KIEV, Sept. 15 ??“ Cilija, which runs Lithuania's largest public catering chain, opened its first Cili-Pica pizzeria in Kiev this week, a company representative said.

"By the end of the year, we'll open two more and we have an optimistic plan for 2007-2008 ??“ five pizzerias will open every year," said Ricardas Pauliukonis, the director general of Kiev-based Cili-Pica Ltd., which was set up by Cilija in Ukraine.