---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000947871-24-000474"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHEF"
cik: "0001517175"
company_name: "Chefs' Warehouse, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T00:45:44.294040+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chefs' Warehouse stockholders elect all 11 director nominees, ratify BDO as auditor

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; highest 'for' vote was Debra Walton-Ruskin at 35,009,263.
- Ratification of BDO USA as independent auditor for FY ending Dec 27, 2024 passed with 37,224,719 for.
- Non-binding advisory approval of executive compensation received 32,677,468 for, 2,318,112 against.
- Stockholders favored annual advisory votes on exec compensation (33,857,141 votes); company will hold annual votes.
- Turnout was 37,349,450 shares (93.82% of outstanding) present or represented.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000947871-24-000474
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHEF
- cik: 0001517175
- company_name: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000474/0000947871-24-000474-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000474/ss3381813_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-10
  source text: The stockholders elected Ivy Brown, Joseph Cugine, Steven F. Goldstone, Aylwin Lewis, Katherine Oliver, Lester Owens, Christopher Pappas, John Pappas, Richard N. Peretz, Debra Walton-Ruskin and Wendy M. Weinstein to serve as directors to hold office until the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2025 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000474/0000947871-24-000474-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of selection of BDO USA, P.C. as independent registered public accounting firm at the 2024-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-10
  source text: The stockholders approved the ratification of the selection of BDO USA, P.C. as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 27, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000474/0000947871-24-000474-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers at the 2024-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-10
  source text: The stockholders approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed on Schedule 14A with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 27, 2024 (the “2024 Proxy Statement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000474/0000947871-24-000474-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation (every 1, 2, or 3 years) at the 2024-05-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-10
  source text: The stockholders voted on a non-binding, advisory basis, on the frequency (once every one year, two years or three years) that stockholders of the Company will have a non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as described in the 2024 Proxy Statement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000474/0000947871-24-000474-index.htm

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