Birmingham Community Responds to Restaurant Fundraiser to Aid Thousands Affected by the Recent Alabama Tornado

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) (NASDAQ:CPKI), home of the Original BBQ Chicken Pizza and other innovative hearth-baked pizzas, made-to-order pastas, creative salads, appetizers, soups, sandwiches and desserts, announced today they have raised $52,993.28 from a recent two-day fundraiser to help support disaster relief efforts for those who have been affected by the recent Alabama tornado. There was a tremendous response from the community at large that came to dine at the two participating Birmingham-area CPK restaurants and the company’s co-founder and co-CEO, Rick Rosenfield, will be traveling from California with his wife Esther (Graffeo) Rosenfield, a Birmingham native, to personally deliver the check on May 25.