WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., April 29, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Grill Concepts, Inc. (Nasdaq:GRIL), today announced that the company will present at the LD Micro Conference at 3:00 p.m. PT (6:00 p.m. ET), Tuesday, April 29, at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel. The slide presentation that will be used at the conference will be available to all interested parties at the Investor Relations section of the company's Web site, www.dailygrill.com and also will be furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission as an attachment to a Form 8-K.
In advance of the presentation, the company today reported preliminary same-store sales for its fiscal first quarter ended March 30, 2008. Consolidated preliminary same-store sales narrowed by 4.1 percent from the prior-year first quarter. Comparable restaurant sales at The Grill on the Alley and Daily Grill-branded restaurants declined 2.0 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively.
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; as well as a newly launched quick casual concept named In Short Order -- Daily Grill. The company operates 29 restaurants including five The Grill on the Alley-branded restaurants in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and San Jose, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Dallas, Texas; 23 Daily Grill restaurants in California; the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region; Houston and Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Memphis, Tennessee and Seattle, Washington; as well as one In Short Order -- Daily Grill in Seattle, Washington.