**Exhibit 10.1**

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**FOURTHAMENDMENT TO LEASE**

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**This Fourth Amendment to Lease**(“FourthAmendment”), is made and entered into as of the 22 date of July, 2009, by andbetween **Paragon Centre Holdings, LLC,**aKentucky limited liability company (“Landlord”) and **Texas Roadhouse Holdings LLC**, a Kentucky limited liabilitycompany (“Tenant”);

 

**WITNESSETH THAT:**

 

**WHEREAS,**Landlord and Tenant enteredinto that certain Amended and Restated Lease dated January 1, 2006, aFirst Amendment to Lease dated December 27, 2006, a Second Amendment toLease dated May 10, 2007, and a Third Amendment to Lease dated September 7,2007, (collectively, the “Lease”) for space in Two Paragon Centre as follows:

 

Suite 400(16,023 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 100(3,082 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 110(2,416 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 120(2,994 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 130,(2,313 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 140(1,334 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 150(3,317 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 200(8,040 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 300(4,334 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 305(1,488 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 310(1,405 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 315(3,863 square feet of rentable space);

Suite 320(4,581 square feet of rentable space)

Suite 250(3,892 square feet of rentable space)

 

alllocated in Two Paragon Centre, 6040 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, Kentucky, for atotal of 59,082 square feet of rentable space (“Premises”);

 

**WHEREAS,** Tenant now occupies all ofthe aforesaid Suites and desires to lease additional space known as Suite 220in Two Paragon Centre which will result in Tenant renting the entire buildingof Two Paragon Centre, including all commons areas of the building, for a totalof 65, 917.6 square feet; and

 

**WHEREAS,**Landlord and Tenant desireto amend certain other terms and conditions of the Lease and evidence theiragreements and other matters by means of this Fourth Amendment;

 

**NOW, THEREFORE,** in consideration of themutual covenants contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration,the receipt, adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, theLease is hereby amended and the parties hereby agree as follows:

 

1.                                       Pursuant to Exhibit C,paragraph 1 of the Lease, Landlord agrees to lease and Tenant agrees to acceptin its “AS IS WHERE IS” condition, Suite 220 in Two Paragon Centre,thereby making Tenant the sole occupant of the entire building known as TwoParagon Centre. Paragraph 2.1 of the Lease shall be amended to 

 

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include Suite 220 as a part of thePremises and the total rentable square footage of the Premises shall be amendedto 65,917.6 square feet effective May 1, 2009.  Exhibit B shall be replaced with theattached Exhibit B. The term for Suite 220 shall run co-terminouswith the remainder of the Premises. Paragraph 2.2 of the Lease is herebyamended to state that Tenant’s obligation to pay Base Rent and Tenant’s ProrataShare of Operating Expenses for Suite 220 commences January 1,2010.  Exhibit C, paragraph 1 willbe of no force and effect as Tenant now occupies the entire building of TwoParagon Centre.

 

2.                                       The originalterm of the Lease shall be amended to expire on December 31, 2025. TheExtension Option under Exhibit C shall remain in full force and effect.

 

3.                                       The ExpenseStop defined under Basic Lease Provisions section shall be changed to $3.63 persquare foot beginning January 1, 2010.

 

4.                                       Landlord andTenant agree that the Base Rent for the Premises beginning January 1,2010, will be $14.93 per rentable square foot. Section 3.1 of the Leasewill be amended as follows:

 
| **Months  of  Term** | ** ** | **Premises**                                                               | ** ** | **Base Rent per  Rentable Square  Foot** | ** ** | **Total Base  Rent** | ** ** | **Base Rent  Monthly** | ** ** |
|----------------------|------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|------------------------------------------|------------|----------------------|------------|------------------------|------------|
| 1/1/10-12/31/10      |       | 400,  100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 200, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 250, 220 |       | $                                        | 14.93      |                 | $          | 984,149.77             |       | $ | 82,012.48 |   |
| 1/1/11-12/31/11      |       | 400,100,110,120,130, 140,150, 200,  300,305, 310, 315, 320, 250, 220       |       | $                                        | 15.18      |                 | $          | 1,000,629.17           |       | $ | 83,385.76 |   |
| 1/1/12-12/31/12      |       | 400,  100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 200, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 250, 220 |       | $                                        | 15.43      |                 | $          | 1,017,108.57           |       | $ | 84,759.05 |   |
| 1/1/13-12/31/15      |       | 400,  100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 200, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 250, 220 |       | $                                        | 15.93      |                 | $          | 1,050,067.37           |       | $ | 87,505.61 |   |
| 1/1/16-12/31/20      |       | 400,  100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 200, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 250, 220 |       | $                                        | 16.93      |                 | $          | 1,115,984.97           |       | $ | 92,998.75 |   |

