Noodles & Company

Good afternoon and welcome to today's Noodles & Company first quarter 2024 earnings conference call. All participants are in listen only mode. After the presenter's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. As a reminder, this call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce Noodles & Company's chief financial officer, Mike Hines.

Thank you and good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to our first quarter 2024 earnings call. Here with me this afternoon is Drew Mattson, our Chief Executive Officer. I'd like to start by going over a few regulatory matters. During our remarks, we may make forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company. Any such items should be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Such statements are only projections and actual events or results could differ materially from those projections due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those referred to in this afternoon's news release and the cautionary statement in the company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q and subsequent filings with the SEC. During the call, we will discuss non-GAAP measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating the company's operating performance. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is available in our first quarter 2024 earnings release. To the extent that the company provides guidance, it does so only on a non-GAAP basis and does not provide reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP measures. Quantitative reconciling information for these measures is unavailable without unreasonable effort. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Drew Mattson, our Chief Executive Officer.