BJ's Restaurants Opens in Chino Hills, California
September 30 2008 - 1:13PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the opening
of its newest restaurant in Chino Hills, California, on September
29, 2008. The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located in the
Commons at Chino Hills, a new 555,000 square foot retail center at
4585 Chino Hills Parkway. 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 delighted to open BJ�s in
Chino Hills,� commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. �Our new
restaurant is located in a densely populated, mature trade area in
our core Southern California market, where the BJ�s concept enjoys
strong brand awareness and sales volumes. Our Chino Hills
restaurant represents our 12th restaurant opening to date during
2008. We currently remain on track to open as many as three more
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 79
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 (42), 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 42 of our
current 79 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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