BJ's Restaurant & Brewery

BJ's Restaurant & Brewery
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: BJRI
Industry Alcoholic beverage
Founded 1978
Headquarters Huntington Beach, California
Products Beer

BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 159 casual dining restaurants under the name BJ's Restaurant & Brewery.

The company operates several breweries, which produce and distribute BJ's beers throughout the chain.

History

The BJ's in Hillsboro, Oregon

BJ's was founded in 1978 and first opened in Orange County, California. By 1996, seven restaurants had opened between San Diego and Los Angeles. Originally known as Chicago Pizza & went public about 1996, raising $9.4 million.[1] The company then bought 26 Pietro's Pizza restaurants in March 1996 in a $2.8 million deal in cash and assumed debt, but then sold off seven of the locations with plans to convert the remaining Pietro's to what was then BJ's Pizza.[1] Between 2010 and 2011, the National Retail Federation named it as one of the 10 fastest growing restaurants in the U.S. based on year-over-year sales.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rose, Michael (November 17, 1996). "BJ's Pizza to revamp Pietro's with breweries, remodeling". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  2. ↑ Luna, Nancy (August 2, 2012). "BJ's Among Fastest-Growing Chains". The Orange County Register.

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Coordinates: 33°44′05″N 117°59′42″W / 33.734774°N 117.995082°W