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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000947871-22-000610"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHEF"
cik: "0001517175"
company_name: "Chefs' Warehouse, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T11:49:12.536056+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chefs' Warehouse stockholders approve amended equity plan, elect directors at 2022 annual meeting

## Summary
- Stockholders approved amendment to 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan, increasing authorized shares by 1,630,000.
- 10 directors elected, including Ivy Brown, Dominick Cerbone, Joseph Cugine, Steven Goldstone, and others.
- Ratification of BDO USA as independent auditor approved with 35,076,122 votes for.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation received 17,008,760 for and 15,245,916 against.
- Annual meeting attendance: 35,195,710 shares or 92.03% of outstanding shares voted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000947871-22-000610
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHEF
- cik: 0001517175
- company_name: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787122000610/0000947871-22-000610-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787122000610/ss1018199_8k.htm

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