California Pizza Kitchen Company Background: White-collar criminal defense attorneys Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield in Beverly Hills, California created California Pizza Kitchen in 1985. Famously known for its hearth-baked barbecue-chicken pizza, the “designer pizza at off-the-rack prices” concept thrived. Over the last twenty years, the company has expanded into 213 locations in 28 states and 6 foreign countries. Although approximately 41% of the U.S. stores are located in California the business
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Introduction to California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen is known worldwide for its high quality menu and ingredients, with budget friendly prices. They collect their revenues from three different sources. Sales from company owned restaurants, royalties from franchised restaurants and royalties from a partnership with Kraft to sell CPK branded frozen pizza in grocery stores. CPK has a "dedication to guest satisfaction and menu innovation and sustainable culture of service." CPK has
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California Pizza Kitchen Case FIN 4385 Eric Lundberg Kelly Deeds Kevin Pope Drew Williams Summary of California Pizza Kitchen Recapitalization Proposal * Brief history of CPK (p.3) * Reasons for CPK’s success (p.3) * Ways to facilitate the success of CPK (p.3-4) * Anticipated effect of changing the capital structure on return on equity (p.4) * Anticipated effect of changing the capital structure on cost of capital (p.5) * Expected number of shares of CPK that can
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California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) was co-founded in 1985 in Beverly Hills, California by Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax. Rosenfield and Flax both hold the title of Co-President, Co-CEO, and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors for California Pizza Kitchen. Susan Collyns, Chief Financial Officer, currently leads the financial team at California Pizza Kitchen which is faced with reducing the corporate income-tax liability while balancing the goal of the management team to grow the business. California
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Becca Mathew 3/10/2014 PepsiCo Restaurants Case In the PepsiCo’s Restaurants case, PepsiCo must evaluate the potential acquisition of Carts of Colorado and California Pizza Kitchen. The acquisition of these restaurants would expand PepsiCo’s restaurant business, but PepsiCo must consider how each deal will affect the scope of the firm and potential synergies in each deal before making a decision to acquire these firms or not. There are several
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The proposed acquisitions of California Pizza Kitchen and Carts of Colorado by Pepsico 1. Should PepsiCo buy California Pizza Kitchen? For both acquisitions it's more about what they add to PepsiCo, not what value PepsiCo adds to them Pros: - needs to acquire CPK to learn casual dining. That's where the growth is, and internal attempts to develop casual dining in Pizza Hut Cafe have failed. whether CPK is merely a passing yuppie fad, or if it is a long-term market segment doesn’t matter to
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CHANNEL The California Pizza Kitchen strategy to build a strong company with leadership position in the pizza industry decided to expand their distribution channel by not just having company owned business but utilizing franchises to expand their customer base. Franchising provides the ability to expand business rapidly at less of a financial risk. Profits are higher due to lower costs. Another channel is their high quality fast-casual concept called California Pizza Kitchen ASAP. The ASAP
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I was born and raised in California and had never experienced dining at the California Pizza Kitchen. I have heard about it through a few other people and passed by it numerous times. It never occurred to me to go experience eating and dining at this traditional American restaurant. This restaurant was established in 1985 in Los Angeles, California. When I was growing up, my family use to take us on road trips every so often down south to Los Angeles and San Diego. Every time we went there, I would
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k CASE 33: CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN INTRODUCTION California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is a restaurants services company that operates a casual dining chain, with a particular focus on the premium pizza segment. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and employs 14,800 people as on December 30th, 2007. The company recorded revenues of $633 million during the fiscal year ended December 2007, an increase of 14.1% over 2006. The increase in revenue was driven from its full service restaurants
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INTRODUCTION Beverly Flax and Rick Rosenfield founded California Pizza Kitchen in 1985 in Beverly Hills, California. California Pizza Kitchen is a casual dining, full service restaurant concept that specializes in gourmet pizzas with unique topping combinations. At the end of the second quarter of 2007 they operated 213 locations in 28 states and in 6 foreign countries. The company derives its revenue from three sources: sales at company-owned restaurants, royalties from franchised restaurant
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