BJ's Restaurants Opens in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
June 10 2008 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the opening
of its 72nd restaurant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on June 9, 2008.
The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located at 6401
Bluebonnet Blvd., near the intersection of Bluebonnet Blvd. and
Interstate 10 at the Mall of Louisiana. BJ�s is located near the
new 15-screen movie theatre in the mall�s new lifestyle retail and
restaurant wing. The restaurant is approximately 9,000 square feet,
contains seating for approximately 280 guests and features BJ�s
extensive menu that includes BJ's signature deep-dish pizza,
award-winning handcrafted beer and our famous Pizookie� dessert.
BJ�s highly detailed, contemporary d�cor and unique video
statement, including several high definition flat panel
televisions, creates a high energy, fun and family-friendly dining
environment for everyone to enjoy. Hours of operation are from
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight Sunday through Thursday, and 11:00
a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday. "We are very excited to open
our first restaurant in the state of Louisiana," commented Jerry
Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. "Our Baton Rouge restaurant represents
our fifth new restaurant opening to date for 2008, and also
represents our third opening during the current fiscal quarter. We
currently expect to open our next restaurant in Torrance,
California, before the end of June. We remain solidly on track to
open as many as 15 new restaurants during 2008 and thereby increase
our total restaurant operating weeks by 20% to 25% during the
year.� BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 72 casual
dining restaurants under the BJ's Restaurant & Brewery, BJ's
Restaurant & Brewhouse or BJ's Pizza & Grill brand names.
BJ's restaurants offer an innovative and broad menu featuring
award-winning, signature deep-dish pizza complemented with
generously portioned salads, appetizers, 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 several microbreweries which produce and
distribute BJ's critically acclaimed handcrafted beers throughout
the chain. The Company's restaurants are located in California
(39), Texas (11), Arizona (4), Colorado (3), Oregon (2), Nevada
(2), Florida (4), Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Kentucky (1), Indiana (1)
and Louisiana (1). The Company also has a licensing interest in a
BJ's restaurant in Lahaina, Maui. 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. Such statements include, but are not
limited to, those regarding expected comparable restaurant sales
growth in 2008, those regarding the effect of new sales-building
initiatives, as well as those regarding the number of restaurants
expected to be opened in 2008 and the timing and location of such
openings. 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 39 of our
current 72 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 spending trends in
general for casual dining occasions, (x) potential uninsured losses
and liabilities, (xi) fluctuating commodity costs, the effect of
any resulting menu price increases on our sales, the availability
of food in general and certain raw materials related to the brewing
of our handcrafted beers 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, (xx)
other general economic and regulatory conditions and requirements,
(xxi) the success of our key sales-building and related operational
initiatives and (xxii) numerous other matters discussed in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. BJ's
Restaurants, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or alter its
forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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