CPK Small Cravings Menu

Ken — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:58:03 +0000

A few weeks ago I got an email from the director of "Social Media and Grassroots Marketing" for a marketing company:

My name is Jon and I'm working with California Pizza Kitchen to help promote their new Small Cravings menu. I noticed on your blog that you're a fan of CPK and I wanted to share this video we created that documents CPK diners' first impression of the new Small Cravings menu. I'd like to invite you to visit CPK in hopes that you'd document your experience and write about your own reaction.. I can offer you $50 in CPK Dough so that you can head out to your local CPK on us.

Well, hey: a paying gig. I imagine this came about because of this review I did earlier. So, I took Jon up on the offer; sure enough, after a couple of weeks, $50 in "CPK dough" arrived in the mail.

Last weekend Amy and I went to CPK, and we ordered one of each item on the Small Cravings menu. That, coupled with the fact that I was photographing everything, probably had the waitstaff thinking I was some kind of Actual Journalist or something.

Anyway, here are the results.