BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Announces Date for Third Quarter 2011 Earnings Release and...

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. Announces Date for Third Quarter 2011 Earnings Release
and Conference Call

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Oct. 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BJ's Restaurants,
Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) today announced that it will release its third quarter 2011
results after the market closes on Thursday, October 20, 2011. The Company will
host an investor conference call at 2:00 p.m. (Pacific) that same day. The
conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet. To listen to the
conference call, please visit the "Investors" page of the Company's website
located at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com several minutes prior to the start of
the call to register and download any necessary audio software. An archive of
the presentation will be available for 30 days following the call.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 112 casual dining restaurants
under the BJ's Restaurant & Brewery(R), BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse(R) or BJ's
Pizza & Grill(R) 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 which produce and distribute BJ's critically acclaimed
handcrafted beers throughout the chain. The Company's restaurants are located in
California (54), Texas (23), Arizona (6), Colorado (4), Oregon (2), Nevada (5),
Florida (8), Ohio (3), 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 54 of our current 112
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