Michael Allen Flores | McDonald's Corp. |
Stephen J. Easterbrook | McDonald's Corp. |
Kevin M. Ozan | McDonald's Corp. |
Chris Kempczinski | McDonald's Corp. |
David Palmer | RBC Capital Markets LLC |
Anna Papp | Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC |
Karen Holthouse | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Brian Bittner | Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. |
Brett Levy | Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. |
John Glass | Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
Peter Saleh | BTIG LLC |
Jeff D. Farmer | Wells Fargo Securities LLC |
Will Slabaugh | Stephens, Inc. |
Alton K. Stump | Longbow Research LLC |
Matthew DiFrisco | Guggenheim Securities LLC |
Gregory R. Francfort | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Jeffrey Bernstein | Barclays Capital, Inc. |
David E. Tarantino | Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. |
Hello, and welcome to McDonald's October 24, 2017, Investor Conference Call. At the request of McDonald's Corporation, this conference is being recorded.
Following today's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session for investors. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Mike Flores, Investor Relations Officer for McDonald's Corporation.