Kevin Kalicak | Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Analysis |
Gene Lee | Chief Executive Officer |
Rick Cardenas | Chief Financial Officer |
Matt DiFrisco | Guggenheim Securities |
David Tarantino | Robert W. Baird |
Joshua Long | Piper Jaffray |
Brett Levy | MKM Partners |
John Ivankoe | JPMorgan |
Andrew Strelzik | BMO Capital Markets |
Stephen Anderson | Maxim |
Dennis Geiger | UBS |
Eric Gonzalez | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
John Glass | Morgan Stanley |
Jake Bartlett | SunTrust |
Chris O’Cull | Stifel |
Peter Saleh | BTIG |
Jeffrey Bernstein | Barclays |
Thank you for standing by. We now welcome you to Darden Restaurants First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode and we will have question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please take note that we'll only take one question and one follow-up.
Now, let me hand the call over to your host, Kevin Kalicak.