Result of AGM

Restaurant Group PLC
25 May 2006


The Restaurant Group

Results of AGM


At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 24 May 2006, all of the
resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed.

The proxy votes received on each resolution were as follows:

Resolution                                            Votes For    Votes Against       Votes Withheld
     
1.   To receive and adopt the report of the         141,558,359          911,064              103,391
     directors and the audited accounts for the 
     year ended 1 January 2006.
     
2.   To approve the Director's remuneration         129,576,764        2,233,610           10,762,440
     report for the year ended 1 January 2006
     
3.   To approve a final dividend of 3.84p           142,566,726            5,644                  444
     per share for the year ended 1 January 2006
     
4.   To re-elect Alan Jackson as a Director         140,378,992          931,048            1,262,774
     of the Company
     
5.   To re-elect Andrew Thomas as a                 142,394,135          170,569                8,110
     Director of the Company
     
6.   To re-elect John Jackson as a Director         129,159,103        1,049,587           12,364,124
     of the Company
     
7.   To re-elect BDO Stoy Hayward LLP as            141,534,826        1,033,547                4,441
     auditors of the Company until the conclusion 
     of the next general meeting
     
8.   To authorise the Directors to allot            142,499,660           60,197               12,957
     shares in the Company up to a nominal amount 
     of £18,779,113
     
9.   To authorise the Directors to allot            142,493,892           65,107               13,815
     shares in the Company in limited                
     circumstances up to nominal amount of 
     £2,725,202 without first offering those 
     shares to existing shareholders on a pro 
     rata basis
     
10.  To authorise the Company to make market        141,974,834          175,850              422,130
     purchases of up to 10% of its own issued 
     share capital subject to certain conditions
     
11.  To amend the Articles of Association of        124,236,517       12,207,903            6,128,394
     the Company regarding indemnification and
     insurance
     
12.  To amend the Articles of Association to        142,340,909          212,783               19,122
     allow for payment of loans to fund defence
     costs                                          
     
13.  To amend the Articles of Association of        141,980,175          127,088              465,551
     the Company to permit aggregate fees of
     non-executive Directors to be paid to a 
     maximum of £500,000                                    

14.  To amend the Articles of Association to        142,488,569           70,842               13,403
     provide that shares that are bought back by 
     the Company can be held in treasury                


Notes:
     
1)   The total number of shares in issue at 24 May 2006 is 193,813,229

2)   Where shareholders have appointed the Chairman of the meeting as their 
     proxy with discretion as to voting, those votes have been cast in favour of 
     the resolutions and are included in the total of those votes for.
     
3)   It should be noted that the appointment of a proxy is not an unequivocally 
     precise indicator of the way that shareholder would have voted on a poll; 
     it reflects their intention at the time the instruction was given. Voting 
     instructions can be given at any time prior to a poll being completed, and 
     a shareholder may lodge a proxy vote and still attend the meeting and vote
     as they see fit.

4)   Certified copies of the special resolutions (numbers 8 to 14) have been
     delivered to the UKLA in accordance with LR 9.6.2 for placing on its 
     Document Viewing Facility



For further information please contact:

Robert Morgan, Company Secretary, The Restaurant Group plc, 020 7747 7750


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