Media Release

HERO CERTIFIED BURGERS BEEFS UP LETTIERI'S
WITH TWO EXCITING NEW CONCEPTS

(TORONTO, CANADA-May 20, 2004)
With coffee houses springing up all around Metro Toronto long time Canadian owned Lettieri Espresso Bar + Cafés are proud to announce the opening of two dramatically new stores that will change the way Torontonians think about gourmet burgers and coffee shops.

Hero Certified Burgers is overjoyed to announce its first combo store, matching Hero Certified Burgers and Lettieri Espresso Bar + Café at 230 Commerce Valley Drive and providing juicy 100% certified angus beef burgers.

In conjunction with the grand opening of the combo store Lettieri's flagship Belair store, in Toronto's Yorkville shopping district, has recently reopened at 94 Cumberland after some exciting renovations. However, it is the Hero Certified Burgers combo store, at Commerce Valley, the first of its kind in Southern Ontario that is creating a buzz with food critics, hamburger aficionados, and coffee lovers alike.

Combo owners, Fazal Bhamami (Lettieri Espresso Bar + Café) and Tazeem Walji (Hero Certified Burgers) says of the new store, "We are proud to be the flagship combo store leading the way as a showpiece for future Lettieri and Hero franchisees."

For more information please contact:

Anthony Ascrizzi
Director of Operation
Tel: (416) 740-2304
Cel: (416) 890-5987

Lettieri Head Office
129 Turbine Drive
Toronto, Ontario M9L 2S7
Telephone 416.740.2304

For more information or franchise applications please visit www.lettiericafe.com or www.heroburgers.com