BJ's Restaurants, Inc.

Greetings. Welcome to BJ's Restaurants Incorporated fourth quarter 2022 earnings release and conference call. At this time, all participants are in 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 Greg Levin, Chief Executive Officer and President. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to BJ's restaurants fiscal 2022 fourth quarter investor conference call and webcast. I am Greg Levin, BJ's chief executive officer and president. And joining me on the call today is Tom Hodick, our chief financial officer. And we also have Greg Lenz, our chief development officer on hand for Q&A. After the market closed today, we released our financial results for the fiscal 2022 fourth quarter, and you can view the full text of our earnings release on our website at www.bjsrestaurants.com. Our agenda today will start with Rhonda 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 Tom Hodick will provide some commentary on the quarter and the current environment. After that, we will open it up to questions. 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 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 guarantees 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, February 16, 2023. 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 law. Investors are referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking statements contained in the company, filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Greg?