California Pizza Kitchen Plans Up to 1,000 Automated Kiosks as Restaurant Brands Push Beyond Traditional Locations

California Pizza Kitchen Plans Up to 1,000 Automated Kiosks as Restaurant Brands Push Beyond Traditional Locations

California Pizza Kitchen is preparing to make one of the restaurant industry’s largest bets yet on automated foodservice, with plans to deploy as many as 1,000 branded kiosks across the United States over the next three years. If the rollout approaches that scale, the machines could give CPK a substantial new distribution network without requiring anything resembling the real estate, staffing or investment associated with opening hundreds of con…