Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us, and welcome to the Q2 2026 Good Times Restaurants, Inc. Earnings Call. I will now hand the conference over to Keri August, Chief Accounting Officer. Please go ahead.

Keri August
Senior VP of Finance & Accounting and Corporate Secretary

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Good Times Restaurants, Inc. Fiscal 2026 Second Quarter Earnings Call. I am Keri August, the company's Chief Accounting Officer. By now, everyone should have access to the company's earnings release, which is available in the Investors section of the company's website. As a reminder, a part of today's discussion will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and therefore, you should not put undue reliance on them. These statements involve known and unknown risks, which may cause the company's actual results to differ materially from results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the market price of the company's stock prevailing from time to time; the nature of other investment opportunities presented to the company; the disruption to our business from pandemics and other public health emergencies; the impact of staffing constraints at our restaurants; the impact of supply chain constraints and inflation; the uncertain nature of current restaurant development plans and the ability to implement those plans and integrate new restaurants; delays in developing and opening new restaurants because of weather, local permitting or other reasons, increased competition, cost increases or ingredient shortages, general economic