California Pizza Kitchen

CPK to give 10% discount, 10% donation DOWNTOWN GLENDALE -- California Pizza Kitchen will give a 10% discount to customers Wednesday and then turn around and give a 10% donation of each order to the Glendale Youth Alliance when patrons bring in a flier. The alliance provides the city's youth with jobs and job training. California Pizza Kitchen is at 101 N. Brand Blvd. To receive a flier, call the Glendale Youth Alliance at 548-3972. Darleene Barrientos City to host multi-family rezoning workshop SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- The city is preparing zoning and standards proposals for multi-family neighborhoods, and it is looking for community input.

Students raising money with McDonald's card NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- Jefferson Elementary School students can get a discount at a fast-food restaurant while raising money for their school. Jefferson students are selling VIP McDonald's cards, which allow consumers to purchase a value meal, with the main entree -- such as a hamburger -- for free. The card is $10, and 50% of the profits go to the school to help students attend camp or help the Parent-Teacher Assn.

Glendale-based Nestlé USA is voluntarily recalling four types of frozen pizzas sold under the California Pizza Kitchen and DiGiorno brands, the company announced Thursday. The pizzas are being recalled because of the chance that they may contain small fragments of clear plastic, which was reported by a small number of consumers who had purchased the CPK Crispy Thin Crust White Pizza. An internal investigation indicated the cause was directly related to a particular order of spinach received from a supplier, which was also used on the other three varieties of pizza recalled.

Rima Shah The street was the limit for good food Wednesday night. The fourth annual Taste of Downtown Glendale brought in about 1,000 food lovers to restaurant-hop and support Glendale Healthy Kids, the organization that Taste of Glendale benefits. For $20 a person, attendees sampled delicacies from 20 downtown restaurants, including Damon's Steakhouse, California Pizza Kitchen, Carousel Restaurant, Porto's Bakery, Olive Garden, Favorite Place, Jamba Juice, Java City, Milano's Cucina, Sushi Tako and Urartu Coffee.

DOWNTOWN ? In hopes of making money in a busy downtown location that didn?t work for its predecessor, BJ?s Restaurant and Brewhouse opened its doors to Glendale on Monday. Parked at the corner of Brand Boulevard and Broadway, on the ground floor of the Glendale City Center at 101 N. Brand Blvd., the restaurant?s new stainless steel facade beckoned passersby to test the newly opened eatery. The sign was familiar to Irvine resident Shannon Shin, who randomly stopped in for lunch to enjoy some deep-dish pizza.

CITY HALL — The Glendale City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, on Tuesday approved a major design overhaul of the Glendale City Center office building, which the owners say is needed to attract corporate tenants. Legacy Partners bought the 400,000-square-foot, 20-story office building at 101 N. Brand Blvd. — a prime downtown location that is home to dozens of office tenants and restaurants including Islands, BJ’s and California Pizza Kitchen — in July.

DOWNTOWN — Year-end profits for the parent company of Glendale-based Nestle USA fell 42% to $9.6 billion in 2009, company executives reported Friday. Nestle SA, the world’s largest food and beverage corporation, employs about 1,600 workers at its U.S. headquarters in Glendale and has a national staff of about 22,000. The $7-billion hit came after a surge of income in 2008 from the sale of a 26% stake in eye-care firm Alarcon, skewing a direct comparison to 2009, Nestle executives said during a news conference Friday.

No day is the same here at The News-Press. When the phone rings or the e-mail pings, it could be just about anyone at the other end. Often people call to suggest stories. Sometimes we follow those suggestions; sometimes we do not. Sometimes people call to with a tip about yet more weirdness in the Crescenta Valley or City Hall. Sometimes they’re right; often they are not. But rarely do I get an e-mail like the one I got recently from Brett Reynolds. Brett, 18, is a senior at Burroughs High School in Burbank, who was struggling with a clever way to ask his girlfriend to the prom.

Walking into a Starbucks, my worst fear has always been tripping over a power cord and prompting an attack by an irate blogger. A laptop wielded by a professional geek can be a deadly weapon. But now we have to deal with gun-toting latte drinkers. A website, which will remain unnamed, is advocating that citizens walk around in public with their handguns visibly displayed. And the craze (or crazy), has actually caught on in parts of California. So-called meet-ins of gunslinging individuals have been held in pizza parlors, coffee shops and restaurants.

I am again confounded by what I read in the News-Press Mailbag, on the hot topics of both smoking and “racism.” I slog through the reasoning of those against the smoking ban, in disbelief; am I supposed to laugh or cry? Is this an elaborate joke, and I’m just slow on the uptake? Are they truly obtuse? Or are their specious arguments simply semi-disguised sarcasm? I’m at a loss. Should I take their arguments seriously? Or look for the punch line, a la the News-Press reader who advised that women be given Gucci bags and instructed to smack smokers with them?

