Partners for CPK: (From left) California Pizza Kitchen’s Rudy Sugueti, senior vice president of franchise development and executive director, GJ Hart, executive chairman and CEO, and Global Restaurant Concepts Inc.’s Archie Rodriguez, (GRCI) president and CEO, Manuel Zubiri, vice chairman, and Griffith Go, chief financial officer PHOTO BY MELYN ACOSTA
Entrepreneur Archie Rodriguez’ Global Restaurant Concepts Inc. (GRCI) was the first foreign company to franchise California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) outside the United States when it officially opened its first outlet in Glorietta Mall, Makati City in 1998.