Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (Carrols Restaurant Group) is a restaurant company in the United States operating three restaurant brands in the quick-casual and quick-service restaurant segments with 560 restaurants located in 17 states as of December 31, 2008. The Company owns and operates two Hispanic restaurant brands: Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana (together referred to as the Company’s Hispanic Brands). As of December 31, 2008, the Company-owned restaurants included 91 Pollo Tropical restaurants and 154 Taco Cabana restaurants, and it operated 315 Burger King restaurants under franchise agreements. Carrols Restaurant Group had also franchised its Hispanic brand restaurants with 29 franchised restaurants located in Puerto Rico, Ecuador and the United States as of December 31, 2008.