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 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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