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Note 4 -Debt
6 Months Ended
Aug. 14, 2011
Debt Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE 4 – DEBT

The Company’s debt arrangements require the maintenance of a consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.20 to 1 regarding all of the Company’s loans and the maintenance of individual restaurant fixed charge coverage ratios of between 1.20 and 1.50 to 1 on certain of the Company’s individual restaurant loans.  A portion of the Company’s debt also contains a funded debt to EBITDAR (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent) requirement of 5.5.  Fixed charge coverage ratios are calculated by dividing the cash flow before rent and debt service for the previous 12 months by the debt service and rent due in the coming 12 months.  In the calculation of funded debt to EBITDAR, funded debt is the next twelve month operating lease obligation times eight plus the debt balance at the measurement date.  The funded debt is then divided by the prior twelve month EBITDAR to obtain the calculated ratio.  The consolidated and individual ratios are all computed quarterly.  As of August 14, 2011, the Company was not in compliance with the consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.2 or with the funded debt to EBITDAR ratio of 5.5.  As of the measurement date of August 14, 2011, the Company’s consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio was 0.98 to 1 and funded debt to EBITDAR was 6.6.  Also, at the end of the fiscal second quarter of 2012 the Company was not in compliance with the individual fixed charge coverage ratio on 23 of its restaurant properties including five closed locations.  The Company has not obtained waivers with respect to the non-compliance from the applicable lenders at August 14, 2011, May 22, 2011 and at February 27, 2011.

The Company has engaged the services of a financial advisor to renegotiate its existing financing arrangements and to raise replacement capital to fund its required restaurant image enhancement obligations discussed in Note 6.  As disclosed previously in its public filings, in April 2011 the Company began deferring the payment of principal and paying interest only on substantially all of its debt as part of a strategy to engage in the negotiation of recapitalization of its debt and in order to conserve operating cash while adjusting to the closure of twelve restaurants during April 2011.  As a result of this event of default, all of the Company’s debt is classified as current in the balance sheets as of August 14, 2011 and February 27, 2011 since waivers of non-compliance were not obtained.  As previously disclosed in Form 8-K’s, the Company was granted, by its lenders, a waiver of the prepayment penalties on substantially all of its debt that contains prepayment provisions and forbearance until December 31, 2011 in order to pursue its plan to recapitalize its existing debt using a combination of new debt and sale/leaseback financing, which structure contemplates the payment of the debt on which it has not met its loan covenants.  If the recapitalization plan is not executed successfully by the deadline in the forbearance agreements and the Company does not resume making periodic payments of principal, the respective lenders will have certain remedies available to them which include calling the debt and the acceleration of payments.  Noncompliance with the requirements of the Company’s debt agreements could also trigger cross-default provisions contained in the respective agreements.

Management expects that it will be able to complete the financial restructuring successfully.  Nonetheless, given the level of the Company’s indebtedness and the cash requirements to fund image enhancement requirements under certain KFC restaurant franchise agreements, there can be no assurance that the Company’s KFC franchisor will consent to the restructuring, that the restructuring will be accomplished, or that other actions might not be taken by lenders that would impede the Company’s ability to satisfy its obligations.  Consequently, there would be substantial doubt that the Company will be able to continue as a going concern, and therefore, if applicable, the Company may be unable to realize its asset carrying values and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business. The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts and classification of liabilities that may be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.