Notification of Interests

RNS Number : 4160O

Restaurant Group PLC

05 March 2009

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 28.125p each ('Shares').

On 5 March 2009 the Company made the conditional awards of Shares ('Awards') under The Restaurant Group Long Term Incentive Plan ('LTIP') detailed below.

Name	Conditional shares awards (number)	Potential matching awards (number)
Directors
Andrew Page	780,208	111,457
Stephen Critoph	300,000	75,000
Trish Corzine	287,500	71,874

PDMR
Robert Morgan	150,000	36,457

Awards granted under the LTIP will vest on the approval of the audited results of the Group for the year ending 31 December 2011 (i.e. March 2012), but only to the extent that certain performance criteria based on 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.

5 March 2009

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