Exhibit 99.1

                Ark Restaurants Announces Declaration of Dividend

     NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2006--Ark Restaurants Corp.
(NASDAQ:ARKR) announced today that the Board of Directors declared its regular
quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share on the Company's common stock to be
paid on February 1, 2006 to shareholders of record at the close of business on
January 24, 2006.

     Ark Restaurants owns and operates 23 restaurants and bars, 26 fast food
concepts, catering operations and wholesale and retail bakeries. Eight
restaurants are located in New York City, four are located in Washington, D.C.,
nine are located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and two are located in Atlantic City, New
Jersey. The Las Vegas operations include three restaurants within the New
York-New York Hotel & Casino Resort and operation of the hotel's room service,
banquet facilities, employee dining room and nine food court concepts; four
restaurants and bars within the Venetian Casino Resort as well as four food
court concepts. In Las Vegas, the Company also owns and operates one restaurant
within the Forum Shops at Caesar's Shopping Center and one restaurant at the
Neonopolis Center at Fremont Street. The Florida operations under management
include five fast food facilities in Tampa, Florida and eight fast food
facilities in Hollywood, Florida, each at a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino operated
by the Seminole Indian Tribe at these locations.

     Forward-looking statements in this news release, if any, involve unknown
risks, and uncertainties that may cause the company's actual results or outcomes
to be materially different from those anticipated and discussed herein.
Important factors that might cause such differences are discussed in the
Company's fillings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


     CONTACT: Ark Restaurants Corp.
              Robert Towers, 212-206-8800
              bob@arkrestaurants.com