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A new buyer is negotiating to purchase the Hamburger Hamlet chain from troubled Prandium Inc. after talks collapsed with Othello Holding Corp.

Spokesman Robert Carl Robert Carl (b.1954) received his musical training at Yale, Penn, and the University of Chicago. He also studied in Paris during 1980-1 as a Lurcy Fellow at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure and the Sorbonne.  wouldn't identify the interested party, but said Prandium still expects to file a prepackaged pre·pack·age  
tr.v. pre·pack·aged, pre·pack·ag·ing, pre·pack·ag·es
To wrap or package (a product) before marketing.

Adj. 1.
 Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May. A majority of the company's 600 bondholders must approve the filing.

The company, which also operates Koo Koo Roo, a fast-food chicken chain, and Chi-Chi's, a Mexican-food chain, has been mired mire  
n.
1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.

2. Deep slimy soil or mud.

3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty.

v.
 in $28.8 million in debt and defaulted last year on long-term loans held with Foothill Capital Corp.

Prandium sold its 95-unit El Torito The format developed by Phoenix Technologies and IBM that has become the standard for creating bootable CD-ROMs on the Intel platform. El Torito provides only the format. In order to make a CD-ROM bootable, the correct boot images must be placed on the disc, and the target computer must  eateries to Long Beach-based Acapulco Mexican Restaurants Inc. for $129 million in 2000.

Once Prandium reorganizes and establishes lower interest rates for its loans, the company wants to remodel re·mod·el  
tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els
To make over in structure or style; reconstruct.
 its existing Chi-Chi's and Koo Koo Roo restaurants and develop new eateries.

Staff reporter Deborah Belgum can be reached at (323) 549-5225 ext. 228, or at dbelgum@labusinessjournal.com.
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Title Annotation:Prandium Inc. selling Hamburger Hamlet restaurant chain
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Author:Belgum, Deborah
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Apr 22, 2002
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