BJ's Restaurants, Inc. to Present at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Consumer & Retail Technology Conference on March 15

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., March 08, 2016 -- BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (Nasdaq:BJRI) announced today that Greg Trojan, President and Chief Executive Officer and Greg Levin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be making a company presentation at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Consumer & Retail Technology Conference on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 1:50 p.m. ET.  The conference will be held at the Lotte New York Palace in New York.  In addition to making a company presentation, Messrs. Trojan and Levin will participate in a fireside chat and will meet with institutional investors at the conference throughout the day on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

BJ's Restaurants’ PowerPoint presentation will be available on the Company's website, http://www.bjsrestaurants.com, at 4:45 p.m. PT (1:45 p.m. ET) Tuesday, March 15, 2016. The presentation can be accessed by clicking on the "Investors" link from the Company's home page followed by the "Presentation" link.  If you have questions about BJ's Restaurants or are interested in conducting a conference call with management please contact JCIR at 212/835-8500 or [email protected].

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 172 casual dining restaurants under the BJ's Restaurant & Brewery®, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse®, BJ's Pizza & Grill® and BJ’s 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, including the Pizookie® dessert.  Quality, flavor, value, moderate prices and sincere service remain distinct attributes of the BJ’s experience.  All restaurants feature BJ’s critically acclaimed proprietary craft beers, which are produced at several of the Company’s restaurant and brewery locations, its two brewpubs in Texas and by independent third party craft brewers.  The Company's restaurants are located in the 22 states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Visit BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. on the Web at http://www.bjsrestaurants.com for locations and additional information.

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. 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. Investors are referred to the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with forward-looking statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K.

For further information, please contact Greg Levin of BJ's Restaurants, Inc. at (714) 500-2400 or JCIR at (212) 835-8500 or at [email protected].