BJ's Restaurants Announces Executive Appointment
January 08 2009 - 5:30PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the
appointment of Wayne Jones as Executive Vice President and Chief
Restaurant Operations Officer, effective January 19, 2009. Jones,
49, has over 25 years of casual dining restaurant management
experience, with his last 19 years at The Cheesecake Factory
Incorporated, an operator of 159 high volume, upscale casual dining
restaurants. During his tenure at Cheesecake Factory, Jones served
in progressively responsible restaurant management and leadership
positions, with his last position as Vice President, Operations
Analysis on the corporate staff. His previous assignments at
Cheesecake Factory included restaurant general manager, area
director and regional vice president of operations. �Wayne has the
highly-desired skill set of being both a passionate, high quality
restaurateur and a proven restaurant business executive with
superior leadership and analytical capabilities,� commented Jerry
Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. �We are very fortunate to have him join
BJ�s executive team. Wayne�s many years of experience in playing
key operational roles in the successful national development of
another high quality, more complex restaurant concept and business
model will be of significant value to BJ�s as we continue to
execute our expansion plan.� Jones will join Senior Vice President
Lon Ledwith, Regional Vice Presidents Chris Pinsak, Steve Mintzer
and Michele Maerz, and Vice Presidents Nanette McWhertor, James
Drake and Don Gardner on BJ�s capable and experienced restaurant
operations leadership team. BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns
and operates 82 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 (44), 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 future periods, those regarding the effect of new
sales-building initiatives, as well as those regarding the number
of restaurants expected to be opened in future periods 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) the effect of
recent credit and equity market disruptions on our ability to
finance our continued expansion on acceptable terms, (ii) our
ability to manage an increasing number of new restaurant openings,
(iii) construction delays, (iv) labor shortages, (v) minimum wage
increases, (vi) food quality and health concerns, (vii) factors
that impact California, where 44 of our current 82 restaurants are
located, (viii) restaurant and brewery industry competition, (ix)
impact of certain brewery business considerations, including
without limitation, dependence upon suppliers and related hazards,
(x) consumer spending trends in general for casual dining
occasions, (xi) potential uninsured losses and liabilities, (xii)
fluctuating commodity costs and availability of food in general and
certain raw materials related to the brewing of our handcrafted
beers and energy, (xiii) trademark and servicemark risks, (xiv)
government regulations, (xv) licensing costs, (xvi) beer and liquor
regulations, (xvii) loss of key personnel, (xviii) inability to
secure acceptable sites, (xix) limitations on insurance coverage,
(xx) legal proceedings, (xxi) other general economic and regulatory
conditions and requirements, (xxii) the success of our key
sales-building and related operational initiatives and (xxiii)
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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