BJ’s Restaurants announced the opening of its two newest restaurants in Fort Worth, Texas, and Anaheim Hills, California, on October 31, 2011.
The new Fort Worth, Texas BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse is located at the intersection of Hulen St. and I-20 as the latest addition to Hulen Mall. The restaurant is approximately 8,500 square feet, contains seating for approximately 265 guests, and features BJ’s extensive menu including BJ’s signature deep-dish pizza, award-winning handcrafted beer and famous Pizookie dessert. BJ’s highly detailed, contemporary décor and unique video statement, including BJ’s 103″ plasma display as well as several high-definition flat panel televisions, creates a high energy, fun and family-friendly dining environment for everyone to enjoy. Hours of operation are from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight Sunday through Thursday, and 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
The new BJ’s restaurant in Anaheim Hills, California is the Company’s new, smaller footprint BJ’s Grill restaurant that is initially intended to serve as a live research and development restaurant. BJ’s Grill contains approximately 4,600 interior square feet, seats approximately 140 guests and features many of BJ’s most popular menu items including BJ’s signature deep-dish pizza, award-winning handcrafted beer and famous Pizookie dessert. BJ’s Grill also features an exhibition kitchen, a more contemporary design and decor package, different menus for lunch and dinner and a more personalized guest service model based on new point-of-sale technology driven by handheld tablets. In addition, the new restaurant features BJ’s signature video statement, including a 103″ plasma display and other high-definition flat panel televisions that create a high energy, fun and family-friendly dining environment for everyone to enjoy. Hours of operation are from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight Sunday through Thursday, and 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
“With these two openings, we are pleased to successfully complete our targeted expansion goal for 2011, “said Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. “Our Fort Worth and Anaheim Hills restaurants represent our 12th and 13th new restaurants for this year. Our Fort Worth, Texas restaurant represents our ninth restaurant in the Dallas/Fort Worth market and our 24th restaurant in Texas, where we have achieved some of our strongest comparable restaurant sales results during the past several years. Our new BJ’s Grill in Anaheim Hills, California is a smaller location in our home court market of Southern California that will initially serve as a live research and development restaurant for the Company. We currently intend to gradually apply the successful R&D efforts from this restaurant to our larger-format Brewhouse restaurants over time.
“BJ’s is looking forward to another successful year of expansion during 2012,” continued Deitchle. “We currently plan to open as many as 15 new restaurants next year, and we also plan to relocate one older restaurant to a new location that can accommodate a larger, more productive facility. We continue to believe that BJ’s will be one of just a few publicly-held casual dining restaurant companies that plans to achieve double-digit capacity growth during 2012 in terms of total restaurant operating weeks.” Investors are reminded that the actual number and timing of new restaurant openings for any given period is subject to a number of factors outside of the Company’s control, including weather conditions and factors under the control of landlords, contractors and regulatory/licensing authorities
BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 115 casual dining restaurants under the BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, BJ’s Pizza & Grill and BJ’s Grill brand names.
