The Costa Mesa-based restaurant chain marked its 40th birthday with black balloons and a determination to move on to new ...

To most, LaDou’s pizzas just weren’t appealing, except for one: the Barbecue Chicken Pizza. If CPK sold some 200 pizzas on opening night, about 180 of them were the Barbecue Chicken.

Most of the original menu is gone, but barbecue chicken pizza remains a best seller and available in the frozen foods section of grocery stores. CPK made a licensing deal with Kraft Foods in 1997.