BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) Q1 2022 Results Conference Call April 21, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Greg Levin - CEO

Tom Houdek - CFO

Greg Lynds - Chief Development Officer

Rana Schirmer - Director of SEC Reporting

Conference Call Participants

Alex Slagle - Jefferies

David Tarantino - Baird

Joshua Long - Piper Sandler

Brian Mullan - Deutsche Bank

Jeffrey Bernstein - Barclays

Todd Brooks - The Benchmark Company

Jon Tower - Citi

Nick Setyan - Wedbush Securities

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and Welcome to BJ’s Restaurants Incorporated First Quarter 2022 Earnings Release and Conference Call. Today’s conference is being recorded.

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

Greg Levin

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to BJ’s Restaurants fiscal 2022 first quarter investor conference call and webcast. I’m Greg Levin, BJ’s Chief Executive Officer and President. And joining me on the call today is Tom Houdek, our Chief Financial Officer. We also have Greg Lynds, our Chief Development Officer on hand for Q&A.

After the market closed today, we released our financial results for the fiscal 2022 first quarter, and you can view the full text of our earnings release on our website at www.bjsrestaurants.com.

Our agenda today, we’ll 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, April 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. Greg?