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         FINE HOST APPOINTS PRICE WATERHOUSE AS NEW INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

         Greenwich, Conn. -- February 11, 1998 -- Fine Host Corporation (NASDAQ:
FINE) announced today that it has engaged Price Waterhouse LLP as its
independent auditors for the fiscal year ended December 26, 1997. Price
Waterhouse replaces Deloitte & Touche LLP, which served as the Company's
independent auditors since 1985.

         Fine Host Corporation provides food and beverage concession and
catering services to more than 900 facilities, primarily through multi-year
contracts in the following markets: the recreation and leisure market (arenas,
stadiums, amphitheatres, civic centers and other recreational facilities); the
convention center market; the education market (colleges, universities and
elementary and secondary school nutrition programs); the business dining market
(corporate cafeterias, office complexes and manufacturing plants); the health
care market (long-term care facilities and hospitals); and the corrections
market (prisons and jails).

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