BJ's Restaurants Opens in Tacoma, Washington
October 14 2008 - 1:54PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the opening
of its 80th restaurant in Tacoma, Washington, on October 13, 2008.
The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located at 4502 S.
Steele St., Suite 1500 on the southeast corner of S. 48th Street
and Tacoma Mall Boulevard, just west of I-5. The restaurant is part
of the new lifestyle wing expansion at the 1.2 million square foot
Tacoma Mall. The new BJ�s restaurant is approximately 9,000 square
feet and contains seating for approximately 280 guests, 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 excited to open our 80th
BJ�s restaurant in Tacoma,� commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and
CEO. �The Tacoma restaurant represents our second restaurant
opening in the state of Washington and our 13th restaurant opening
to date during 2008. We currently have two more restaurants under
construction for potential November 2008 openings, one in Chula
Vista, California, and the other in Newark, California. As a
result, we expect to achieve our previously stated goal to open as
many as 15 new restaurants during 2008 and thereby increase our
total operating weeks by 20 to 25 percent for the full year.� BJ's
Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 80 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 (2). 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 80 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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