BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. has announced the opening of its newest restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 29, 2011. The new BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse is located on the northeast corner of Butler Boulevard and Gate Parkway next to the Costco Warehouse Club. The restaurant is approximately 8,500 square feet, contains seating for approximately 280 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 decor 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.
“We are very excited to bring the BJ’s restaurant concept to Jacksonville, Florida,” commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. “Our Jacksonville restaurant is our seventh restaurant in Florida, where we have recently been achieving some of our strongest increases in comparable restaurant sales. We continue to believe that Florida will be a very fertile development ground for the BJ’s restaurant concept going forward. Currently, all seven of our restaurants in Florida are located in the central and northern parts of the state. We plan to open our first restaurant in South Florida later this year in Pembroke Pines, and we have several more potential locations targeted for future development throughout the entire state. To date, we have opened seven new restaurants during 2011. We remain on track to open as many as five to six more restaurants this year, thereby achieving our stated expansion goal to open as many as 12 to 13 new restaurants during 2011.”
BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 109 casual dining restaurants under the BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse or BJ’s Pizza & Grill brand names. BJ’s restaurants offer an innovative and broad menu featuring award-winning, signature deep-dish pizza complemented with generously portioned salads, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, pastas, entrees and desserts. Quality, flavor, value, moderate prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ’s experience. The Company operates several microbreweries in addition to using qualified contract brewers to produce and distribute BJ’s critically acclaimed proprietary handcrafted beers throughout the chain. The Company’s restaurants are located in California (53), Texas (23), Arizona (6), Colorado (4), Oregon (2), Nevada (5), Florida (7), Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Kentucky (1), Indiana (1), Louisiana (1) and Washington (2). Visit BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. on the Web at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com .
