For Immediate Release Toronto Stock Exchange: BPF.UN
BOSTON PIZZA ROYALTIES INCOME FUND ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER 2006 DISTRIBUTION
VANCOUVER, BC, October 10, 2006 - Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX: BPF.UN) announced today a cash distribution of 10.9 cents per unit for the period from September 1, 2006 to September 30, 2006. The distribution will be paid to unitholders of record at the close of business on October 21, 2006 and will be payable on October 31, 2006.
Same Store Sales Growth for the period January 1, 2006 through August 31, 2006 was 8.9%, compared to the same period last year.
Royalties paid to the Fund will be adjusted annually to include the franchise revenues of the new Boston Pizza restaurants opened prior to December 31 of each year. Since January 1, 2006, 24 new full-service restaurants have opened, bringing the total number of restaurants open in Canada as of October 10, 2006 to 250.
The Fund is a limited purpose, open-ended trust established under the laws of British Columbia to acquire indirectly certain trade marks and trade names used by Boston Pizza International Inc. ("BPI") in its Boston Pizza restaurants in Canada. The trade marks are licensed to BPI for 99 years for which BPI pays the Fund 4% of franchise revenues of its 226 Boston Pizza restaurants in Canada as at December 31, 2005.
The trustees of the Fund have approved the contents of this news release.
® Boston Pizza Royalties Limited Partnership. All Boston Pizza registered Canadian trade-marks and unregistered Canadian trade-marks containing the words "Boston", "BP", and/or "Pizza" are trade-marks owned by the Boston Pizza Royalties Limited Partnership and licensed by the Boston Pizza Royalties Limited Partnership to Boston Pizza International Inc.
© Boston Pizza International Inc. 2006