BJ's Restaurants Opens in Henderson, Nevada
March 10 2009 - 3:15PM
Business Wire
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) today announced the opening
of its newest restaurant in Henderson, Nevada, on March 9, 2009.
The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located at 9520 S.
Eastern Avenue, immediately south of the I-215 freeway at the
Eastern Avenue interchange. The restaurant is part of the Silverado
Center, a 225,000 square foot retail shopping center. The
restaurant is approximately 8,500 square feet, contains seating for
approximately 280 guests and features BJ�s extensive menu,
including 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 first new restaurant of 2009 in
Henderson,� commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. �Opening
day sales were very strong. The Henderson restaurant represents our
second restaurant in the Las Vegas market, where our first
restaurant in Summerlin has enjoyed above-average sales volumes and
comparable restaurant growth during the past few years. We continue
to remain on track to open as many as 9 to 11 new restaurants
during 2009 and thereby increase our total restaurant operating
weeks by 15% to 16% during the year.�
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 83 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,
entr�es 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
(3), 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 83 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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