The Real Good Food Company, Inc.

Greetings and welcome to the Real Good Food Company first quarter 2023 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief 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. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Shamari Benton, Vice President of FPAA and IR.

Thank you, Shamari. You may begin.

Good morning, and welcome to the Real Good Food Company's first quarter 2023 earnings conference call. On the call today are Brian Freeman, Executive Chairman, Jerry Law, Chief Executive Officer, and Akshay Jagtel, Chief Financial Officer. Our first quarter earnings release crossed the wire at approximately 8 a.m. Eastern Time today. If you've not had a chance to review the release, it's available on the investor portion of our website at www.realgoodfoods.com. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that certain statements made on this call are forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities law and are subject to considerable risk and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements made on this call today, other than the statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and include statements regarding our projected financial results, including net sales, gross profit, gross margin, adjusted gross profit, adjust the gross margin, and adjust the EBITDA, as well as our ability to increase our net sales from existing customers and acquire new customers, introduce new products, compete successfully in our industry, implement our growth strategy, and effectively expand our manufacturing and production capacity. Forward-looking statements made on this call represent management's current expectations and are based on information available at the time such statements are made. Such statements involve a number of known and unknown uncertainties, many of which are outside the company's control and can cause future results, performance, or achievements to differ significantly from the results performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors and risks that can cause or contribute to such differences are detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking or other statements herein. whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. In addition, throughout this discussion, we refer to non-GAAP financial measures, which refer to results before taking into account certain one-time or non-reoccurring charges that are not core to our ongoing operating results. and which we believe better reflect the performance of our business on an ongoing basis. Our non-GAAP financial measures include adjusted gross margin and adjusted EBITDA are referenced. A reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is included in our first quarter earnings release. which is available on our website under our Investors tab. With that, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to the Real Good Food Company's Executive Chairman, Brian Freeman.