BJ's Restaurants Wins Two Gold Medals At The Great American Beer Festival
October 20 2008 - 4:54PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) announced today that gold
medals were recently awarded for two of the Company�s proprietary
craft beers at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver,
Colorado. BJ�s Oktoberfest was awarded a gold medal in the
American-Style Amber Lager category. Additionally, a gold medal was
awarded in the German-Style Wheat Ale category for a new,
light-beer version of the popular BJ�s Harvest Hefeweizen called
�I�m Half the Beer I Used to Be.� These two awards bring BJ�s gold
medal count at the GABF to 11, and to 25 GABF medals overall since
the Company�s first year of GABF participation in 1996. �We are
extremely proud of our craft brewing tradition and capabilities at
BJ�s, and these two GABF gold medals are a testament to our
continuing commitment to create unique, world-class craft beers for
our guests,� said Alex Puchner, Senior Vice President of Brewery
Operations. �While we are pleased to receive such recognition from
the craft beer industry professionals on the GABF judging panels,
ultimately it is the feedback from the guests in our restaurants
that matters the most. BJ�s Oktoberfest was recently featured in
all BJ�s Restaurants and quickly became the highest selling
seasonal beer in the Company�s history. Our guests were telling us
we had a winner with our Oktoberfest, and it turns out they were
right.� BJ�s Oktoberfest is available in BJ�s Restaurants this
month while supplies last. The light version of BJ�s Harvest
Hefeweizen is being considered for rollout to Company restaurants
during 2009. In addition to BJ�s award-winning handcrafted beer,
all BJ's Restaurants feature an extensive menu that includes BJ's
signature deep-dish pizza and famous Pizookie� dessert. BJ's highly
detailed, contemporary decor 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 midnight Sunday
through Thursday and 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
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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