Cosi, Inc. to Present at the Annual B. Riley & Co. and Great American Group Consumer Conference
September 21 2015 - 8:46PM
Così, Inc. (NASDAQ:COSI), the fast casual restaurant company, today
announced that R. J. Dourney, CEO & President of Cosi, will be
presenting September 16, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. (Eastern), at the B.
Riley & Co. and Great American Group Consumer Conference being
held in New York City at the New York Athletic Club on that date.
Additionally, Mr. Dourney and Miguel Rossy-Donovan, CFO of Cosi,
will be participating in one-on-one meetings with investors at the
conference. Interested investors should contact the conference
organizers at B. Riley & Co. Conference Team at
conference@Brileyco.com.
The link for the presentation will be available on the Company's
website at www.getcosi.com, "Investor Information," under "Upcoming
Events," for a period of 90 days.
About Così, Inc.
Così® (http://www.getcosi.com) is a national fast casual
restaurant chain that has developed featured foods built around a
secret, generations-old recipe for crackly crust flatbread. This
artisan bread is freshly baked in front of customers throughout the
day in open-flame stone-hearth ovens prominently located in each of
the restaurants. Così's warm and urbane atmosphere is geared
towards its sophisticated, upscale, urban and suburban guests.
There are currently 79 Company-owned and 31 franchise restaurants
operating in sixteen states, the District of Columbia, Costa Rica
and the United Arab Emirates. The Così vision is to become
America's favorite fast casual restaurant by providing customers
authentic, innovative, savory food while remaining an affordable
luxury.
The Così® menu features Così® sandwiches, freshly-tossed salads,
bowls, breakfast wraps, melts, soups, Squagels®, flatbread pizzas,
S'mores, snacks and other desserts, and a wide range of coffee and
coffee-based drinks and other specialty beverages. Così®
restaurants are designed to be welcoming and comfortable with an
eclectic environment. Così's sights, sounds, and spaces create a
tasteful, relaxed ambience that provides a fresh and new dining
experience.
"Così," "(Sun & Moon Design)" and related marks are
registered trademarks of Così, Inc. in the U.S.A. and certain other
countries. Copyright © 2015 Così, Inc. All rights reserved.
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REFORM ACT OF 1995. This press release contains statements that
constitute forward- looking statements under the federal securities
laws. Forward-looking statements are statements about future events
and expectations and not statements of historical fact. The words
"believe," "may," "will," "should," "anticipate," "estimate,"
"expect," "intend," "objective," "seek," "plan," "strive," or
similar words, or negatives of these words, identify forward-
looking statements. We qualify any forward-looking statements
entirely by these cautionary factors. Forward-looking statements
are based on management's beliefs, assumptions and expectations of
our future economic performance, taking into account the
information currently available to management. Forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our
actual results, performance or financial condition to differ
materially from the expectations of future results, performance or
financial condition we express or imply in any forward-looking
statements. Factors that could contribute to these differences
include, but are not limited to: the results being reported in this
release are unaudited and subject to change; the cost of our
principal food products and supply and delivery shortages and
interruptions; labor shortages or increased labor costs; changes in
demographic trends and consumer tastes and preferences, including
changes resulting from concerns over nutritional or safety aspects
of beef, poultry, produce, or other foods or the effects of
food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli, "mad cow disease" and avian
influenza or "bird flu"; competition in our markets, both in our
business and in locating suitable restaurant sites; our operation
and execution in new and existing markets; expansion into new
markets including foreign markets; our ability to attract and
retain qualified franchisees and our franchisees' ability to open
restaurants on a timely basis; our ability to locate suitable
restaurant sites in new and existing markets and negotiate
acceptable lease terms; the rate of our internal growth and our
ability to generate increased revenue from our existing
restaurants; our ability to generate positive cash flow from
existing and new restaurants; fluctuations in our quarterly results
due to seasonality; increased government regulation and our ability
to secure required government approvals and permits; our ability to
create customer awareness of our restaurants in new markets; the
reliability of our customer and market studies; cost effective and
timely planning, design and build out of restaurants; our ability
to recruit, train and retain qualified corporate and restaurant
personnel and management; market saturation due to new restaurant
openings; inadequate protection of our intellectual property; our
ability to obtain additional capital and financing; adverse weather
conditions which impact customer traffic at our restaurants; and
adverse economic conditions. Further information regarding factors
that could affect our results and the statements made herein are
included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Additional information is available on Così's
website at http://www.getcosi.com in the investor relations
section.
CONTACT: Miguel Rossy-Donovan
Chief Financial Officer
(857) 415-5020
InvestorRelations@getcosi.com