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We may fail to reach our Company s sales and growth goals, which may negatively impact our continued financial and operational success. We may be unable to remain competitive because we are a leveraged company with restrictive financial covenants, and any potential inability to meet financial covenants contained in any of our indebtedness or guarantees could adversely affect our liquidity, financial condition, or results of operations. We may not be successful at operating profitable restaurants. The inability of our franchises to operate profitable restaurants may negatively impact our continued financial success. We may be required to recognize additional impairment charges. Economic, demographic and other changes, seasonal fluctuations, natural disasters, and terrorism could adversely impact guest traffic and profitability in our restaurants. The potential for increased commodity, energy, and other costs may adversely affect our results of operations. We face continually increasing competition in the restaurant industry for locations, guests, staff, supplies, and new products. Litigation could negatively impact our results of operations as well as our future business. The cost of compliance with various government regulations may negatively affect our business. We are dependent on key personnel. Food safety and food-borne illness concerns could adversely affect consumer confidence in our restaurants. Changes in financial accounting standards and subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management related to complex accounting matters could significantly affect our financial results. We could be adversely impacted if our information technology and computer systems do not perform properly or if we fail to protect customers credit card data.

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