BJ's Restaurants Opens in Modesto, California
August 05 2008 - 12:47PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) today announced the opening of
its newest restaurant in Modesto, California, on August 4, 2008.
The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located at 3401 Dale
Road, within the new 60,000 square-foot outdoor lifestyle addition
to the existing 1.2 million square foot Vintage Faire Mall. 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 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 newest BJ�s restaurant in Modesto,�
commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. �Our opening day sales
were very solid, and we look forward to our Modesto restaurant
joining the ranks of BJ�s other high volume restaurants in
California�s Central Valley.� �Our development, supply chain and
operations teams have done an outstanding job in successfully
opening five new BJ�s restaurants during the last four weeks,� said
Deitchle. �This is a strong testament to the strength and capacity
of our operational and support infrastructure to successfully
execute our expansion plan. The Modesto restaurant represents our
11th opening so far during 2008 and our fifth opening in the
current quarter. We currently remain on track to open as many as
four additional restaurants before the end of the year and thereby
achieve our stated goal to increase our operating weeks by 20% to
25% for the full year.� BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and
operates 78 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 (41), 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 41 of our
current 78 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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