Director/PDMR Shareholding

Restaurant Group PLC
06 March 2008


The Restaurant Group PLC
06 March 2008

                            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 6 March 2008 the Company made conditional awards of Shares ('Awards') under
The Restaurant Group Long Term Incentive Plan ('LTIP') detailed below.

                                  Conditional             Potential 
                                shares awards       matching awards 
Name                                 (number)              (number)
                                       
Directors
Andrew Page                           645,689                90,084
Stephen Critoph                       248,275                58,188
Kevin Bacon                           284,482                62,067
Trish Corzine                         237,931                54,310

PDMRs
Robert Morgan                         120,689                25,000
Danny Breithaupt                      127,586                42,671
Angelo Gabrilatsou                    113,793                37,500

Awards granted under the LTIP will vest on the approval of the audited results 
of the Group for the year ending 31 December 2010 (i.e. March 2011), 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. 


Enquiries

The Restaurant Group plc, Tel.: [phone]
Robert Morgan, Company Secretary



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