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TO HOLDERS OF 10% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2010
Real Mex Restaurants, Inc. is offering to exchange (the "Exchange Offer") up to $105,000,000 of its newly registered 10% Senior Secured Notes due 2010 ("New Notes") for its outstanding 10% Senior Secured Notes due 2010 ("Existing Notes").
Briefly, you may either:
a. Tender all or some of your Existing Notes, along with a completed and executed Letter of Transmittal, and receive registered New Notes in exchange; or
b. Retain your Existing Notes.
All tendered Existing Notes must be received on or prior to , 2004 at 5:00 p.m., New York City Time, (the "Expiration Date"), as shown in the accompanying Prospectus.
Please review the enclosed Letter of Transmittal and Prospectus carefully. If you have any questions on the terms of the Exchange Offer or questions regarding the appropriate procedures for tendering your Existing Notes and the Letter of Transmittal, please call ( ) or write Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Corporate Trust Services, 707 Wilshire Blvd., 17th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017, Attn: Jeanie Mar.