//California Pizza Kitchen Files for Bankruptcy Because of Coronavirus

California Pizza Kitchen Files for Bankruptcy Because of Coronavirus

Los Angeles-based casual restaurant chain California Pizza Kitchen, better known simply as CPK, is now officially in chapter 11 bankruptcy as a result of the ongoing economic downturn fueled by the global coronavirus pandemic. While today’s announcement, made at Wall Street Journal, Nation’s Restaurant News, and elsewhere, does not mean that the company is closing its more than 250 locations permanently, though it does put the popular chain in dire straights.

The bankruptcy filing was made today in the state