---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000947871-24-000858"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHEF"
cik: "0001517175"
company_name: "Chefs' Warehouse, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T05:18:55.876210+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chefs' Warehouse amends bylaws to adopt uncertificated book-entry shares

## Summary
- Board approved amendment on Nov 5, 2024 to dematerialize physical stock certificates.
- Shares will be issued exclusively in uncertificated book-entry form going forward.
- Existing physical stock certificates remain valid until surrendered to the Company.
- Amended and Restated Bylaws filed as Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000947871-24-000858
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHEF
- cik: 0001517175
- company_name: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000858/0000947871-24-000858-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000858/ss4076157_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.: Amendment to Bylaws to provide for dematerialization of physical stock certificates; shares to be issued in uncertificated book-entry form (effective 2024-11-05).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-11-05
  source text: On November 5, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted an amendment of the Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”) to provide for the dematerialization of physical stock certificates.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787124000858/0000947871-24-000858-index.htm

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