BJ`s Restaurants, Inc. to Present at the Following Conferences in June

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
BJ`s Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI) today announced that management will be
presenting at three investor conferences during the month of June. The details
of the conferences are listed below:

* William Blair 29th Annual Growth Stock Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel,
Chicago, IL - The presentation will begin at approximately 10:50am (Central) on
Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
* Piper Jaffray 29th Annual Consumer Conference at the Westin New York at Times
Square, New York, NY - The presentation will begin at approximately 10:00am
(Eastern) on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.
* Stern Agee 1st Annual West Coast Consumer Conference at the Fairmont Hotel,
San Francisco, CA, on Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

The formal presentations for the William Blair and Piper Jaffray conferences
will be broadcast over the Internet. Interested parties can listen to the
presentations by accessing the "Investors" page of the Company`s website located
at www.bjsrestaurants.com. To access the live simulcast of either presentation,
please go to the Company's website at least 15 minutes prior to the presentation
to download and install any necessary audio software. Archives of the webcasts
will be made available following the live presentation for a period of 30 days
from the date of the presentation. The Stern Agee conference format does not
include a formal presentation by management, but instead includes a series of
investor one-on-one meetings.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 84 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 (44), Texas (13), Arizona
(5), Colorado (3), Oregon (2), Nevada (3), Florida (5), Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2),
Kentucky (1), Indiana (1), Louisiana (1) and Washington (2). The Company also
has a licensing interest in a BJ's restaurant in Lahaina, Maui. Visit BJ's
Restaurants, Inc. on the Web at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com.

Certain statements in the preceding paragraphs and all other statements that are
not purely historical constitute "forward-looking statements" for purposes of
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby.
Such statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding expected
comparable restaurant sales growth in future periods, those regarding the effect
of new sales-building initiatives, as well as those regarding the number of
restaurants expected to be opened in future periods and the timing and location
of such openings. These "forward-looking" statements involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results to be
materially different from those projected or anticipated. Factors that might
cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (i) the effect of recent
credit and equity market disruptions on our ability to finance our continued
expansion on acceptable terms, (ii) our ability to manage an increasing number
of new restaurant openings, (iii) construction delays, (iv) labor shortages, (v)
minimum wage increases, (vi) food quality and health concerns, (vii) factors
that impact California, where 44 of our current 84 restaurants are located,
(viii) restaurant and brewery industry competition, (ix) impact of certain
brewery business considerations, including without limitation, dependence upon
suppliers and related hazards, (x) consumer spending trends in general for
casual dining occasions, (xi) potential uninsured losses and liabilities, (xii)
fluctuating commodity costs and availability of food in general and certain raw
materials related to the brewing of our handcrafted beers and energy, (xiii)
trademark and servicemark risks, (xiv) government regulations, (xv) licensing
costs, (xvi) beer and liquor regulations, (xvii) loss of key personnel, (xviii)
inability to secure acceptable sites, (xix) limitations on insurance coverage,
(xx) legal proceedings, (xxi) other general economic and regulatory conditions
and requirements, (xxii) the success of our key sales-building and related
operational initiatives and (xxiii) numerous other matters discussed in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. BJ's Restaurants,
Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or alter its "forward-looking"
statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For further information, please contact Greg Levin of BJ`s Restaurants, Inc. at
(714) 500-2400.

BJ`s Restaurants, Inc.
Greg Levin, (714) 500-2400

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