Dine Brands Global, Inc.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the DynBrands Global first quarter 2023 conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to the speakers today. Please go ahead.

Good morning and welcome to Dine Brands Global's first quarter 2023 conference call.

I'm Brett Levy, Dines Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasury. This morning's call will include remarks from John Payton, CEO, and Vance Chang, CFO. And as discussed last call, Tony Moralejo, President of Applebee's, and Jay Johns, President of IHOP, will be available following those remarks to address questions from the investment community in the Q&A portion of the call. Please remember our safe harbor regarding forward-looking information. During the call, Management may discuss information that is forward-looking and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, which may cause the actual results to be different than those expressed or implied. Please evaluate the forward-looking information in the context of these factors, which are detailed in today's press release and 10-Q filing. The forward-looking statements are as of today, and we assume no obligation to update or supplement these statements. We may also refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures, which are described in our press release and also available on Dine Brands' Investor Relations website. For calendar planning purposes, we are tentatively scheduling the release of our second quarter 2023 earnings after the market closed on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023, with a call the following day before the market opens. With that, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Dine's CEO, John Payton.