Exhibit 4.1

|COMMON STOCK |  |                                                      |  | COMMON STOCK                                                                                                            
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|NWRG 5379    |  | NEW WORLD RESTAURANT GROUP, INC.                     |  |                                                                                                                         
|             |  | INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE |  | SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS AND A STATEMENT AS TO THE RIGHTS, PREFERENCES, PRIVILEGES AND RESTRICTIONS ON SHARES
|             |  |                                                      |  | CUSIP 649271 40 0                                                                                                       

THIS
CERTIFIES THAT

SPECIMEN

IS
THE OWNER OF

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK, $.001 PAR VALUE PER SHARE, OF

NEW WORLD RESTAURANT GROUP, INC.

transferable on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This
Certificate is not valid until countersigned and registered by the Transfer Agent and Registrar.

WITNESS
the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

|/s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
SECRETARY |  | [SEAL] |  | /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
CHAIRMAN
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COUNTERSIGNED
AND REGISTERED:

AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY
(NEW YORK, N.Y.)

TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

AUTHORIZED
SIGNATURE

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NEW WORLD RESTAURANT GROUP, INC.

A
statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications,
limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights as established, from time to time, by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation and by any certificate of determination, the
number of shares constituting each class and series, and the designations thereof, may be obtained by the holder hereof upon request and without charge at the principal office of the Corporation.

The
following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or
regulations:

|TEN COM |  |  |  | as tenants in common |  | UNIF GIFT MIN ACT |  |        |  | Custodian |  |         | 
|------- |  | - |  | -------------------- |  | ------------------ |  | ------ |  | --------- |  | ------- | 
|        |  |   |  |                      |  |                    |  | (Cust) |  |           |  | (Minor) | 

|TEN ENT |  |  |  | as tenants by the entireties   |  |  |  | under Uniform Gifts to Minors
|------- |  | - |  | ------------------------------ |  |  |  | -----------------------------
|JT TEN  |  |  |  | as joint tenants with right of |  |  |  | Act                          
|        |  |   |  | survivorship and not as        |  |  |  |                              
|        |  |   |  | tenants in common              |  |  |  |                              

| |  |  |  |  |  | UNIF TRF MIN ACT |  |         |  | Custodian (until age    |  |  |  | ) | 
| |  |  |  |  |  | ----------------- |  | ------- |  | ----------------------- |  |  |  | - | 
| |  |  |  |  |  |                   |  | (Cust)  |  |                         |  |  |  |   | 
| |  |  |  |  |  |                   |  |         |  | under Uniform Transfers
| |  |  |  |  |  |                   |  | (Minor) |  |                         |  |  |  |   | 

| |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | to Minors Act |  |         | 
| |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ------------- |  | ------- | 
| |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |               |  | (State) | 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

FOR
VALUE RECEIVED,  hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

|PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE | 
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(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)

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Shares
of the common stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

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Attorney
to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

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|Dated |  |  |  | 
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|                        |  | NOTICE: |  | THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.
|Signature(s) Guaranteed |  |         |  |                                                                                                                                                                                                

|By |  | THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION
PROGRAM), PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15. |  | 
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