LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Grill Concepts, Inc. (Nasdaq:GRIL) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Philip Gay will be ringing The NASDAQ Stock Market's closing bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite at 4 Times Square on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 4:00 pm ET. He will be joined by Chief Financial Officer Wayne Lipschitz and co-Founders Robert Spivak, Director, and Michael Weinstock, Chairman.
"The Grill on the Alley and Daily Grill represent two proven, under-penetrated restaurant brands that provide promising long-term growth opportunities for the company," said Gay. "With an enhanced and blended management team, strengthened financial structure and performance momentum marked by strong same store sales comparisons, we look forward to accelerating our expansion plans to open four to five new restaurants per year."
Feed Information:
The closing bell is available from 3:50 p.m. to
4:05 p.m. on uplink IA-6 C-band/transponder 17. The
downlink frequency is 4040 Vertical; Audio 6.2-6.8.
The feed can also be found on Waterfront fiber 1623.
If you have any questions, please contact Jolene
Libretto at (646) 441-5220.
Webcast: A live Webcast of the NASDAQ Closing Bell Ceremony
will be available at the company's Web site,
www.dailygrill.com, under Grill Concepts /
Corporate Information, or at
http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_about.stm.
Scroll to the bottom of the page under the heading
MarketSite Live Web cam and click on MarketSite Web
Cam.
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Close, please go to
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About Grill Concepts, Inc.
Grill Concepts owns, manages and licenses upscale casual and fine dining, full service restaurants under two core brand names: The Grill on the Alley and Daily Grill. The company operates 25 restaurants including five The Grill on the Alley-branded restaurants in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and San Jose, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Dallas, Texas, as well as 20 Daily Grill restaurants in Southern and Northern California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region; Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and Skokie, Illinois.
This news release contains forward-looking statements, which are based on current operations, plans and expectations. Such statements include, but are not limited to, the company's ability to accelerate its expansion plans to open four to five new restaurants per year. Actual results may differ materially from these statements due to risks and uncertainties beyond the company's control, which are detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.