Kura Sushi USA, Inc.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Kurosushi Fiscal Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. This time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode, and lines will be open for your questions following the presentation. Please note that this call is being recorded. On the call today, we have Hajime Jimmy Uba, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Utes, Chief Financial Officer, and Benjamin Porton, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and System Development. And now I'd like to turn the call over to Mr. Portin. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, Operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining. By now, everyone should have access to our fiscal second quarter 2025 earnings release. It can be found at www.curseissue.com in the investor relations section. A copy of the earnings release has also been included in the 8K resubmitted to the SEC. Before we begin our formal remarks, I need to remind everyone that part of our discussion today will include forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and therefore you should not put undue reliance on them. These statements are also subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from what would be expected. We refer all of you to our SEC filings for a more detailed discussion of the risks that could impact our future operating results and financial condition. Also during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures which we believe can be useful in evaluating our performance. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation, nor is a substitute for results for parent importance with GAAP, and the reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures are available in our initial release.

With that out of the way, I would like to turn the call over to Jimmy.