CORRECTING and REPLACING -- BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Appoints Henry Gomez to Its Board of Directors
September 08 2011 - 11:05PM
In a release issued under the same headline earlier today by BJ's
Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI), please note that the second
paragraph, first sentence should read: Recruited in late 1999 to be
the first leader of public relations and marketing communications
at eBay Inc., Gomez played an important role in building eBay's
brand in the years immediately following that company's IPO (rather
than: ...public relations and marketing at eBay Inc.,...).
The corrected release follows:
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced the
appointment of Henry Gomez to the Company's Board of Directors as
an independent director, effective immediately. Mr. Gomez's
appointment brings the total number of the Company's board members
to nine.
Recruited in late 1999 to be the first leader of public
relations and marketing communications at eBay Inc., Gomez played
an important role in building eBay's brand in the years immediately
following that company's IPO. He eventually assumed key
operational roles at eBay, including Chief Marketing Officer and
later President of Skype, eBay's communication business at the
time. Gomez completed his tenure at eBay in 2008 as the company's
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs. He then founded HSG
Communications, a boutique communications consultancy and
investment firm. From 1993 to 1999, Gomez served as an
executive with Home Box Office (HBO), the premium television
network, with his last position as Vice President, Corporate
Affairs. Gomez began his business career at the global public
relations firm of Hill and Knowlton.
"We are very pleased to welcome Henry Gomez to our board of
directors," said Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. "Henry's
extensive background and experience in marketing, communications
and public relations will be of significant value to BJ's as we
continue to build a national brand that delivers a higher quality,
more differentiated casual dining experience to consumers."
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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