Bj’s Restaurants, Inc.
A casual-dining restaurant chain known for deep-dish pizzas, handcrafted beers, and its signature Pizookie dessert — a warm cookie baked in a pan and topped with ice cream. It began in 1978 in Santa Ana, California, when the founders had to scrap their planned name "BJ Grunts" after a trademark clash with Chicago's RJ Grunts restaurant, so it opened as BJ's Chicago Pizzeria instead, later evolving into BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse.