirm how many people are impacted by the breach, a notification from the Maine attorney general’s office reported a total of 103,767 current and former employees - including eight Maine residents - are affected. By October 4, the company said it had determined cybercriminals had infiltrated its systems and gained access to certain files, including employee names and SSNs. The company said it learned of a “disruption” to its systems on September 15 and moved to “immediately secure” its environment. pizza chain, which has more than 250 locations across 32 states, confirmed the incident in a data breach notification posted this week. California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) has revealed a data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 current and former employees.
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