Denny's Corporation (NASDAQ:DENN) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call July 30, 2024 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Kayla Money – Director-FP&A and Investor Relations
Kelli Valade – President and Chief Executive Officer
Robert Verostek – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Todd Brooks – The Benchmark Company
Jake Bartlett – Truist Securities
Michael Tamas – Oppenheimer
Nick Setyan – Wedbush Securities
Ally Arfstrom – Piper Sandler

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to Denny's Corporation's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Kayla Money. Thank you. You may begin.

Kayla Money

Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us for Denny's second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. With me today from management are Kelli Valade, Denny's President and Chief Executive Officer; and Robert Verostek, Denny's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Please refer to our website at investor.dennys.com to find our second quarter earnings press release, along with the reconciliation of any non-GAAP financial measures mentioned on today's call. This call will be webcast and an archive of the webcast will be available on our website later today. Kelli will begin today's call with a business update. Then Robert will provide a recap of our second quarter financial results and the development update before commenting on guidance. After that, we will open it up for questions.

Before we begin, let me remind you that in accordance with the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the company knows that certain matters to be discussed by members of management during this call may constitute forward-looking statements. Management urges caution in considering its current trends and any outlook on earnings provided during this call. Such statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual performance of Denny's to be materially different from the performance indicated or implied by such statements. Such risks and factors are set forth in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 27, 2023, and in any subsequent Forms 8-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.

With that, I will now turn the call over to Kelli Valade, Denny's President and Chief Executive Officer.