Ark Restaurants Corp. (ARKR) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Greetings and welcome to the Arc Restaurant's first quarter 2026 results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. It is now my pleasure to introduce to your host, Press Secretary Christopher Love. Thank you. You may begin. Thank you, Operator. Good morning and thank you for joining us on our conference call for the first quarter ended December 27th. My name is Christopher Love, and I am the Secretary of Arc Restaurant. With me on the call today is Michael Weinstein, our Chairman and CEO, and Anthony Sirica, our President and CFO. For those of you who have not yet obtained a copy of our press release, it was issued over the news wires yesterday and is available on our website. To review the full text of that press release, along with the associated financial tables, please go to our homepage at www.arcrestaurant.com. Before we begin, however, I'd like to read the safe harbor statement. I need to remind everyone that part of our discussion this morning will include forward-looking statements and that these statements are not guarantees of future performance, and therefore, undue reliance should not be placed on them. We refer everyone to our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for more detailed discussion of the risks that may have a direct bearing on our operating results, performance, and financial conditions. I'll now turn the call over to Michael. Hi. Before I get going, let's have Anthony go over the balance sheet and anything that was significant and was really a quiet quarter. So, Anthony, you go ahead. Yep. Real quick, as you saw in the release, our adj...