Eat'n Park Hospitality Group Chooses Connexstar Service by Spacenet For Broadband Restaurant Network

McLean, VA, March 1, 2004 - Spacenet Inc. today announced it has been selected to provide a Connexstar VSAT network to all Eat'n Park restaurant locations across the Northeastern United States.

Under the terms of the 36-month agreement, Spacenet will deploy its Connexstar CX-500 broadband service at all Eat'n Park family restaurants. This network will support a range of retail networking applications, including point of sale polling, credit and gift card authorization, and corporate intranet applications.

The move to always-on broadband connectivity is an important step for Eat'n Park, and it was critical for us that our networking service provider be able to support our current applications as well as our future plans,” said Kevin O'Connell, Eat'n Park Senior Vice President. Our adoption of Spacenet's Connexstar service as our restaurant-wide broadband platform enables us to deploy advanced retail technologies while further enhancing the Eat'n Park in-store customer experience. Spacenet has been very responsive since our first contact and their service and support have been outstanding throughout our evaluation process – in fact, our experience with the company as a whole has been excellent.”

Spacenet CEO Bill Gerety said,Eat'n Park is the latest in a rapidly growing list of leading companies to recognize the advanced capabilities and superior economics that Connexstar brings to restaurant operators. Spacenet's experience in serving the restaurant industry is second to none, and we are very pleased with the continued success of our Connexstar service in meeting the needs of this growing market segment. While we have worked hard to ensure our service excels both in terms of performance and economics, we are especially gratified that Eat'n Park has been equally impressed with the customer support aspects of our service as well, and we look forward to serving Eat'n Park's connectivity needs now and in the future.”

About Eat'n Park Hospitality Group
Eat'n Park Hospitality Group is a portfolio of foodservice concepts focused on personalized dining. Founded in 1949 as a carhop restaurant, today the Pittsburgh-based company has grown to include Eat'n Park Restaurants, Park Classic Diners, Parkhurst Dining Services and CURA Hospitality. Eat'n Park Restaurants is a tri-state family restaurant and bakery chain with 79 restaurants and more than 8,000 employees company-wide. Two of Eat'n Park's properties are Park Classic Diners, which are retro restaurants reminiscent of the company's roots. Parkhurst Dining Services is a contract dining services division of the group, which focuses on retail dining, and works to provide a unique dining experience for colleges, universities, and corporate dining facilities. CURA Hospitality provides dining and contract management services to senior living communities.