The following Thursday we went back to the California Pizza Kitchen for the 'freebies' we 'earned' the week before due to my belonging to their reward program. I, also, had a $25 gift certificate from mypoints.com

We started off with a 7" pepperoni pizza ($7) and a spinach artichoke dip with chips ($13.49) plus Allen had a soda ($3.29) and after we each ordered the half sandwich and salad plate Allen getting the fried chicken and I got the California Turkey sandwich each $11.99.

Regarding the food: the pizza was okay while the spinach artichoke dip was excellent. Both Allen and I got busy taking the load of greens off our half sandwiches leaving us with little meat and a lot of bread. The salads were okay. The check came to $40.76 before I pointed out that the server forgot to take off the spinach artichoke dip which he promptly took off bringing the check, with tax, to $23.13 plus a $12 tip (based on 20% of the original cost).

Bottom line? As with most full service chain restaurants the food was just okay, except for the dip which was excellent, and a bit highly priced considering both lunches cost a total of $113.53, with tax and tip (20% based on original costs), before using the gift card and rewards. Might be another 31 years before we go to the California Pizza Kitchen!