Carrols Restaurant subsidiary Fiesta Restaurant Group closes offering of US$200M of 8.875% senior secured second lien notes due 2016, enters into new US$85M senior credit facility

Graziela Medina Shepnick

Graziela Medina Shepnick

SYRACUSE, New York , August 5, 2011 (press release) – Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TAST), the parent company of Carrols Corporation (“Carrols”), announced today that its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. (“Fiesta Restaurant Group”), closed its previously announced offering of $200 million of 8.875% senior secured second lien notes due 2016. Fiesta Restaurant Group owns and operates the Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana restaurant businesses. The 8.875% senior secured second lien notes due 2016 are senior secured obligations of Fiesta Restaurant Group and are guaranteed by its material subsidiaries.

Concurrently with the closing of the offering of the 8.875% senior secured second lien notes due 2016 of Fiesta Restaurant Group, Carrols LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrols, also entered into a new $85 million senior credit facility providing for term loan borrowings of $65 million and a $20 million revolving credit facility. Fiesta Restaurant Group used the net proceeds of the offering of the 8.875% senior secured second lien notes due 2016, and Carrols LLC used term loan borrowings from its new senior credit facility, to distribute funds to Carrols to enable Carrols to (i) repurchase Carrols’ outstanding 9% senior subordinated notes due 2013 tendered pursuant to a previously announced cash tender offer and to pay the related tender premium, (ii) repay outstanding borrowings under the existing Carrols senior credit facility and (iii) pay related fees and expenses. Fiesta Restaurant Group and Carrols LLC will also use proceeds from the respective financings to distribute funds to Carrols to enable Carrols to redeem the balance of its outstanding 9% senior subordinated notes due 2013 not tendered in the tender offer, which has not yet expired.

The 8.875% senior secured second lien notes of Fiesta Restaurant Group were offered only to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and to non-U.S. persons in transactions outside the United States under Regulation S under the Securities Act. The 8.875% senior secured second lien notes of Fiesta Restaurant Group have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the U.S. or to U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

This press release is for informational purposes only and is not (i) an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase the 8.875% senior secured second lien notes of Fiesta Restaurant Group, or (ii) an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell, Carrols’ outstanding 9% senior subordinated notes due 2013.

About the Company

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., operating through its subsidiaries, including Carrols Corporation is one of the largest restaurant companies in the United States. The Company operates three restaurant brands in the quick-casual and quick-service restaurant segments with 550 company-owned and operated restaurants in 16 states as of July 3, 2011, and 35 franchised restaurants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Honduras, Trinidad, the Bahamas and Venezuela. Carrols Restaurant Group, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Fiesta Restaurant Group owns and operates two Hispanic Brand restaurant businesses, Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana. Carrols Restaurant Group is also the largest Burger King franchisee, based on number of restaurants, and has operated Burger King restaurants since 1976.

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