BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call July 21, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Greg Levin - Chief Executive Officer

Rana Schirmer - Director of SEC Reporting

Tom Houdek - Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Jeffrey Bernstein - Barclays

Drew North - Baird

Alex Slagle - Jefferies

Todd Brooks - The Benchmark Company

Jon Tower - Citi

Sharon Zackfia - Blair

Operator

Good day and welcome to the BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Release and Conference Call. Today's conference call is being recorded.

At this time, I'd like to turn the conference over to Greg Levin, Chief Executive Officer and President. Please go ahead, sir.

Greg Levin

Thank you, operator and good afternoon, everyone and welcome to BJ's Restaurants fiscal 2022 second quarter investor conference call and webcast. I am Greg Levin, BJ's Chief Executive Officer and President. And joining me on call today is Tom Houdek, our Chief Financial Officer. After the market closed today, we released our financial results for the fiscal 2022 second quarter. You can view the full text of our earnings release on our website at www.bjsrestaurants.com.

Our agenda today will start with Rana Schirmer, our Director of SEC Reporting, providing our standard cautionary disclosure with respect to forward-looking statements. I will then provide an update on our business and current initiatives and then Tom Houdek will provide some commentary on the quarter and the current environment. After that, we will open it up to questions.

So Rana, please go ahead.

Rana Schirmer

Thanks, Greg.

Our comments on the conference call today will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Our forward-looking statements speak only as of today's date, July 21, 2022. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required to do so by the securities laws. Investors are referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.