RB 21 2020 Preliminary Sales update Q2 2020;AmRest Holdings SE("AmRest", the "Group") hereby provides a business update on the secondquarter preliminary sales, comparable sales trends and the status ofstore re-openings.;During the second quarter of 2020, a periodsignificantly impacted by the restrictions implemented to contain thespread of COVID-19, the ability to effectively operate restaurants waslimited in most of our markets. As a result, the group's preliminarysales in the respective period amounted to EUR 272m, implying a 43.6%decrease compared to the same period of last year. The decline comparesto a 7.4% drop in sales in Q1 2020, a period less severely impacted dueto the implementation of restrictions only during the second part ofMarch and following a strong start of our business into the year untilthen.;With the gradual easing of restrictions and re-opening of storestowards the second part of Q2 2020, overall sales and same store salestrends tangibly improved on a month by month basis.;At the end of Aprilabout 56% of AmRest restaurants were open and operating mainly withdelivery, drive-thru and take-away, which resulted in 66.9% drop insales compared to the same period of last year.;In May both numbersimproved, with 81% of opened restaurants at the end of the month and40.7% decline in sales.;At the end of June about 92% of restaurants wereoperating and the sales trend improved further with a decline of 24.4%year-on-year.;For comparison, in March sales decreased by 45.0% with 44%of restaurants operating at the end of the month but most of theclosures started in the second half.;As of August, 11, around 96% of therestaurants were operating.;On a same-store-sales basis excluding F/Xand adjusting for temporarily closed stores, the index reached 91.1% inQ1 2020 and 67.8% in Q2 2020. The results were improving on a month bymonth basis along with the easing of dine-in limitation and socialrestrictions as the index went from the bottom of 48.8% in April to68.7% in May and 78.8% in June year-on-year. In March it reached64.0%.;Preliminary sales of the CEE division amounted to EUR 133.6m inQ2 2020 and were 34.3% lower compared to Q2 2019. The Russian segmentgenerated revenues of EUR 22.3m in Q2 2020, 57.1% lower compared to thecorresponding period in 2019. Sales in the Western Europe division in Q22020 amounted EUR 92.4m, which was lower by 52.8% compared to Q2 2019.In China, sales amounted EUR 19.2m in Q2 2020, a decrease of 21.0% overthe year. Revenues reported under segment "Other" reached EUR 4.6m andwere 38.9% lower than year ago.;Reacting to the challenges presented, wehave grown our delivery and drive thru capabilities to mitigate some ofthe losses we have faced in dine-in traffic. Sales through delivery anddrive-thru channels in our equity business increased over the year byaround 70% in the month of May and 51% in June.;Legal act: Art. 17 Sec.1 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of The European Parliament and of TheCouncil of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Regulation) andrepealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of theCouncil and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC