BJ's Restaurants, Inc.

Good day and welcome to the BJ's Restaurants Incorporated Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Release and Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded, and at this time I would like to turn the conference over to Greg Trojan, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Operator, and good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to BJ's Restaurants Fiscal 2020 Fourth Quarter Investor Conference Call and Webcast. I'm Greg Trojan, BJ's Chief Executive Officer. And joining me on the call today is Greg Levin, our President and Chief Financial Officer. We also have Greg Lins, our Chief Development Officer, and Kevin Mayer, our Chief Marketing Officer, on hand for Q&A. After the market closed today, we released our financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, which ended on Tuesday, December 29, 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 will then provide an update on our business and current initiatives, and then Greg Levin will provide some commentary on the quarter and the current environment. After that, we'll open it up to questions. So, Ronna, 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 the 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 for future performance and that undue reliance cannot be placed on such statements. Our forward-looking statements speak only as of today's date, February 11, 2021. 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 security clause. Investors are referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking statements and filings of risk through the Exchange Commission.