<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director and the
Chairman of the Board of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"),
a Delaware corporation that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on
Form S-8 ("Form S-8") with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of
registering under such Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par
value per share, to be offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers
Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes
and appoints DANIEL J. DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true
and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, (with full power of substitution and
resubstitution), with full power to act without the others, as his true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name, place and stead,
in the capacity as Director and Chairman of the Board, to sign such
Registration Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and
supplements, including post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such
Registration Statement on Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement,
including post-effective amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto,
and any and all other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, any and all applications or other documents required
to be filed with any state securities regulatory board or commission
pertaining to said Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform any
and all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
---------------------------------
William P. Foley, III
Director and Chairman of the Board
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director and the
Vice Chairman of the Board of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. (the
"Company"), a Delaware corporation that contemplates filing a Registration
Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8") with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
for the purpose of registering under such Act shares of the Company's common
stock, $.001 par value per share, to be offered to eligible employees
pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase
Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J. DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and
ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, (with full
power of substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the
others, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in the capacity as Director and Vice Chairman of the
Board, to sign Registration Statement on such Form S-8 and any and all
amendments and supplements, including post-effective amendments thereto, and
to file such Registration Statement on Form S-8 and each such amendment and
supplement, including post-effective amendments, so signed, with all exhibits
thereto, and any and all other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, any and all applications or other
documents required to be filed with any state securities regulatory board or
commission pertaining to said Registration Statement, hereby granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform
any and all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about
the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
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Peter C. O'Hara
Director and Vice Chairman of the Board
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, the Senior Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.
(the "Company"), a Delaware corporation that contemplates filing a
Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8") with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, for the purpose of registering under such Act shares of the
Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be offered to eligible
employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Employee Stock
Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J. DORSCH and ANDREW D.
SIMONS his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer, to sign such Registration Statement on Form S-8 and any and all
amendments and supplements, including post-effective amendments thereto, and
to file such Registration Statement on Form S-8 and each such amendment and
supplement, including post-effective amendments, so signed, with all exhibits
thereto, and any and all other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, any and all applications or other
documents required to be filed with any state securities regulatory board or
commission pertaining to said Registration Statement, hereby granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform
any and all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about
the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
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Theodore Abajian
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director and the
Chief Executive Officer and President of Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc.
(the "Company"), a Delaware corporation that contemplates filing a
Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8") with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, for the purpose of registering under such Act shares of the
Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be offered to eligible
employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. Employee Stock
Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D.
SIMONS his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them
(with full power of substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act
without the others, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for
him and in his name, place and stead, in the capacities as Chief Executive
Officer, President and Director, to sign such Registration Statement on Form
S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including post-effective
amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on Form S-8 and
each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective amendments, so
signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, any and
all applications or other documents required to be filed with any state
securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said Registration
Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each
of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and all acts and
things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
to all intents and purposes as he might do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
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Daniel J. Dorsch
Director, Chief Executive Officer
and President
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
-----------------------------
Terry N. Christensen
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
Clarence V. McKee
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
C. Thomas Thompson
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
Burt Sugarman
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
William D. Davis
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
Andrew F. Puzder
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
David Gotterer
Director
<PAGE>
EXHIBIT 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a Director of
Checkers Drive-in Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Delaware corporation
that contemplates filing a Registration Statement on Form S-8 ("Form S-8")
with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the purpose of registering under such
Act shares of the Company's common stock, $.001 par value per share, to be
offered to eligible employees pursuant to the Checkers Drive-In Restaurants,
Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints DANIEL J.
DORSCH, THEODORE ABAJIAN and ANDREW D. SIMONS his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them (with full power of
substitution and resubstitution), with full power to act without the others,
as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in the capacity as Director, to sign such Registration
Statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments and supplements, including
post-effective amendments thereto, and to file such Registration Statement on
Form S-8 and each such amendment and supplement, including post-effective
amendments, so signed, with all exhibits thereto, and any and all other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any and all applications or other documents required to be filed
with any state securities regulatory board or commission pertaining to said
Registration Statement, hereby granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform any and
all acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned hereunto sets his hand this _____
day of July, 2000.
--------------------------------
Ronald B. Maggard
Director