Glendale-based Nestlé USA is voluntarily recalling four types of frozen pizzas sold under the California Pizza Kitchen and DiGiorno brands, the company announced Thursday. The pizzas are being recalled because of the chance that they may contain small fragments of clear plastic, which was reported by a small number of consumers who had purchased the CPK Crispy Thin Crust White Pizza. An internal investigation indicated the cause was directly related to a particular order of spinach received from a supplier, which was also used on the other three varieties of pizza recalled.

No day is the same here at The News-Press. When the phone rings or the e-mail pings, it could be just about anyone at the other end. Often people call to suggest stories. Sometimes we follow those suggestions; sometimes we do not. Sometimes people call to with a tip about yet more weirdness in the Crescenta Valley or City Hall. Sometimes they’re right; often they are not. But rarely do I get an e-mail like the one I got recently from Brett Reynolds. Brett, 18, is a senior at Burroughs High School in Burbank, who was struggling with a clever way to ask his girlfriend to the prom.

Walking into a Starbucks, my worst fear has always been tripping over a power cord and prompting an attack by an irate blogger. A laptop wielded by a professional geek can be a deadly weapon. But now we have to deal with gun-toting latte drinkers. A website, which will remain unnamed, is advocating that citizens walk around in public with their handguns visibly displayed. And the craze (or crazy), has actually caught on in parts of California. So-called meet-ins of gunslinging individuals have been held in pizza parlors, coffee shops and restaurants.

DOWNTOWN — Year-end profits for the parent company of Glendale-based Nestle USA fell 42% to $9.6 billion in 2009, company executives reported Friday. Nestle SA, the world’s largest food and beverage corporation, employs about 1,600 workers at its U.S. headquarters in Glendale and has a national staff of about 22,000. The $7-billion hit came after a surge of income in 2008 from the sale of a 26% stake in eye-care firm Alarcon, skewing a direct comparison to 2009, Nestle executives said during a news conference Friday.

DOWNTOWN — Nestle fueled speculation about a shift in the global confectionary market Tuesday after it announced a $3.7-billion deal that would put its Glendale-based USA division in charge of a slate of frozen pizza brands to be acquired from Kraft Foods. The agreement, which would involve a cash purchase of North American frozen pizza labels DiGiorno, Tombstone, California Pizza Kitchen, Jack’s and Delissio, came as Kraft is preparing to sweeten an offer to buy British candy maker Cadbury.

I am again confounded by what I read in the News-Press Mailbag, on the hot topics of both smoking and “racism.” I slog through the reasoning of those against the smoking ban, in disbelief; am I supposed to laugh or cry? Is this an elaborate joke, and I’m just slow on the uptake? Are they truly obtuse? Or are their specious arguments simply semi-disguised sarcasm? I’m at a loss. Should I take their arguments seriously? Or look for the punch line, a la the News-Press reader who advised that women be given Gucci bags and instructed to smack smokers with them?

CITY HALL — The Glendale City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, on Tuesday approved a major design overhaul of the Glendale City Center office building, which the owners say is needed to attract corporate tenants. Legacy Partners bought the 400,000-square-foot, 20-story office building at 101 N. Brand Blvd. — a prime downtown location that is home to dozens of office tenants and restaurants including Islands, BJ’s and California Pizza Kitchen — in July.

DOWNTOWN ? In hopes of making money in a busy downtown location that didn?t work for its predecessor, BJ?s Restaurant and Brewhouse opened its doors to Glendale on Monday. Parked at the corner of Brand Boulevard and Broadway, on the ground floor of the Glendale City Center at 101 N. Brand Blvd., the restaurant?s new stainless steel facade beckoned passersby to test the newly opened eatery. The sign was familiar to Irvine resident Shannon Shin, who randomly stopped in for lunch to enjoy some deep-dish pizza.

Rima Shah The street was the limit for good food Wednesday night. The fourth annual Taste of Downtown Glendale brought in about 1,000 food lovers to restaurant-hop and support Glendale Healthy Kids, the organization that Taste of Glendale benefits. For $20 a person, attendees sampled delicacies from 20 downtown restaurants, including Damon's Steakhouse, California Pizza Kitchen, Carousel Restaurant, Porto's Bakery, Olive Garden, Favorite Place, Jamba Juice, Java City, Milano's Cucina, Sushi Tako and Urartu Coffee.

Turning a blighted negative into a glowing positive I support the Town Center because Rick Caruso does development better. It always costs more to get better quality. The last four or five developments in Glendale are pretty awful. The Fashion Square project has garish architecture and a parking lot bleak in winter and sun-baked in summer. The failed businesses in the Exchange huddle along a dark street across from a theater complex that few attend.