Keri August
Senior VP of Finance & Accounting and Company Secretary
Good afternoon, women and gents, and welcome to the Good Occasions Eating places Inc. Fiscal 2025 Fourth Quarter and Yr-end Earnings Name. I’m Keri August, the corporate’s Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting.
By now, everybody ought to have entry to the corporate’s earnings launch, which is obtainable within the Traders part of the corporate’s web site. As a reminder, part of in the present day’s dialogue will embrace forward-looking statements throughout the that means of federal securities legal guidelines.
These forward-looking statements will not be ensures of future efficiency, and due to this fact, you shouldn’t put undue reliance on them. These statements contain identified and unknown dangers, which can trigger the corporate’s precise outcomes to vary materially from outcomes expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
Such dangers and uncertainties embrace, amongst different issues, the market worth of the corporate’s inventory prevailing on occasion, the character of different funding alternatives offered to the corporate, the disruption to our enterprise from pandemics and different public well being emergencies; the impression of staffing constraints at our eating places, the impression of provide chain constraints and inflation, the unsure nature of present restaurant improvement plans and the flexibility to implement these plans and combine new eating places.
Delays in growing opening new eating places due to climate, native allowing or different causes, elevated competitors, price will increase or ingredient shortages, basic financial and working circumstances, dangers related to our share repurchase program, dangers related to the acquisition of extra eating places, adequacy of money flows and the associated fee and availability of capital or credit score facility borrowings to offer liquidity.
