BJ's Restaurants Opens in Tukwila, Washington and Pearland, Texas
July 29 2008 - 1:52PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) today announced the opening of
our two newest restaurants in Tukwila, Washington (in the Seattle
market) on Friday, July 25, 2008, and in Pearland, Texas (in the
Houston market) on Monday, July 28, 2008. The Tukwila restaurant is
located at 1159 Southcenter, on the south side of the newly
expanded Southcenter Mall. The mall�s expansion includes a
16-screen movie theater, along with over 275,000 square feet of new
premium retail. The new BJ�s restaurant is approximately 10,000
square feet and contains seating for approximately 310 guests. The
Pearland restaurant is located at 11200 Broadway St. on the
southwest corner of Highway 288 and FM 518 known as Pearland Town
Center. The new BJ�s restaurant is a part of the new 900,000
square-foot lifestyle center�s unique shopping environment that
includes open-air pedestrian walkways and eye-catching
architectural and design elements. The restaurant is approximately
9,000 square feet and contains seating for approximately 280
guests. Both new restaurants include BJ's signature deep-dish
pizza, award-winning handcrafted beer and famous Pizookie� dessert.
Additionally, each restaurant features BJ�s highly detailed,
contemporary d�cor and unique video statement, including several
high definition flat panel televisions, creating a high energy, fun
and family-friendly dining environment for everyone to enjoy. Hours
of operation for each restaurant 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 excited to open our first restaurant in the
state of Washington,� commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO.
�Our Tukwila restaurant set a new opening day sales record for any
BJ�s restaurant opened outside of our home state of California to
date. We look forward to opening our second Washington restaurant
at the Tacoma Mall later this year. Our Pearland restaurant
represents our fourth BJ�s in the Houston market, which has been
one of our leaders in comparable sales comparisons for the last
three years. Opening day sales in Pearland were very solid. We have
now opened 10 new restaurants to date during fiscal 2008, and we
remain on track to open as many as five more restaurants before the
end of the year and thereby achieve our stated goal to open as many
as 15 new restaurants during fiscal 2008.� BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
currently owns and operates 77 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 (13), Arizona
(5), Colorado (3), Oregon (2), Nevada (2), Florida (4), Ohio (2),
Oklahoma (2), Kentucky (1), Indiana (1), Louisiana (1) and
Washington (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 77 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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