---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-003722"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BJRI"
cik: "0001013488"
company_name: "BJs RESTAURANTS INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T19:32:26.160158+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BJ's Restaurants promotes Lyle Tick to CEO and President; CFO Houdek resigns

## Summary
- Lyle D. Tick appointed CEO and President effective June 5, 2025; previously President and Chief Concept Officer.
- Interim CEO C. Bradford Richmond becomes Special Advisor to CEO through Aug 22, 2025.
- CFO Thomas A. Houdek resigns effective June 20, 2025 to pursue outside opportunity.
- Board approved $1,000,000 special equity grant in performance share units vesting over 3 years tied to share price targets.
- Tick's compensation continues under existing employment agreement from August 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-003722
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BJRI
- cik: 0001013488
- company_name: BJs RESTAURANTS INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003722/0001171843-25-003722-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003722/f8k_060525.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-003722
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-003722.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-25-003722.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  C. Bradford Richmond resigned as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer at BJs RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Simultaneously with the promotion of Mr. Tick, C. Bradford Richmond resigned as the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer. In order to facilitate the transition, Mr. Richmond will serve as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer through August 22, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003722/0001171843-25-003722-index.htm
- Executive change
  Thomas A. Houdek resigned as Chief Financial Officer and a Senior Vice President at BJs RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer and a Senior Vice President
  source text: Thomas A. Houdek, the Chief Financial Officer and a Senior Vice President of the Company, notified the Company that he would be leaving the Company effective June 20, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003722/0001171843-25-003722-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lyle D. Tick changed role as Chief Executive Officer and President at BJs RESTAURANTS INC.
  - Action: promoted
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer and President
  source text: Lyle D. Tick, the Company’s current President and Chief Concept Officer, had been promoted to the role of Chief Executive Officer and President effective June 5, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013488/000117184325003722/0001171843-25-003722-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.