Kura Sushi USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:KRUS) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call January 4, 2024 5:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Benjamin Porten - SVP, IR & System Development
Hajime Jimmy Uba - President & CEO
Jeff Uttz - CFO
Conference Call Participants
Joshua Long - Stephens
Jeremy Hamblin - Craig-Hallum
Sharon Zackfia - William Blair
Jeffrey Bernstein - Barclays
Jon Tower - Citigroup
Todd Brooks - Benchmark Company
George Kelly - ROTH Capital Partners
Mark Smith - Lake Street
Operator
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Kura Sushi USA, Inc. Fiscal First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode and the lines will be open for your questions following the presentation. Please note that this call is being recorded.
On the call today, we have Hajime Jimmy Uba, President and Chief Executive Officer; Jeff Uttz, Chief Financial Officer; and Benjamin Porten, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and System Development.
And now, I'd like to turn the call over to Mr. Porten.
Benjamin Porten
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining. By now, everyone should have access to our fiscal first quarter 2024 earnings release. It can be found at www.kurasushi.com in the Investor Relations section. A copy of the earnings release has also been included in the 8-K we submitted to the SEC.
Before we begin our formal remarks, I need to remind everyone that part of our discussion today will include forward-looking statements defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and therefore, you should not put undue reliance on them.
These statements are also subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what we expect. We refer all of you to our SEC filings for a more detailed discussion of the risks that could impact our future operating results and financial condition.
Also during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating our performance. Presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and the reconciliation to comparable GAAP measures are available in our earnings release.
With that out of the way, I would like to turn the call over to Jimmy.