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California Pizza Kitchen
California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) is an American casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, United States. California Pizza Kitchen introduced and popularized BBQ Chicken Pizza. Description The chain has over 185 locations in 32 U.S. states and 10 other countries, including 15 California Pizza Kitchen nontraditional, franchise concepts designed for airports, universities, and stadiums. CPK'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 brand was originally licensed to Kraft in 1999. The license was assigned to Nestlé after it purchased Kraft's pizza lines in 2010. History 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beverly Drive
Beverly Drive is a major north–south roadway in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. Location South Beverly Drive South Beverly Drive begins northbound at Harlow Avenue, a small street just north of the Santa Monica Freeway in the city of Los Angeles. It passes through the residential neighborhood of Beverlywood and intersects with Pico Boulevard before entering the city of Beverly Hills at Whitworth Avenue. Between Olympic and Wilshire Boulevards, it becomes markedly commercial, with dining and shopping establishments throughout. This street is the location of the original California Pizza Kitchen. North Beverly Drive North Beverly Drive begins northbound after Wilshire, with a continuation of luxury stores and restaurants. North of Santa Monica Boulevard it crosses Beverly Gardens Park and enters one of the city's more lavish residential neighborhoods. Before crossing Sunset Boulevard it approaches a broad and notoriously congested three-way intersection with Canon Drive and Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Initial Public Offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges. Through this process, colloquially known as ''floating'', or ''going public'', a privately held company is transformed into a public company. Initial public offerings can be used to raise new equity capital for companies, to monetize the investments of private shareholders such as company founders or private equity investors, and to enable easy trading of existing holdings or future capital raising by becoming publicly traded. After the IPO, shares are traded freely in the open market at what is known as the free float. Stock exchanges stipulate a minimum free float both in absolute terms (the total value as determined by the share price multiplied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gluten Intolerance Group
The Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1974 to increase awareness and support of a gluten-free diet. It is most well-known for its food product certification program, the Gluten-Free Certification Organization. History Elaine Hartsook, a dietitian at the University of Washington, founded the Gluten Intolerance Group in 1974 to "support and educate individuals impacted by gluten-related disorders" and formed its first support group in 1983. Just before Hartsook died in 1996, she handed leadership over to Cynthia Kelly, who remains CEO to the present day. The Gluten-Free Certification Organization was established in 2005 and greatly expanded after being taken over in 2008 by Channon Quinn, who later became GIG's COO and CEO of GIG Cares. In 2007, GIG acquired the Gluten-Free Restaurant Awareness Program to work with restaurants producing gluten-free options, and later revamped this program as the Gluten-Free Food Service. In 2020, duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Golden Gate Capital
Golden Gate Capital is an American private equity firm based in San Francisco. The firm makes investments in a number of select industries, including technology, financial services, retail and industrial, through leveraged buyout transactions, as well as significant minority purchases and growth capital investments. , it had over $15 billion in assets under management. The firm was founded in 2000 by former investment professionals from private equity firm Bain Capital and its affiliate, Bain & Company, led by former Bain Capital partner David Dominik. Golden Gate's investment fund is structured as an evergreen fund with no finite life, meaning Golden Gate does not have to sell all investments within five to 10 years in order to raise another fund and can instead fund-raise as deals are made. As of 2017, the firm had approximately 54 investment professionals. Holdings Following the bursting of the Dot-com bubble, the firm had shown a pattern of investments in technology compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chief Development Officer
A chief business development officer (CBDO) is a position within a company established beside the other executive positions reporting to CEO and COO. The title is used to define a high-ranking position alongside the CEO. The CBDO is expected to have a broad and comprehensive knowledge of all matters related to the business of the organization with an eye towards identifying new sales prospects and driving business growth and requirements for product development that will be coordinated with R&D functions. Responsibilities can include: * Elaborate business development plans, design and implement processes to support business growth, through customer and market definition. * Facilitate business growth by working together with clients as well as business partners (suppliers, subcontractors, JV partners, technology providers, etc.). * Build and maintain high-level contacts with current and prospective customer and other business and project partners. * Drive prospects through to cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brinker International
Brinker International, Inc. (or simply Brinker) is an American multinational hospitality industry company that owns Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy restaurant chains. Founded in 1975 and based in Dallas, Texas, Brinker currently owns, operates, or franchises 1,672 restaurants under the names Chili's Grill & Bar and Maggiano's Little Italy worldwide. History Larry Lavine opened the first Chili's Grill & Bar in Dallas, Texas. The company was renamed Chili's Inc. in 1976. Chili's Inc. was sold to Norman E. Brinker in 1983, and took the company public a year later. The first Romano's Macaroni Grill opened in Leon Springs, Texas, in 1988. In 1991, Chili's Inc. became Brinker International, Inc. In 1992, the company entered into an agreement with Pac-Am Food Concepts to expand the Chili's brand to the Far East. In 2000, Norman Brinker stepped down as company chairman; he died in June 2009. In November 2012, Brinker announced the election of Wyman Roberts as CEO and President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Company
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. is an American private equity firm focused on growth capital investments in middle-market companies in the consumer products, retail, specialty retail and restaurant sectors. The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 1995. The firm has raised approximately $1.4 billion since inception across three funds. The firm was founded by Bruce Bruckmann, Harold Rosser, and Stephen Sherrill, who had previously worked together as executives of Court Square Capital Partners, Citicorp Venture Capital since as early as 1983. Within the restaurant and retail sectors, BRS's notable investments have included Au Bon Pain, Bravo! Cucina Italiana, California Pizza Kitchen, Il Fornaio, Jitney Jungle, Lazy Days' RV Center, Logan's Roadhouse, McCormick & Schmick's, Real Mex Restaurants and Town Sports International Holdings. In the consumer Products space, BRS has completed notable investments in AMF Bowling, B&G Foods, Doane Pet Care, Remington Arms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
PepsiCo
PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase, New York, Purchase. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Frito-Lay, Inc., PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to an immensely diversified range of food and beverage brands. Significant acquisitions include Tropicana Products in 1998, the Quaker Oats Company in 2001, which added the Gatorade brand to the Pepsi portfolio, and Pioneer Foods in 2020 for US$1.7 billion. As of January 2021, the company possesses 23 brands that have over 1 billion $ each in sales annually. PepsiCo has operations all around the world and its products were distributed across more than 200 countries and territories, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Suzanne Goin
Suzanne Goin (born 25 September 1966) is an American chef and restaurateur from Los Angeles, California. She was named one of ''Food & Wine'' magazine's "best new chefs of 1999" and won a James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef in 2016. In 2006, Goin won the Beard Award for Best Chef: California and one for her cookbook, ''Sunday Suppers at Lucques''. Career When Goin was a high school senior at Marlborough School in Los Angeles, she interned at Ma Maison restaurant just after the departure of Wolfgang Puck. After graduation, she enrolled in Brown University where she graduated with honors. Goin then worked at a series of restaurants, including Alice Waters' Chez Panisse and Todd English's Olives. In the early 1990s, she traveled to France. She worked with Alain Passard at his three Michelin-star L'Arpège, along with stints at Didier Oudill's two-star Pain and Patisserie Christian Pottier. After returning to Los Angeles in 1995, she spent two years at Mark Peel’s restaurant Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Shirley MacLaine, numerous accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award, an Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cup for Best Actress, Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bear for Best Actress, Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honors, Kennedy Center Honor in 2014. MacLaine is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals ''Me and Juliet'' and ''The Pajama Game''. MacLaine's career bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
