European Wax Center, Inc. (NASDAQ:EWCZ) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 9, 2023 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Bethany Johns - Director of Investor Relations

David Berg - Chief Executive Officer and Director

David Willis - President and Chief Operating Officer

Stacie Shirley - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Randal Konik - Jefferies

Dana Telsey - Telsey Advisory Group

Joshua Young - Truist Securities

Jonathan Komp - Baird

John Heinbockel - Guggenheim Partners

Kelly Crago - Citi

Simeon Gutman - Morgan Stanley

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to European Wax Center's Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a Q&A session. [Operator Instructions].

At this time, I would now like to turn the conference over to Bethany Johns, Director of Investor Relations. Ma'am, you may begin.

Bethany Johns

Thank you, and welcome to European Wax Center's Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Earnings Call. With me today are David Berg, Chief Executive Officer; David Willis, President and Chief Operating Officer; and Stacie Shirley, Chief Financial Officer.

For today's call, David Berg and David Willis will provide a brief overview of our second quarter performance and discuss our priorities for fiscal 2023. Then Stacie will provide additional details regarding our second quarter financial performance and our fiscal 2023 outlook. Following the prepared remarks, David, Stacie and David will be available to take questions.

Before we start, I would like to remind you of our legal disclaimer. We will make certain statements today which are forward-looking within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements about the outlook of our business and other matters referenced in our earnings release issued today. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially.

Please refer to our SEC filings as well as our earnings release issued today for a more detailed description of the risk factors that may affect our results. Please also note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this call and we take no obligation to revise or publicly release results of any revision to our forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.

Also, during this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures which adjust our GAAP results to eliminate the impact of certain items. You will find additional information regarding these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of these non-GAAP to GAAP measures in our earnings release. A live broadcast of this call is also available on the Investor Relations section of our website at investors.waxcenter.com.