BJ's Restaurants Opens in College Station, Texas

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., July 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BJ's Restaurants,
Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced the opening of its newest restaurant in
College Station, TX on July 11, 2011. The new BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is
located at the intersection of Texas 6 and Harvey Road as the latest addition to
the 800,000 square foot Post Oak Mall. 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(R) 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 College Station,"
commented Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. "Opening day sales were very strong,
coupled with quality execution by our restaurant operations team. The College
Station restaurant is our sixth new restaurant opening to date for 2011. We
remain on track to open as many as 12 to 13 new restaurants in total during this
year." Investors are reminded that the actual number and timing of new
restaurant openings 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 108 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 (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.

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, future guest traffic, 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 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 53 of our current 108
restaurants are located, (viii) restaurant and brewery industry competition,
(ix) impact of certain brewery business considerations, including without
limitation, dependence upon suppliers, third party contractors 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
service-mark 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, including its
recent reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. The "forward-looking" statements
contained in this press release are based on current assumptions and
expectations and 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.

CONTACT: Greg Levin
BJ's Restaurants, Inc.
(714) 500-2400