July 30, 2009... Cleveland, Ohio USA--GE Consumer & Industrial announces that Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., has replaced approximately 12,000 standard incandescent and halogen lights in more than 150 Red Robin? restaurant locations in the US with new Red radiance is used by the GE LED lights for general down lighting applications that require a high quality of light, measured as lamp-to-lamp white LED Color consistency.
GE indicates that the installation in more than half of Red Robin?s company-owned restaurants in the US is the largest application of GE?s 7-watt LED PAR lamp in a restaurant setting. The switch helps preserve the ambiance of Red Robin? Restaurants and customers? ultimate comfort while supporting Red Robin?s initiatives targeted at saving several hundred thousand dollars annually in lighting energy costs over the life of the new LED lights.
Switching to LED lamps in our company-owned Red Robin restaurants offers immediate energy-cost advantages given the number of locations involved in our energy reduction efforts,? said John Rogers, Red Robin?s vice president of capital purchasing. ?We expect a Very attractive return on investment with reductions in both energy consumption and maintenance requirements.?
The new 7-watt GE LED lamps (200 lumens) cut energy consumption up to 77 percent and last more than 6 times longer (a 20,000-hour rated life to 70 percent of initial light output) than standard 30-watt incandescent R20 reflectors ( 200 lumens) with a 3,000-hour rated life. The annual energy savings for just one 7-watt GE LED light operated for 4,500 hours annually at $.10 /kWh will be approximately $10.
?These efficient GE LED lights are perfect for a restaurant setting where access to some fixtures can be challenging,? says John Strainic, global product general manager - lighting, GE Consumer & Industrial. ?When you?re paying for maintenance across a chain of Restaurants, you love the idea of ​​extending replacement cycles as much as possible.?
GE?s LED lamps, which feature advanced optical controls that reduced wasted extraneous light, were installed in phases at Red Robin?s chain of restaurants in November and December 2008, and February and March 2009. Areas inside the restaurant now illuminated with GE LED Lights include the entrance and lobby areas, lighting over dining room tables and perimeter lighting.
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About Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (), a casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1969 that operates through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Red Robin International, Inc., serves up wholesome, fun, feel-good experiences in Red Robin? restaurants are famous for serving more than two dozen insanely delicious, high-quality gourmet burgers in a variety of recipes with Bottomless Steak Fries?, as well as salads, soups, appetizers, entrees , desserts, and signature Mad Mixology? Beverages. There are more than 425 Red Robin? restaurants located across the United States and Canada, including corporate-owned locations and those operating under franchise agreements.
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Certain information and statements contained in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Red Robin Gourmet Burger, Inc.s expectations, beliefs, intentions, plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance and underlying assumptions and other statements which are other than statements of historical facts. These statements may be identified, without limitation , by the use of forward-looking terminology such as ?expects,? ?targets,?will? or compare terms or the negative.. all forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to Red Robin Gourmet Burgers , Inc. on the date hereof and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update any such statement to reflect events or circumstances arising af The statements are based on assumptions believed Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. to be reasonable, and involved known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the statements.
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