BJ's Restaurants, Inc.

Good day, everyone, and welcome to the DJ's Restaurants, Inc. first quarter 2020 earnings release and conference call. Today's call is being recorded, and now at this time I'd like to turn the call over to Greg Trojan, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the conference call and webcast. I'm Greg Trojan, BJ's Chief Executive Officer. Joining me on the call today is Greg Levin, our President and Chief Financial Officer. And we also have Kevin Mayer, our Chief Marketing Officer, on hand for Q&A. So after the market closed today, we released our financial results for the first quarter of 2020, which ended Tuesday, March 31, 2020. You can view the full text of our earnings release on our website at www.bjsrestaurants.com. Our agenda today will start with Ronna Shermer, our Director of SEC Reporting, providing our standard cautionary disclosure with respect to forward-looking statements. I'll provide an update on our business, and then Greg Levin will provide a more detailed commentary on the quarter and current environment. After that, we'll open it up to questions. We expect to finish the call in about an hour, so Ronna, please go ahead.

Thanks, Greg. Our comments on the conference call today will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guaranteed of future performance and that undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Our forward-looking statements speak only as of today's date, May 7, 2020. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, unless required to do so by the securities laws. Investors are referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking statements contained in the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.