 

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| 1/1/21-12/31/25 |   | 400,  100, 110,120, 130, 140,150, 200, 300,305, 310,  315,320, 250, 220 |   | $                                                                             | 17.93  |   | $ | 1,181,902.57 |   | $ | 98,491.88 |   |
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| Option 1        |   | 400,  100, 110,120, 130, 140,150, 200, 300,305, 310,  315,320, 250, 220 |   | 95%  of Fair Market Rent (as defined in Exhibit C, Special Stipulations) |   |

 

5.                                       Section 4.2of the Lease shall be deleted in its entirety and the following language shallbe inserted in lieu thereof:

 

**“Keys and Locks**. Landlord shall initiallyfurnish Tenant with a reasonable number of keys or key fobs for the standardcorridor doors serving the Premises. Additional keys or key fobs will befurnished by Landlord upon an order signed by Tenant and at Tenant’s expense.All such keys and/or key fobs shall remain the property of Landlord. Upontermination or expiration of this Lease or a termination of possession of thePremises by Tenant, Tenant shall surrender to Landlord all keys and/or key fobsto any locks on doors entering or within the Premises. Tenant shall beresponsible for access of its employees, agents, concessionaires, licensees,customers and invitees to and from the building and to suites within thebuilding, and notifying the security company when building access doors shouldbe open or locked, including, but not limited to weekends and holidays. Inaddition, Tenant will provide contact information to the alarm monitoringcompany, whose contact information shall be supplied by Landlord to Tenant, sothat Tenant may be notified in the event the security alarm is activated.”

 

6.                                       Section 3.2 and 4.1 of the Leaseshall be amended as follows:  Beginningon January 1, 2010, the following services shall be provided by Tenant andshall no longer be the responsibility of the Landlord and shall not be billedas part of the Operating Expenses for the Premises:

 

A.                                   Elevator emergency phone and fire panelphone line (currently using Bellsouth).

B.                                     Monitoring forfire, elevator phones and door access (currently using Sonitrol Security Systems).

C.                                     Exterminator(currently using Okalona Pest Control)

D.                                    InteriorLandscaping  (currently using AlpineInterior)

E.                                      CleaningSupplies (currently using Eagle Paper)

F.                                      CleaningContract (currently using Jani-King)

G.                                     Utilities —LG&E (excludes parking lot lighting)

 

Landlordwill continue managing the fire sprinklers and sprinkler testing andinspections, window washing, parking lot lighting and maintenance and wasteremoval.

 

7.                                       All capitalizedterms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaningsascribed to them in the Lease.

 

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8.                                       This FourthAmendment shall not be valid and binding on Landlord and Tenant unless anduntil it has been completely executed by and delivered to both parties.

 

**EXCEPT AS** expressly amended andmodified hereby, the Lease shall otherwise remain in full force and effect, theparties hereto hereby ratifying and confirming the same, including but notlimited to the Special Stipulations, detailed in Exhibit C of the Lease,excepting paragraph 1 which is no longer in force and effect. To the extent ofany inconsistency between the Lease and this Fourth Amendment, the terms ofthis Fourth Amendment shall control as to the subject matter covered herein.

 

**IN WITNESS WHEREOF,**the undersigned parties haveduly executed this Fourth Amendment as of the date and year first abovewritten.

 
| **LANDLORD:**                 | ** **                  | **TENANT:**                   |
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| **PARAGON  CENTRE**           | ** **                  | **TEXAS  ROADHOUSE**          |
| **HOLDINGS,  LLC**            | ** **                  | **HOLDINGS LLC**              |
| A  Kentucky limited liability |                        | A  Kentucky limited liability |
| company                       |                        | company                       |
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| By:                           | /s/  David W. Nicklies      |                          | By:  Texas Roadhouse, Inc., a Delaware |
|                          | David  W. Nicklies, Manager |                          | corporation,  its Manager |
|                          |                        |                          |   |   |
|                          |                        |                          | By: | /s/  G.J. Hart |
|                          |                        |                          |   | G.J.  Hart, President, |
|                          |                        |                          |   | Chief  Executive Officer |

 

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