Result of EGM & Name Change

City Centre Restaurants PLC
14 January 2004

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14 January 2004



Recommended Offer by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein on behalf of City Centre
Restaurants plc ('City Centre' or 'the Company') for ASK Central plc ('ASK
Central')



                        Result of EGM and change of name



The Board of City Centre is pleased to announce that all resolutions, relating
to the approval of the Offer for ASK Central, the Placing and the change of
name, were duly passed at the EGM of the Company held earlier today. City Centre
Restaurants Shareholders either attending in person or voting by proxy held more
than 54 per cent. of the Company's ordinary issued share capital. All
resolutions were passed by the requisite majority. Of proxies received, over 99
per cent. of votes were in favour of the resolutions.



Following the change of name from City Centre Restaurants plc to The Restaurant
Group plc, it is expected that, with effect from 16 January 2004, the London
Stock Exchange mnemonic of the Company will change from CTC to RTN. The Offer as
set out in the Offer Document dated 22 December 2003 remains unaffected and the
change of name does not affect the Form of Acceptance under the Offer.



The words and expressions defined in the Offer Document dated 22 December 2003
shall apply for the purpose of this announcement.



Enquires:


City Centre Restaurants plc                                     020 7747 7750

Alan Jackson, Executive Chairman
Andrew Page, Group Managing Director

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein                                  020 7623 8000

Charles Batten
Christopher Baird

College Hill                                                    020 7457 2020

Matthew Smallwood





Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the
UK by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for City Centre
and for no one else in connection with the Offer and the Placing and will not be
responsible to anyone other than City Centre for providing the protections
afforded to customers of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Limited, or for
affording advice in relation to the Offer and the Placing or any matters
referred to in this announcement.



The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of
the mails of, or by any facilities of a national, state or other securities
exchange of any US Restricted Jurisdiction, Canada, Australia, Japan or any
other jurisdiction if to do so would constitute a violation of the relevant laws
of such jurisdiction and the Offer should not be accepted by any such use,
means, instrumentality or facility, or from within any US Restricted
Jurisdiction, Canada, Australia, Japan or any such other jurisdiction and doing
so may render invalid any purported acceptance of the Offer. Accordingly, copies
of this announcement and any documents related to the Offer are not being and
must not be mailed, forwarded, sent, transmitted or otherwise distributed in,
into or from any US Restricted Jurisdiction, Canada, Australia, Japan or any
such other jurisdiction and all persons receiving such announcement (including,
without limitation, custodians, nominees and trustees) should observe these
restrictions and must not distribute, forward, mail or transmit or send them
into or from any US Restricted Jurisdiction, Canada, Australia, Japan or any
such other jurisdiction.



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