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Both Wolfgang Puck and California Pizza Kitchen were instrumental in turning California-style pizza from a gourmet food trend to a mass consumer food product. Based on the success of his pizzas and his status as a celebrity chef, Puck opened a series of restaurants, ranging from high-end clones of Spago to convenience chains for airports and mall food courts.
The first menu, including the famous BBQ Chicken Pizza, was developed by Ed LaDou, then the pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant. CPK became an immediate success, and the company expanded throughout Southern California. By 1992, there were 26 CPKs. [12] Flax and Rosenfield served as co-CEO and co-chairmen of CPK from 1985 through to ...
It has since become one of the leading sources of user-generated reviews and ratings for businesses. Yelp grew in usage and raised several rounds of funding in the following years. By 2010, it had $30 million in revenue, and the website had published about 4.5 million crowd-sourced reviews. From 2009 to 2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and ...
The pizza spot has been ranked No. 16 of the best pizza joints in the world, according to travel site Big 7. “It looks great, it really does,” Portnoy said of the pizza after taking a bite ...
Irving began in 1889 as an area called Gorbit, and in 1894 the name changed to Kit. [15] Irving was incorporated April 14, 1914, with Otis Brown as the first mayor. By the late nineteenth century the Irving area was the site of churches, two cotton gins, a blacksmith shop and a general store.
Pizza Inn is a Dallas-based restaurant chain and international food franchise, specializing in American-style pan pizza, pasta, and side dishes, owned by Rave Restaurant Group. The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas. [1] At its peak, Pizza Inn had over 500 locations in 20 states. [2]
Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre was founded by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, who sought to expand video-game arcades beyond adult locations like pool halls to family-friendly venues.
Toppers Pizza is a chain of pizza restaurants in the United States. The company was founded by Scott Gittrich in 1991 in Champaign, Illinois, [1] with the first Toppers Pizza location opened in 1993 in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where the company is headquartered today. [2] and the first franchise store opened in Eau Claire in 1997. [3]