Director/PDMR Shareholding

Restaurant Group PLC
08 December 2005


For immediate release                                  8 December 2005


                            The Restaurant Group Plc

                                (the 'Company')


   Notification of Interests of Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial
                 Responsibility ('PDMR') and connected persons


The Company announces the following conditional changes to the interests of
Directors and PDMRs in the Company's ordinary shares of 25p each ('Shares').


On 7 December 2005 the Company made the conditional awards of Shares ('Awards')
under the The Restaurant Group Long Term Incentive Plan ('LTIP') detailed below.
  Details of the LTIP were provided in the circular sent to shareholders dated
21 October 2005 and approved at an extraordinary general meeting of the Company
on 9 November 2005.


Executive Directors:

 Name        Role            Conditional shares     Potential matching     Total options 
                              award (number)        shares award (number)  and awards now held (number)





Alan      Executive               137,755                 103,316            1,681,178
Jackson   Chairman

Andrew    Group                   180,272                  67,602            1,426,090
Page      Managing
          Director

Stephen   Finance                 112,244                  42,091              454,335
Critoph   Director

Kevin     Managing                119,047                  44,642              842,753
Bacon     Director,
          Leisure

Trish     Managing                102,040                 38,265               553,272
Corzine   Director,
          The Concession
          Connection



PDMRs:


 Name          Role            Conditional shares     Potential matching     Total options 
                               award (number)         shares award (number)  and awards now held (number)


Robert        Company                 28,911                7,227              293,821
Morgan        Secretary

Danny         Deputy                  30,612               22,959              283,612
Briethaupt    Managing Director,
              Frankie & Benny's

Angelo        Operations              30,612               22,959              365,930
Gabrilatsou   Director,
              Chiquito and
              Garfunkel's



Awards granted under the LTIP will vest on the approval of the audited results
of the group for the year ending 31 December 2008 (i.e. March 2009), but only to
the extent that certain performance criteria based on earnings per share growth
and, in respect of awards granted to the directors and certain senior executives
only, total shareholder return have been satisfied by the Company over a three
year performance period.  Matching shares awards are granted on the condition
that they will not vest unless the participant has acquired a certain number of
Shares (known as 'Deposited Shares'). No consideration is payable for the grant
of the Awards and the receipt of Shares is conditional upon meeting the
performance criteria and, in the case of matching shares awards only, the
acquisition and holding of Deposited Shares.  It is intended that the Company's
employee benefit trust will acquire Shares necessary to fulfil any obligation
arising from the vesting of the Awards.


The notification of these Awards is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under Section 324 of the Companies Act 1985 and Disclosure Rule
3.1.4.  A further announcement will be made as and when appropriate.



Enquiries

The Restaurant Group Plc, Tel.: [phone]

Robert Morgan, Company Secretary





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