Noodles & Company (NDLS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Noodles & Company (NDLS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call July 24, 2026 8:30 AM EDT

Company Participants Michael Hynes - Chief Financial Officer Joseph Christina - President, CEO & Director Conference Call Participants Todd Brooks - The Benchmark Company, LLC, Research Division Presentation Operator Good morning, and welcome to today's Noodles & Company's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call.

Michael Hynes Chief Financial Officer Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our second quarter 2026 earnings call. Here with me is Joe Christina, our Chief Executive Officer. I'd like to start by going over a few regulatory matters. During the call, we may make forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company. Any such items should be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Such statements are only projections, and actual events or results could differ from those projections due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those referred to in this morning's news release and the cautionary statement in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC. During the call, we will discuss non-GAAP measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating the company's operating performance. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is available in our second quarter of 2026 earnings release. To the extent that the company provides guidance, it does so only on a non-GAAP basis and does not provide reconciliations of forward-looking non-GAAP measures. Quantitative reconciling information for