BJ's Restaurants Wins Gold Medal at the Great American Beer Festival
September 28 2010 - 2:00PM
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) is pleased to announce that
the Company earned a gold medal award for one of the Company's
proprietary craft beers at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF)
in Denver, Colorado on September 16-18, 2010.
The gold medal was awarded in the German-Style Wheat Ale
category for a lighter version of the popular BJ's Harvest
Hefeweizen called "BJ's Hefelightzen." This award brings BJ's total
gold medal count at the GABF to 12 since the Company's first year
of GABF participation in 1996, with a total of 27 GABF medals
earned overall.
"We are very proud to receive this recognition from craft beer
industry professionals at GABF," said Alex Puchner, Senior Vice
President of Brewery Operations. "We have an outstanding craft
brewing tradition at BJ's and we constantly strive to produce
unique, world-class craft beers for our guests. It is
especially pleasing to win a gold medal for a light beer in the
same year that we introduced BJ's LightSwitch Lager, a handcrafted
light beer which is proving to be extremely popular with our
guests."
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 100 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
(50), Texas (19), Arizona (6), Colorado (4), Oregon (2), Nevada
(4), Florida (6), Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Kentucky (1), Indiana
(1), Louisiana (1) and Washington (2). Visit BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
on the Web 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. The
"forward-looking" statements contained in this press release are
based on current assumptions and expectations and 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. Investors are
referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties
associated with forward-looking statements contained in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its recent reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K.
CONTACT: BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
Matt Hood
(714) 500-2400
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