Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc.

Good morning. Welcome to the Carroll's Restaurant Group fourth quarter 2021 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session and instructions will be given at that time. If anyone should require operator assistance during the call, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. I would like to remind everyone that this conference call is being recorded today, Thursday, February 24, 2022, at 8 a.m. Eastern Time and will be available for replay. I will now turn the conference over to Tony Hull, Chief Financial Officer.

Please go ahead, sir. Actually, we're going to turn it over to Greta Miles. Greta, go ahead.

Thank you, Paul and Tony, and good morning, everyone. By now, you should have access to our earnings announcement released earlier this morning and our earnings presentation. that are both available on our website at www.carols.com under the Investor Relations section. Before we begin our remarks, I would like to remind everyone that our discussion, including answers to questions posed to management, may include forward-looking statements or comments with respect to our strategies, intentions, or plans, and the future direction of revenues, input costs, or other aspects pertaining to our business. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, and therefore, undue reliance should not be placed on them. We also refer you to our filings with the SEC for more details, both with respect to forward-looking statements as well as risks that could impact our business and results, including, among other things, the impact of COVID-19. During today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP measures that we believe can be useful in evaluating our performance. The presentation of this additional information should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. And a reconciliation to comparable gap measures is available with our earnings relief. With that, I will now turn the call over to our chairman and CEO, Dan Accardino. Dan?