Timothy FitzGerald | VP & CFO |
Selim Bassoul | Chairman, President & CEO |
David Brewer | COO, Commercial Foodservice Equipment |
Joel Tiss | BMO Capital Markets |
Timothy Wojs | Robert W. Baird & Co. |
James Clement | The Buckingham Research |
Lawrence De Maria | William Blair & Company |
Thank you for joining the Middleby Second Quarter Conference. With us from management today are the Chairman and CEO, Selim; Chief Financial Officer, Tim FitzGerald; and Chief Operating Officer, David Brewer.
We will start today's call with remarks from management and then open the line for questions. [Operator Instructions]. I'd like to now turn the conference to Mr.