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At Red Robin, we continue to look at how we can make a difference in our communities through practices that recycle, reduce and reuse resources.

For example, through our recent switch to energy-efficient LED lighting in our company-owned restaurants, we’re reducing energy consumption. Our LED lighting program alone is expected to save more than 5 ½ million kilowatt hours of electricity every year. In terms of the impact on our environment, this is roughly equal to:

In addition, our solar power program is harvesting the power of the sun and feeding electricity back to the electric utility grid using rooftop solar panels. Red Robin currently is piloting solar panels at three of our Colorado restaurants. While our pilot is in its early stages, we already are able to contribute to lower demand for electric power generation from local power plants and help reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions.

We’re also testing an energy management system in our restaurants to allow heating, ventilation, air conditioning, exterior lighting and signage to operate more efficiently. Wherever we can, we install high-efficiency heating, air conditioning, refrigeration and fryers.

Red Robin also has a number of initiatives underway to promote recycling and reduce waste including the following:

• Discontinued paper payroll checks to eliminate the paper, energy, ink and transportation associated with more than 400,000 payroll checks every year
• Migrating vendors to electronic funds transfer to reduce paper usage even more
• Reducing water consumption with lower-usage fixtures at all new restaurants, installing low-flush toilets in all new restaurants, and lower-water-consumption dessert dipping station in all new restaurants later in 2010
• Working with suppliers to reduce the amount of packaging materials
• Introducing energy-efficient TVs in all new restaurants and for all future replacements, reducing energy consumption by an average of 33% per unit
• Red Robin Home Office program to recycle paper; cardboard; glass, plastic, steel and aluminum containers; and other office waste
• Recycling fryer oil at roughly two-thirds of our 300 company-owned restaurants –and keeping the used fryer oil at 100% of our restaurants out of the waste stream
• Using a new eco-friendly kids’ cup that saves more than 213,000 pounds of resin per year

We know we can do more to promote practices that are good for the environment, so we formed the Red Robin Green Team to help identify more ways we can make a difference in our communities. We’ll keep you posted on our progress through future updates on our web site.