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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000779544-23-000012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARKR"
cik: "0000779544"
company_name: "ARK RESTAURANTS CORP"
filed_at: "2023-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T02:37:15.748733+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ark Restaurants Corp. annual meeting results: all eight directors elected, auditor ratified

## Summary
- 3,059,521 shares voted out of 3,600,407 outstanding at March 14, 2023 annual meeting.
- All eight director nominees elected; Michael Weinstein received 2,348,795 votes for, 5,966 withheld.
- Ratification of CohnReznick LLP as independent auditor passed with 3,036,446 for, 19,957 against.
- Broker non-votes totaled 704,760 on each director election; none on auditor ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000779544-23-000012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARKR
- cik: 0000779544
- company_name: ARK RESTAURANTS CORP
- filed_at: 2023-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779544/000077954423000012/0000779544-23-000012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779544/000077954423000012/arkr-20230314.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  ARK RESTAURANTS CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of CohnReznick LLP as independent auditors for the 2023 fiscal year at the 2023-03-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-14
  source text: 2. Ratification of the appointment of CohnReznick LLP as independent auditors for the 2023 fiscal year: For Against Abstained / Withheld Broker Non-Votes 3,036,446 19,957 3,118 —
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779544/000077954423000012/0000779544-23-000012-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ARK RESTAURANTS CORP shareholders approved Election of eight directors to serve until the next annual meeting at the 2023-03-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-03-14
  source text: On March 14, 2023, Ark Restaurants Corp. held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Meeting”). The following matters were submitted to a vote of the Company’s shareholders at the Meeting: (i) the election of eight (8) directors to serve until the next annual meeting of the shareholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; and (ii) the ratification of the appointment of CohnReznick LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2023 fiscal year. At the Meeting, a total of 3,059,521 shares of the common stock of the Company (the “Common Stock”) voted in person or by proxy, out of 3,600,407 outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote at the Meeting. Set forth below is the number of votes cast for, against, abstained/withheld, and broker non-votes as to each matter: 1. Election of a Board of Eight Directors: Nominee For Abstained / Withheld Broker Non-Votes Michael Weinstein 2,348,795 5,966 704,760 Steven Shulman 2,183,580 171,18
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/779544/000077954423000012/0000779544-23-000012-index.htm

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