BJ's Restaurants Inc. Holds Annual Meeting of Shareholders
June 14 2005 - 5:51PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI), held its annual meeting of
shareholders today. During the meeting, shareholders re-elected to
the board of directors the company's co-chairmen, Paul A. Motenko
and Jeremiah J. Hennessy, the company's CEO, Gerald W. Deitchle,
and non-management directors Peter A. Bassi, Larry D. Bouts, Shann
M. Brassfield, James A. Dal Pozzo, John ("Jack") F. Grundhofer and
J. Roger King. Directors are elected to serve until the next annual
meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and
qualify. At the meeting, shareholders also approved the BJ's
Restaurants Inc. 2005 Equity Incentive Plan, and ratified the
appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's registered
independent accounting firm for fiscal 2005. BJ's Restaurants Inc.
currently owns and operates 39 casual dining restaurants under the
BJ's Restaurant and Brewery, BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse or BJ's
Pizza & Grill brand names. BJ's restaurants offer an innovative
menu featuring award-winning, signature deep-dish pizza
complemented with generously portioned salads, sandwiches, soups,
pastas, entrees and desserts. Quality, flavor, value, moderate
prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ's
experience. The company operates 11 microbreweries which produce
and distribute BJ's critically acclaimed handcrafted beers
throughout the chain. The company's restaurants are located in
California (27), Texas (5), Oregon (3), Arizona (2), Colorado (1)
and Nevada (1). The company also has a licensing interest in a BJ's
restaurant in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. Visit BJ's Restaurants Inc. on
the Web at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com. Certain statements in the
preceding paragraphs and all other statements that are not purely
historical constitute "forward-looking statements" for purposes of
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe
harbors created thereby. These forward-looking statements involve
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may
cause actual results to be materially different from those
projected or anticipated. Factors that might cause such differences
include, but are not limited to: (i) our ability to manage an
increasing number of new restaurant openings, (ii) construction
delays, (iii) labor shortages, (iv) minimum wage increases (v) food
quality and health concerns, (vi) factors that impact California,
where 27 of our current 38 restaurants are located, (vii)
restaurant and brewery industry competition, (viii) impact of
certain brewery business considerations, including without
limitation, dependence upon suppliers and related hazards, (ix)
consumer trends, (x) potential uninsured losses and liabilities,
(xi) fluctuating commodity costs including food and energy, (xii)
trademark and servicemark risks, (xiii) government regulations,
(xiv) licensing costs (xv) beer and liquor regulations, (xvi) loss
of key personnel, (xvii) inability to secure acceptable sites,
(xviii) limitations on insurance coverage, (xix) legal proceedings,
and (xx) other general economic and regulatory conditions and
requirements.
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