BJ's Restaurants Opens in Jacksonville, Florida
August 30 2011 - 4:05PM
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced the opening of
its newest restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 29, 2011.
The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located on the northeast
corner of Butler Boulevard and Gate Parkway next to the Costco
Warehouse Club. 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 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 bring the BJ's restaurant concept to
Jacksonville, Florida," commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO.
"Our Jacksonville restaurant is our seventh restaurant in Florida,
where we have recently been achieving some of our strongest
increases in comparable restaurant sales. We continue to believe
that Florida will be a very fertile development ground for the BJ's
restaurant concept going forward. Currently, all seven of our
restaurants in Florida are located in the central and northern
parts of the state. We plan to open our first restaurant in
South Florida later this year in Pembroke Pines, and we have
several more potential locations targeted for future development
throughout the entire state. To date, we have opened seven new
restaurants during 2011. We remain on track to open as many as five
to six more restaurants this year, thereby achieving our stated
expansion goal to open as many as 12 to 13 new restaurants during
2011."
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 109 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 (23), Arizona (6), Colorado (4), Oregon (2), Nevada (5),
Florida (7), 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 109 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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