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                                                                    Exhibit 99.2

                               COMMITMENT LETTER

                                Stephen Oyster
                         3825 Lake Austin Blvd., # 401
                              Austin, Texas 78703

                                 May 14, 2001



Pancho's Mexican Buffet, Inc.
3500 Nobel Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76111


Re: Agreement and Plan of Merger among Pancho's Foods, Inc., Pancho's
Restaurants, Inc., and Pancho's Mexican Buffet, Inc. dated March 31, 2001
("Agreement")

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Two companies affiliated with me, Pancho's Foods, Inc. and Pancho's Restaurants,
Inc., and you have entered in to the Agreement referred to above. Pursuant to
the terms of the Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions contained in
it, Pancho's Restaurants Inc. will be merged with and into Pancho's at the
Effective Time described in the Agreement. At that time, the separate corporate
existence of Pancho's Restaurants, Inc. will cease and Pancho's will continue as
the surviving corporation and will succeed to and assume all the rights and
obligations of Pancho's Restaurants, Inc. As more fully described in the
Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions contained in it, (1) each
issued and outstanding share of the common stock of Pancho's Restaurants, Inc
will be converted into one share of common stock of Pancho's, and (2) all of
your common stock, except certain shares which will be canceled and certain
other shares, issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective time
will be converted into the right to receive from Pancho's Restaurants, Inc. in
cash $4.60 ("Merger Consideration").

Among other conditions to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by
the Agreement are (1) Pancho's Restaurants, Inc.'s or Pancho's Foods, Inc.'s
entering into a commitment letter with a lender pursuant to which the lender
shall have committed to provide, subject to the terms and conditions contained
in it, a certain amount in cash in respect to the Merger Consideration, and (2)
my entering into a commitment letter with you, pursuant to which I have
committed to provide an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the Merger
Consideration and all other fees and expenses required to be paid by Pancho's
Foods Inc. and Pancho's Restaurants, Inc. in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Merger Agreement, less the amount committed by the lender
pursuant to its commitment letter, in cash to Pancho's Restaurants, Inc.
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I have provided you with a signed copy of a Commitment Letter dated May 10,
2001, from American Commercial Capital LLC ("ACC Commitment Letter"). In the ACC
Commitment Letter, American Commercial Capital LLC has, subject to the terms and
conditions contained in such letter, agreed to loan a company affiliated with
me, Rockbay Properties LTD II, up to an aggregate of the lesser of $5,000,000 or
95% of the appraised value of certain of your assets ( "ACC Commitment").

Subject to the next paragraph, I commit and agree to provide an amount equal to
the aggregate amount of the Merger Consideration and all other fees and expenses
required to be paid by Pancho's Foods Inc. and Pancho's Restaurants, Inc. in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, less the
ACC Commitment.

My commitment and agreement contained in this letter is contingent upon the
occurrence of each of the following events:

1.   All the conditions contained in Sections 14 and 16 and of the ACC
     Commitment Letter shall have satisfied or waived and the closing
     contemplated by the ACC Commitment Letter shall have occurred; and

2.   All the closing conditions contained in Section 6.1 of the Merger Agreement
     shall have been satisfied or waived and the Merger Agreement shall not have
     been terminated as provided in Section 7.1 of the Merger Agreement.

I represent and warrant to the Company that I have the financial resources to
fulfil the my commitment and agreement given above.


                                   Very truly yours,


                                    /s/ Stephen Oyster
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                                   Stephen Oyster, President of
                                   Pancho's Foods, Inc.

Accepted:                          Pancho's Mexican Buffet, Inc.

May 14, 2001
                                   By:  /s/ Hollis Taylor
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                                        Hollis Taylor, President and
                                        Chief Executive Officer