Giggles N' Hugs, Inc. hired John Kaufman, former Vice President of Operations of California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), as its new interim president. While at CPK, Kaufman worked alongside Philip Gay who was the CFO, and currently serves as chief business development officer of Giggles N' Hugs. Together with the founders of CPK, Kaufman and Gay laid the foundation and grew the company from one location to more than 70 locations when he left the company after its sale to Pepsi co.