BJ's Restaurant & Brewery is open

From BJ's:

BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced the opening of its newest restaurant in Colorado Springs, CO on August 30, 2010. The new BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse is located at the intersection of I-25 and N. Nevada Avenue in the University Village shopping center. The restaurant is approximately 8,000 square feet, contains seating for approximately 280 guests, and also 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.

“We are very excited to open our newest restaurant in Colorado Springs, which achieved solid opening-day sales in line with our expectations,” commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. “Our Colorado Springs restaurant is our fourth restaurant in the state of Colorado, joining our three other successful restaurants in Aurora, Westminster and Boulder. To date, we have opened seven new restaurants during 2010. We currently expect to open as many as three more restaurants before the end of this year, thus achieving our previously stated expansion goal for 2010. Our next opening is currently planned in Sparks, NV before the end of our current third quarter, followed by expected openings in Puente Hills, CA and Houston, TX during our upcoming fourth quarter. Our new restaurant development pipeline for 2011 is firming up quite solidly at this point, and we will provide a more detailed update on expansion objectives for next year on our third quarter 2010 investor conference call in late October.”
BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 99 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, entrées and desserts. Quality, flavor, value, moderate prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ’s experience. The Company operates several microbreweries which produce and distribute BJ’s critically acclaimed handcrafted beers throughout the chain. The Company’s restaurants are located in California (50), Texas (19), Arizona (6), Colorado (4), Oregon (2), Nevada (3), Florida (6), 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.

BJ’s Restaurant and Brewery

5150 North Nevada Avenue
(719) 268-0505