Ark Restaurants Corp.

Got a front row seat.

Greetings. Welcome to the AHRQ Restaurant's third quarter 2022 results conference call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, AHRQ Secretary Christopher Love. You may begin.

Thank you, operator. Good morning and thank you for joining us on our conference call for the third quarter ended July 2nd, 2022. My name is Christopher Love and I am the Secretary of Arc Restaurants. With me on the call today is Michael Weinstein, our Chairman and CEO, Anthony Sirica, our President and Chief Financial Officer, and Vinnie Pascal, our Chief Operating Officer. For those of you who have not yet obtained a copy of our press release, it was issued over the news wires yesterday and is available on our website. To review the full text of that release, along with the associated financial tables, please go to our homepage at www.arcrestaurant.com. Before we begin, I'd like to read the Safe Harbor Statement. I need to remind everyone that part of our discussion this morning will include forward-looking statements and that these statements are not guarantees of future performance, and therefore, undue reliance should not be placed on them. to our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for more detailed discussion of the risks that may have a direct bearing on our operating results, performance, and financial conditions. I'll now turn the call over to Michael.