CORRECTING and REPLACING -- BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Appoints Henry Gomez to Its Board...

CORRECTING and REPLACING -- BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Appoints Henry Gomez to Its
Board of Directors

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Sept. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a release issued
under the same headline earlier today by BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI),
please note that the second paragraph, first sentence should read: Recruited in
late 1999 to be the first leader of public relations and marketing
communications at eBay Inc., Gomez played an important role in building eBay's
brand in the years immediately following that company's IPO (rather than:
...public relations and marketing at eBay Inc.,...).

The corrected release follows:

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Sept. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BJ's Restaurants,
Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced the appointment of Henry Gomez to the
Company's Board of Directors as an independent director, effective immediately.
Mr. Gomez's appointment brings the total number of the Company's board members
to nine.

Recruited in late 1999 to be the first leader of public relations and marketing
communications at eBay Inc., Gomez played an important role in building eBay's
brand in the years immediately following that company's IPO. He eventually
assumed key operational roles at eBay, including Chief Marketing Officer and
later President of Skype, eBay's communication business at the time. Gomez
completed his tenure at eBay in 2008 as the company's Senior Vice President,
Corporate Affairs. He then founded HSG Communications, a boutique
communications consultancy and investment firm. From 1993 to 1999, Gomez served
as an executive with Home Box Office (HBO), the premium television network, with
his last position as Vice President, Corporate Affairs. Gomez began his business
career at the global public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton.

"We are very pleased to welcome Henry Gomez to our board of directors," said
Jerry Deitchle, Chairman and CEO. "Henry's extensive background and experience
in marketing, communications and public relations will be of significant value
to BJ's as we continue to build a national brand that delivers a higher quality,
more differentiated casual dining experience to consumers."

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.

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 109
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