For Immediate Release The Toronto Stock Exchange: BPF.UN
BOSTON PIZZA INTERNATIONAL ADDS 13 NEW RESTAURANTS OPENED IN 2016
TO THE ROYALTY POOL OF BOSTON PIZZA ROYALTIES INCOME FUND
VANCOUVER, BC, JANUARY 3, 2017 - Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund (the “Fund”) (TSX: BPF.UN) and Boston Pizza International Inc. (“BPI”) announced today that effective January 1, 2017, the Fund’s royalty pool (the “Royalty Pool”) has been adjusted to include the 13 new full service restaurants opened across Canada between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016 (the “Period”), and to remove the two full service restaurants that were permanently closed during the Period. With the adjustment for these openings and closures during 2016, the Royalty Pool now includes 383 Boston Pizza restaurants. This is the fifteenth consecutive year of adding new Boston Pizza restaurants into the Royalty Pool.