BJ's Restaurants Opens in Century City, California
June 07 2011 - 4:15PM
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced the opening of
its newest restaurant in Century City, CA on June 6, 2011. The new
BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is the latest addition to the
880,000 square foot open-air Westfield Century City Mall. The
restaurant is approximately 7,300 square feet, contains seating for
approximately 245 guests, and features BJ's extensive menu
including BJ's signature deep-dish pizza, award-winning handcrafted
beer and famous Pizookie® dessert. BJ's highly detailed,
contemporary décor and unique video statement, including BJ's 103"
plasma display as well as 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 very excited to open in our 'home court' of Southern
California at the Century City Mall," commented Jerry Deitchle,
Chairman and CEO. "Sales for our first day of operations were
very strong. The new Century City restaurant represents our
fourth new restaurant this year. We continue to remain on
track to open as many as 12 to 13 new restaurants during
2011. Our next planned restaurant opening is scheduled for the
end of June in Las Vegas, NV. We currently have eight additional
restaurants under construction for planned openings later this
year, and our development team is finalizing several new restaurant
locations for potential 2012 openings." Investors are reminded
that the actual number and timing of new restaurant openings is
subject to a number of factors outside of the Company's control,
including weather conditions and factors under the control of
landlords, contractors and regulatory/licensing authorities.
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 106 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 in addition to using
qualified contract brewers to produce and distribute BJ's
critically acclaimed proprietary handcrafted beers throughout the
chain. The Company's restaurants are located in California (53),
Texas (22), 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 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,
future guest traffic, 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
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 53 of our current 106 restaurants are located, (viii)
restaurant and brewery industry competition, (ix) impact of certain
brewery business considerations, including without limitation,
dependence upon suppliers, third party contractors 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 service-mark 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, including its recent reports on
Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. 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.
CONTACT: Greg Levin
BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
(714) 500-2400
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