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  Hudson's Grill of America, Inc.              For Immediate Release 
  16970 Dallas Parkway                      Contact: Thomas A. Sacco 
  Suite # 402                                Telephone: 972-931-9237 
  Dallas, Texas 75248-1928            e-mail: sacco@hudsonsgrill.com 
     
      Hudson's Grill Announces the Election of a New Director and
  the Status of Various Openings and Closings of Restaurants
  
      Monday, July 21, 1997
      
      
      Dallas, TX -  Hudson's Grill of America, Inc., announced that
  on July 14, 1997, its directors elected Robert W.  Fischer to fill
  a vacancy on the Board of Directors.  Mr.  Fischer has been
  Hudson's Grill's outside legal counsel since 1993 and has been
  involved with restaurants in the Dallas, Texas area for over 14
  years.  He has represented restaurants and has also operated them
  during this period.  He is a partner in the law firm of Fischer &
  Sanger and is also a C.P.A.
  
      The Company also announced several closings and some
  prospective openings of restaurants.  Hudson's Grill anticipates
  that new restaurants will be opening in Guatemala City, Guatemala,
  in August 1997, and one will be opening in Abingdon, Virginia,
  before Christmas 1997.
  
      As of July 13, 1997, an affiliate of Hudson's Grill has taken
  over the Westlake, California Hudson's Grill, and will run it
  until a buyer can be found.  The location had been under a pending
  contract of sale, but the buyer and Hudson's Grill mutually agreed
  to terminate its sale.  The prospective buyer had been operating
  the restaurant pending its sale.
  
      Hudson's Grill terminated its Burnet Road franchisee in
  Austin, Texas; the franchisee had filed for bankruptcy protection
  in May, but then decided to convert the case to a chapter 7
  liquidation.  In addition, Hudson's Grill's franchisee closed its
  Hudson's Grill food court operation in the Garden State Mall in
  Paramus, New Jersey.  This was an experimental site; it was the
  first Hudson's Grill to be adapted for use in a food court
  location in a shopping mall.  Additionally, Hudson's Grill noted
  that its franchise development agreements with Dr. S.L. Sethi and
  with Jotar, Inc., have terminated because both developers had
  failed to build or have under construction the required number of
  restaurants.
  
      The Company also announced that it had reduced the amount it
  was paying for consulting services provided by Dalms, Inc., which
  is the consulting company that provides the services of Thomas A.
  Sacco, the Company's Senior Vice President and director.  The
  consulting agreement is now based at $90,000 per year with
  incentives based on the number of new Hudson's Grill franchises
  found by Dalms, Inc. 
  
      Hudson's Grills are celebrating their 13th year of operation,
  and the Company is publicly traded over the counter under the
  NASDAQ symbol HDSG.