The kiosks can make 7-inch pizzas sold at an average price of $12 per pie using the same ingredients found in California Pizza Kitchen's physical restaurants. Restaurants can be found in only 25 states, mostly along the coasts and in the South.
The kiosks can make 7-inch pizzas sold at an average price of $12 per pie using the same ingredients found in California Pizza Kitchen's physical restaurants.
Restaurants can be found in only 25 states, mostly along the coasts and in the South.
California Pizza Kitchen is making a cautious, cost-effective bet on brand expansion six years after the chain filed for bankruptcy during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The kiosks can make 7-inch pizzas sold at an average price of $12 per pie using the same ingredients found in California Pizza Kitchen's physical restaurants. Restaurants can be found in only 25 states, mostly along the coasts and in the South. California Pizza Kitchen is making a cautious, cost-effective bet on brand expansion six years after the chain filed for bankruptcy during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
California Pizza Kitchen, which operates 104 company-owned restaurants and has 32 franchise locations, says kiosks will help extend the brand in new locations where traffic is high, but dining options can at times be limited as the industry is constrained by high labor and food costs. Michael Beacham, president of the brand's parent company, California Pizza Kitchen Global, tells Fast Company that the brand has high name recognition due to a multiyear push to sell frozen goods at more than 20,000 retail grocery stores.
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