THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 6:29 PM EASTERN TIME

PRESS RELEASE

SOURCE: Roadhouse Grill, Inc.

Involuntary Petition Filed Against Roadhouse Grill

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2002--ROADHOUSE GRILL, INC.
(Nasdaq:GRLL - news), a full service, casual dining restaurant operator, today
announced that on January 18, 2002, an involuntary Chapter 11 petition was filed
against Roadhouse Grill, Inc. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of Florida by three entities related to CNL Restaurant
Properties, Inc., (three related landlords). Chapter 11 is the reorganization
provision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code under which a company may continue its
operations, restructure its indebtedness and emerge from Chapter 11 as a
reorganized enterprise.

Roadhouse Grill, Inc. had been in negotiations with the petitioning creditors in
an effort to effect an out-of-court restructuring - a process favored by all of
the Company's other major creditors and one which the Company believed was in
the best interest of its constituencies. The Company has just recently completed
an internal restructuring and believes that it has positioned itself to execute
its business plan.

Roadhouse Grill, Inc. has twenty days to respond to this involuntary petition
and has not yet determined whether it is in the best interests of its
constituencies to contest the petition, if the petition is not withdrawn
voluntarily. In any event, the Company will continue to conduct its operations
in the ordinary course of its business, whether under Chapter 11 protection or
not.

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements that are made
pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. This press release includes forward-looking statements
(including the Company's belief as to its ability to execute its business plan
and the Company's intention to continue to conduct its operations in the
ordinary course of business whether under Chapter 11 protection or not) based
largely on the Company's expectations which are subject to a number of risks and
uncertainties, including but not limited to the Company's net losses; outcome of
the pending inquiries by the SEC; the Company's ability to reach an agreement
with its lender with regard to a waiver of certain covenant violations and an
amendment to the financial covenants contained in certain of its loan facilities
and the Company's ability to comply with such financial covenants in the future;
the likelihood that the Company will not be able to cure past payment defaults
under certain of its loan facilities which may result in an acceleration of the
amounts owed under the Company's loan facilities; availability of financing; the
Company's ability to acquire adequate food supply and to obtain favorable food
costs; changes in consumer preferences, tastes and eating habits; the
availability of qualified labor; competition from other restaurants;
construction delays; increase in interest rates; and national, regional and
local economic and weather conditions and other factors discussed elsewhere in
the Forms 10-K and 10-Q and other documents filed by the Company with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Many of these factors are beyond the
Company's control. Actual results could differ materially from these
forward-looking statements. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can
be no assurance that the forward-looking information contained in this press
release will, in fact, occur. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, unless required by law. For copies of Roadhouse
Grill's recent press releases via fax, at no charge, please call (888) 329-8932.

CONTACT:

         Roadhouse Grill, Inc., Pompano Beach
         Ayman Sabi or Harry Rosenfeld, 954/957-2600
         http://www.roadhousegrill.com