949373--3/3/2008--EINSTEIN_NOAH_RESTAURANT_GROUP

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Failure to protect food supplies and adhere to food safety standards could result in food-borne illnesses and/or injuries to our guests. Damage to our reputation for serving high quality, safe food could adversely affect our results. Changes in consumer preferences and discretionary spending priorities could harm our financial results. Increasing commodity prices would adversely affect our gross profit. We may not be successful in implementing any or all of the initiatives of our business strategy. Our sales and profit growth could be adversely affected if comparable store sales are less than we expect. Competition in the restaurant industry is intense, and we may fall short of our revenue and profitability targets if we are unable to compete successfully. We occupy our company-owned restaurants under long-term non-cancelable leases, and we may be unable to renew leases at the end of their lease periods or obtain new leases on acceptable terms. The cost of natural resources, such as energy, together with the cost, availability and quality of our raw ingredients affect our results of operations. Our operations may be negatively impacted by adverse weather conditions and natural disasters. We have single suppliers for most of our key ingredients, and the failure of any of these suppliers to perform could harm our business. Failure of our distributors to perform adequately or any disruption in our distributor relationships could adversely affect our business and reputation. Increasing labor costs could adversely affect our results of operations and cash flows. We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flow to make payments on our substantial amount of debt and mandatorily redeemable preferred stock. We must comply with certain covenants inherent in our debt agreements to avoid defaulting under those agreements. We face the risk of adverse publicity and litigation in connection with our operations. A regional or global health pandemic could severely affect our business. Our franchisees and licensees may not help us develop our business as we expect, or could actually harm our business. Our restaurants and products are subject to numerous and changing government regulations. Failure to comply could negatively affect our sales, increase our costs or result in fines or other penalties against us. We may not be able to protect our trademarks, service marks and other proprietary rights. Our ability to use net operating loss carryforwards to offset future taxable income for U.S. federal income tax purposes is subject to limitation. We have a majority stockholder. Future sales of shares of our common stock by our stockholders could cause our stock price to fall.

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