Mike Cieplak | Investor Relations Officer |
Steve Easterbrook | President and CEO |
Kevin Ozan | CFO |
Eric Gonzalez | KeyBanc |
Andrew Charles | Cowen |
John Glass | Morgan Stanley |
Matt DiFrisco | Guggenheim |
Brian Bittner | Oppenheimer |
David Tarantino | Baird |
Jeff Bernstein | Barclays |
Nicole Miller Regan | Piper Jaffray |
Jake Bartlett | SunTrust |
Greg Francfort | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Hello, and welcome to McDonald's First Quarter 2019 Investor Conference Call. At the request of McDonald's Corporation, this conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Mike Cieplak, Investor Relations Officer for McDonald's Corporation. Mr.