FIRST AMENDMENT TO STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

                               FIRST AMENDMENT TO
                            STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

     FIRST AMENDMENT TO STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this "Amendment"), dated as of
September 21, 2005, by and among (a) The Restaurant Holding Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), (b) TRC Holding Corp., a Delaware
corporation (the "Purchaser"), and (c) BancBoston Ventures Inc. and Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxx (the "Sellers' Representatives"), on behalf of and solely in their
capacity as representatives of all of the Sellers (as defined in the Stock
Purchase Agreement as hereinafter defined).

     WHEREAS, the Purchaser, the Company, the Sellers and the Sellers'
Representatives are parties to a Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of September
2, 2005 (the "Stock Purchase Agreement"); and

     WHEREAS, the Purchaser, the Company and the Sellers' Representatives, on
behalf of all of the Sellers in accordance with Section 10.14 of the Stock
Purchase Agreement, have agreed, subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, to modify certain provisions of the Stock Purchase Agreement;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premise and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the Purchaser, the Company and the Sellers' Representatives hereby
agree as follows:

     Section 1. DEFINITIONS. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Stock Purchase
Agreement as amended hereby.

     Section 2. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2.06(b) OF THE STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
The last sentence of Section 2.06(b) of the Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby
deleted in its entirety and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:

          "For purposes of determining the Working Capital as of the Closing,
     the inventory of Foxtail Foods shall be determined by a physical inventory
     taken by the Company at each facility of Foxtail Foods on Friday, September
     16, 2005 and Saturday, September 17, 2005 (with such determination rolled
     forward to the Closing Date in a commercially reasonable manner). Purchaser
     and its representatives shall have the right to observe such physical
     inventory."

     Section 3. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2.07(c)(i) OF THE STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
Section 2.07(c)(i) of the Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby deleted in its
entirety and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:

          "(i) if the Sellers are entitled to receive all of the Earn Out Escrow
     Amount, the Escrow Agent shall distribute (A) if approved by the
     shareholders of the Company in a vote satisfying the requirements of
     Section 280G of the Code, $960,000 to the Company to be used to satisfy
     obligations of the Company to participants under the SERP and (B)
     $4,040,000 ($5,000,000, if no amount is used as described in (A)) to the
     Sellers in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares;"



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     Section 4. CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS. This Amendment shall become
effective upon the execution and delivery of this Amendment by the Purchaser,
the Company and the Sellers' Representatives.

     Section 5. MISCELLANEOUS. Except as expressly set forth in this Amendment,
all of the terms and provisions of the Stock Purchase Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect. This Amendment may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by each party on a separate counterpart, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which together shall
constitute one instrument. In proving this Amendment, it shall not be necessary
to produce or account for more than one such counterpart signed by the party
against whom enforcement is sought. The validity and construction of this
Amendment shall for all purposes be governed by the internal laws (and not the
choice-of-law rules) of the State of Delaware.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties
hereto have caused this First Amendment to Stock Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed and delivered as of the date and year first above written.

                                        COMPANY:

                                        THE RESTAURANT HOLDING CORPORATION


                                        By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
                                            ------------------------------------
                                        Name:
                                        Title:


                                        PURCHASER:

                                        TRC HOLDING CORP.


                                        By: /s/ [Illegible]
                                            ------------------------------------
                                        Name:
                                        Title:


                                        SELLERS' REPRESENTATIVES:

                                        BANCBOSTON VENTURES INC.,
                                        as a Sellers' Representative


                                        By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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                                            Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
                                            Title: Vice President


                                        /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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                                        Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, as a Sellers'
                                        Representative