BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the opening of its
newest restaurant in Chino Hills, California, on September 29, 2008. The
new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is located in the Commons at Chino
Hills, a new 555,000 square foot retail center at 4585 Chino Hills
Parkway. The restaurant is approximately 9,000 square feet, contains
seating for approximately 280 guests and features BJ’s
extensive menu that includes BJ's signature deep-dish pizza,
award-winning handcrafted beer and our famous Pizookie®
dessert. BJ’s highly detailed, contemporary décor
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 delighted to open BJ’s
in Chino Hills,” commented Jerry Deitchle,
Chairman and CEO. "Our new restaurant is
located in a densely populated, mature trade area in our core Southern
California market, where the BJ’s concept
enjoys strong brand awareness and sales volumes. Our Chino Hills
restaurant represents our 12th restaurant
opening to date during 2008. We currently remain on track to open as
many as three more restaurants before the end of the year and thereby
achieve our stated goal to increase our operating weeks by 20% to 25%
for the full year.”
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 79 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 (42), Texas (13), Arizona (5), Colorado (3), Oregon (2),
Nevada (2), Florida (4), Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Kentucky (1), Indiana
(1), Louisiana (1) and Washington (1). 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 2008, those regarding the effect of new sales-building initiatives,
as well as those regarding the number of restaurants expected to be
opened in 2008 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) our
ability to manage an increasing number of new restaurant openings, (ii)
construction delays, (iii) labor shortages, (iv) minimum wage increases,
(v) food quality and health concerns, (vi) factors that impact
California, where 42 of our current 79 restaurants are located, (vii)
restaurant and brewery industry competition, (viii) impact of certain
brewery business considerations, including without limitation,
dependence upon suppliers and related hazards, (ix) consumer spending
trends in general for casual dining occasions, (x) potential uninsured
losses and liabilities, (xi) fluctuating commodity costs, the effect of
any resulting menu price increases on our sales, the availability of
food in general and certain raw materials related to the brewing of our
handcrafted beers and energy, (xii) trademark and servicemark risks,
(xiii) government regulations, (xiv) licensing costs, (xv) beer and
liquor regulations, (xvi) loss of key personnel, (xvii) inability to
secure acceptable sites, (xviii) limitations on insurance coverage,
(xix) legal proceedings, (xx) other general economic and regulatory
conditions and requirements, (xxi) the success of our key sales-building
and related operational initiatives and (xxii) 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.
