BJ's Restaurants, Inc.

Hello and welcome to PJ's Restaurants, Inc. Q1 2023 earnings release and conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one in your telephone keypad. To withdraw from the question queue, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would like to turn the conference over to Greg Levin. Chief Executive Officer and President. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to BJ's Restaurant's fiscal 2023 first 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. 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 first quarter of 2023, and you can view the full text of our earnings release on our website at www.djsrestaurants.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 Hodek will provide some commentary on the quarter and the current operating 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 are 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, April 27, 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 laws. Investors are referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Greg?