Good Times Restaurants Reports Q42018 and Fiscal Year End Results

Good Times Restaurants Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIM), operator of Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, a full-service, upscale burger bar concept, and Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard, a regional quick-service restaurant chain focused on fresh, high-quality, all-natural products, today announced its preliminary unaudited financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 25, 2018.

Key highlights of the Company’s financial results vs prior year include:

• Total revenues increased 19% to $26,796,000 for the quarter and increased 25% to $99,240,000 for the year, which reflects the addition of nine new Bad Daddy’s restaurants during the year
• Same store sales for company-owned Good Times restaurants increased 0.5% for the quarter and increased 4.2% for the year on top of last year’s increases of 3.9% for the quarter and 2.1% for the year
• Adjusted for the impact of Hurricane Florence, same store sales for company-owned Bad Daddy’s restaurants increased 0.7% for the quarter and 0.8% for the year on top of last year’s increases of 1.4% for the quarter and 1.6% for the year
• The company opened five restaurants during the fiscal fourth quarter, bringing the total new restaurants opened during fiscal 2018 to nine
• Income from Operations improved from a loss of $1,422,000 to income of $372,000 for the year, which includes the impact of $2,784,000 of new store preopening costs incurred in fiscal 2018
• Restaurant Level Operating Profit (a non-GAAP measure) for Bad Daddy’s restaurants improved 50% to $3,136,000 in the fourth quarter from $2,081,000 in the fourth quarter last year*
• Total Restaurant Level Operating Profit (a non-GAAP measure) increased 26% to $4,318,000 for the quarter and increased 30% to $16,111,000 for the year*
• Net Loss Attributable to Common Shareholders for the year narrowed to $324,000 for the quarter and $1,034,000 for the full fiscal year
• Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) for the quarter increased 38% to $1,805,000 and increased 52% to $5,758,000* for the fiscal year
• The Company ended the year with $3.5 million in cash and $7.5 million of long term debt

Boyd Hoback, President & CEO, said, “We are very pleased with our results for the quarter and fiscal year, including our adjusted EBITDA that was slightly ahead of the upper end of our guidance for the fiscal year. Even though labor costs continue to be a pressure point on our operating margins, Bad Daddy’s Restaurant Level Operating Profit margin improved to 17% for the year from 15.8% last year.”

Commenting on fiscal 2019, Hoback added, “At the end of the fiscal year, we opened two new Bad Daddy’s restaurants, one in the Atlanta metro area and one in Greenville, South Carolina and subsequent to year end we’ve opened one additional restaurant in the Atlanta metro area with another restaurant scheduled to open on January 2, 2019 in the Raleigh metro area. During our first fiscal quarter of 2019, our Good Times and Bad Daddy’s sales have been negatively impacted by much more inclement weather compared to last year, including the loss of approximately 10 store days due to the snow storm in North Carolina. The new Atlanta & Greenville, South Carolina restaurants have had relatively softer openings than the high honeymoon sales we experienced in our fiscal 2017 and 2018 openings, so we’ve moderated our development schedule for the balance of the year as we fine tune our site selection model for accelerated growth in fiscal 2020. As a result, we expect our first fiscal 2019 quarter’s results to be negatively impacted which is reflected in our overall fiscal 2019 guidance.”

Fiscal 2019 Outlook:

The Company has updated its guidance for fiscal 2019 to reflect its adjusted development expectations:

• Total revenues of approximately $112 million to $114 million with a year-end revenue run rate of approximately $120 million
• Total revenue estimates assume same store sales of approximately -2% to -3% for the year for Good Times due to inclement weather in Q1 and Q2 compared to unseasonably warm weather in the prior year, and approximately +1 to +2% for Bad Daddy’s
• General and administrative expenses of approximately $8.4 million to $8.6 million, including approximately $500,000 of non-cash equity compensation expense
• The opening of 5 to 6 new Bad Daddy’s restaurants
• Net loss of approximately $0.9 million, including preopening expenses of approximately $1.6 million
• Total Adjusted EBITDA* of approximately $6.0 million to $6.5 million
• Capital expenditures (net of tenant improvement allowances) of approximately $7.0 - $7.5 million including approximately $0.6 million related to fiscal 2020 development
• Debt balance at the end of the year between $11.0 and $11.5 million

About Good Times Restaurants Inc.: Good Times Restaurants Inc. (GTIM) owns, operates, franchises and licenses 34 Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar restaurants through its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar is a full service, upscale, “small box” restaurant concept featuring a chef driven menu of gourmet signature burgers, chopped salads, appetizers and sandwiches with a full bar and a focus on a selection of craft microbrew beers in a high energy atmosphere that appeals to a broad consumer base. Additionally, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Good Times Restaurants Inc. operates and franchises a regional quick service restaurant chain consisting of 35 Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard restaurants, located primarily in Colorado.

Supplemental Information:

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measurements to US GAAP Results

Certain percentage amounts in the table above do not total due to rounding as well as the fact that restaurant operating costs are expressed as a percentage of restaurant revenues, as opposed to total revenues.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measurements to US GAAP Results

Certain percentage amounts in the table above do not total due to rounding as well as the fact that restaurant operating costs are expressed as a percentage of restaurant revenues, as opposed to total revenues.

The Company believes that restaurant-level operating profit is an important measure for management and investors because it is widely regarded in the restaurant industry as a useful metric by which to evaluate restaurant-level operating efficiency and performance. The Company defines restaurant-level operating profit to be restaurant revenues minus restaurant-level operating costs, excluding restaurant closures and impairment costs. The measure includes restaurant level occupancy costs, which include fixed rents, percentage rents, common area maintenance charges, real estate and personal property taxes, general liability insurance and other property costs, but excludes depreciation. The measure excludes depreciation and amortization expense, substantially all of which is related to restaurant level assets, because such expenses represent historical sunk costs which do not reflect current cash outlay for the restaurants. The measure also excludes selling, general and administrative costs, and therefore excludes occupancy costs associated with selling, general and administrative functions, and preopening costs. The Company excludes restaurant closure costs as they do not represent a component of the efficiency of continuing operations. Restaurant impairment costs are excluded, because, similar to depreciation and amortization, they represent a non-cash charge for the Company’s investment in its restaurants and not a component of the efficiency of restaurant operations. Restaurant-level operating profit is not a measurement determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) and should not be considered in isolation, or as an alternative, to income from operations or net income as indicators of financial performance. Restaurant-level operating profit as presented may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. The tables above set forth certain unaudited information for the fiscal quarters and fiscal years ended September 25, 2018 and September 26, 2017, expressed as a percentage of total revenues, except for the components of restaurant operating costs, which are expressed as a percentage of restaurant revenues.