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Granite City Food & Brewery Opens in West Wichita, Kansas
Granite City Food & Brewery Opens in West Wichita, Kansas

�We are very pleased with this opportunity to have a presence on the west side of Wichita,� said Steve Wagenheim, Granite City Food & Brewery�s President and CEO. �We opened today to a great lunch crowd and look forward to a long lasting relationship with the Wichita community. We are on track with our 2006 expansion strategy with four new store openings scheduled throughout the Midwest in the coming months.�

Wagenheim said the company plans to open restaurants in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska by the end of 2006.

Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. (www.gcfb.net) currently operates 14 Granite City Food & Brewery casual dining restaurants featuring made-from-scratch food and handcrafted beers. Its broad menu offers traditional and regional foods served in generous portions at reasonable prices, affording guests an excellent value and great dining experience. Its first Granite City location, in St. Cloud, MN, opened in June 1999. Subsequently, the Company opened restaurants in Sioux Falls, SD, Fargo, ND, West Des Moines, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Davenport, IA, Lincoln, NE, Maple Grove and Eagan, MN, Kansas City, Olathe and East and West Wichita, KS and Kansas City, Missouri.

Certain statements made in this press release of a non-historical nature constitute �forward-looking statements� within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Such factors include, but are not limited to, changes in economic conditions, changes in consumer preferences or discretionary consumer spending, a significant change in the performance of any existing restaurants, the ability to obtain financing for, and complete construction of, additional restaurants at acceptable costs, our ability to implement and execute Fermentus Interruptus and the risks and uncertainties described in our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 27, 2005, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 27, 2006.
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Contact:
Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd.
Steven J. Wagenheim, 952-215-0678
www.gcfb.net