BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Appoints Chief Marketing Officer
July 01 2008 - 2:29PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the
appointment of Matt Hood as Chief Marketing Officer, a new position
on the Company�s senior leadership team. In this capacity, Hood
will have full responsibility for the Company's marketing,
merchandising, culinary R&D, beverage R&D and concept
branding activities. Since 2007, Hood has served as a part-time
marketing consultant to the Company. �We are pleased to welcome
Matt as a full-time member of BJ's senior leadership team,� said
Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. �Matt is a highly respected and
experienced marketing executive with significant experience in the
restaurant industry. Additionally, he has a strong passion for the
operational side of the restaurant business. I am confident that
Matt�s experience and skills will become increasingly valuable as
we continue to build BJ's into a nationally respected and admired
restaurant growth company.� Since 2006, Hood has served as a
marketing and strategy consultant to the restaurant industry, and
has also served as the national restaurant brand consultant for
Google, Inc. From 2002 to 2006, he was employed by Fired Up, Inc.,
owner and operator of the Carino�s Italian Grill casual dining
concept, with his last position as Senior Vice President, Marketing
and Brand Development. Earlier in his career, Hood served as a
marketing manager for Brinker International, owner and operator of
the Chili�s Grill and Bar and other casual dining concepts. Hood is
a cum laude graduate of Texas Christian University and also has an
MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from the Kellogg Graduate
School at Northwestern University. Hood recently completed a term
as co-chair of the National Restaurant Association�s Marketing
Executives Group. BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and
operates 73 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 (40), 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 40 of our
current 73 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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