Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE:EAT) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2022 10:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Mika Ware - Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations
Kevin Hochman - Chief Executive Officer and President
Joe Taylor - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Jeff Farmer - Gordon Haskett
John Ivankoe - JPMorgan
Brian Vaccaro - Raymond James
Jon Tower - Citi
Catherine Griffin - Bank of America
Fred Wightman - Wolfe Research
David Palmer - Evercore ISI
Nicole Miller - Piper Sandler
Jeffrey Bernstein - Barclays
John Glass - Morgan Stanley
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Brinker International Q1 Fiscal 2023 Earnings Conference. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode. The floor will be opened for questions and comments following the presentation.
It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Mika Ware. Ma’am, the floor is yours.
Mika Ware
Thank you, Paul, and good morning everyone and thank you for participating on today’s call. With me are Kevin Hochman, our Chief Executive Officer and President; and Joe Taylor, our Chief Financial Officer.
Results for the quarter were released earlier this morning and are available on our website at brinker.com. As is our practice, Kevin and Joe will first make prepared comments related to our strategic initiatives and operating performance. Then we will open the call for your questions.
Before beginning our comments, I’d like to remind everyone of our safe harbor regarding forward-looking statements. During our call, management may discuss certain items, which are not based entirely on historical facts. Any such items should be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include factors more completely described in this morning’s press release and the company’s filings with the SEC.
And of course, on the call, we may refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures that management uses in its review of the business and believes will provide insight into the company’s ongoing operations.
And with that said, I will turn the call over to Kevin.
Kevin Hochman
Thanks, Mika, and good morning, everyone. I am now five months into this role and I am encouraged by our quick progress to grow top line sales and to simplify operations, while we still have work to do and there's some uncertainty in the macro environment to navigate, the business is moving in the right direction and we're putting the initiatives in place that we expect will grow the business and improve our four wall economics over time.