California Pizza Kitchen050

This restaurant chain has been serving gourmet pizzas, pasta, and salads to families all over the country for more than 25 years.

You'll find a wide variety of pizzas and pastas, some under the influence of other ethnic cuisine: Hawaiian pizza, Southwestern Chicken pizza, Thai chicken pizza, etc., and it's the same with the pastas. The traditional Italian choices are available as well, of course.

Children are handed boxes of crayons and menus with puzzles and games on them as they walk in the door, and it is an easy, comfortable place for a fairly quick, fairly inexpensive, and pretty good meal. The children's menu, for kids age 10 and under, includes a choice of pizza or pasta and a drink for $4.99. Side salads and dessert are available for an additional $0.99-$1.49.

The service is fast, friendly, and accomodating; booths are available at most locations, and plenty of boosters and high chairs stand at the ready. And the bathrooms are clean and diaper-changing stations are available.

The restaurants do not deliver, but take-out and online ordering is available.