The hospitality industry, which employs 10% of the UK workforce, has been one of the hardest hit sectors in the UK economy.
It also employs a disproportionately high number of young BAME workers which has led to concerns about the impact of the looming covid recession on minority ethnic groups in the UK.
Chief executive Andy Hornby, famed for running the HBOS bank before it collapsed into a rescue deal by Lloyds, said: "The issues facing our sector are well documented and we have already taken decisive action to improve our liquidity, reduce our cost base and downsize our operations."
Unusually, TRG's statement to the stock market included a message from Melanie Leach, the chief executive of the British Property Federation, in what appeared to be an attempt to show TRG's landlords that it had tried to be conciliatory in its demands for haircuts in the CVA.
She said: "These situations are never easy, particularly now for the retail and hospitality businesses on our high streets at the sharp end of the covid-19 pandemic.
"Property owners, however, need to take into consideration the impact on their investors, including the millions of people whose savings and pensions are investd in commercial property, as they vote on any CVA proposal.
"The Restaurant Group and [its restructuring advisers] Alix Partners engaged with the BPF before launching this CVA proposal. This has provided us an opportunity to improve understanding of property owners' interests and concerns, but ultimately it will be for individual property owners to decide how they will vote on the CVA."
Analyst Mark Brumby of Langton said: "The problem comes when the landlords, rightly or wrongly, believe the company is taking advantage of a situation to change lease terms or to dump units altogether."
He said TRG had to strike a balancing act to persuade landlords there was no alternative. TRG will need to persuade 75% of the creditors voting by value to get the CVA through.
Brumby pointed out that TRG had needed major restructuring before covid, but said: "If the group can pull this off - and covid-19 really is an exceptional circumstance - then it will have pushed perhaps three, four or five years' worth of organic restructuring into one year."
TRG has raised equity and debt and cut costs, he added. "It could and should be one of the survivors - but the creditors' vote remains another hurdle to overcome."
