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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors
Brinker International, Inc.:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Brinker International Inc. and
subsidiaries (‘‘the Company’’) as of June 25, 2008 and June 27, 2007, and the related consolidated
statements of income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period
ended June 25, 2008. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based
on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made
by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our
audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material
respects, the financial position of Brinker International, Inc. and subsidiaries as of June 25, 2008 and
June 27, 2007, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the
three-year period ended June 25, 2008, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board (United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 25, 2008, based
on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated August 22, 2008 expressed an
unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
As discussed in Note 1 of the consolidated financial statements, the Company adopted the provisions
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R
(revised 2004), ‘‘Share-Based Payment’’ in fiscal year 2006. Also as discussed in Note 1 of the consolidated
financial statements, the Company adopted the provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s
Interpretation No. 48, ‘‘Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes’’ in fiscal year 2008.
KPMG LLP
Dallas, Texas
August 22, 2008
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