P.F. Chang's revenue grew to $8.4 million in the quarter,compared with $8.2 million in the third quarter of 2004, with thecompany citing the closing of its Bistro restaurant in Metairie, LAas one of a number of reasons for flat sales. It has also loweredits fourth quarter revenue expectations from $219 million to $214million, in part due to the closing of the Louisiana restaurant aswell as locations in Florida.

Nonetheless, the hurricanes were just one part of the problem atthe restaurant company during the quarter, according to RobertVivian, its president. Vivian said during Wednesday's regularquarterly conference call that P.F. Chang's performed at a lessthan stellar level even without the impact of the hurricanes.

"It was not a high-quality quarter by any stretch of theimagination," Vivian said, adding that the company was not going touse the hurricanes as a scapegoat. "The weather simply eliminatedour capacity to improve our performance during the quarter," hesaid. As of Wednesday, three of the restaurant company's Bistrosand one of its Pei Wei diners were closed due to lack of power andtwo were "limping along due to a mandated curfew" that reduced thehours of operation, Vivian said.