---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000947871-25-000510"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHEF"
cik: "0001517175"
company_name: "Chefs' Warehouse, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T08:30:42.311171+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chefs' Warehouse director Richard Peretz fails to win majority vote, tenders resignation

## Summary
- Richard N. Peretz received 15,655,379 for vs 16,193,133 against; failed to achieve majority.
- Peretz offered to resign; Board's Nominating and Governance Committee will recommend action within 90 days.
- All other eight director nominees elected with strong support; Ivy Brown, Goldstone, Lewis, Owens, Pappas, Pappas, Walton-Ruskin, Weinstein.
- Stockholders approved amendment to 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan increasing share reserve by 1,550,000 shares.
- Say-on-pay passed with 29,728,703 for, 2,098,279 against; auditor BDO USA ratified with 33,502,473 for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000947871-25-000510
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHEF
- cik: 0001517175
- company_name: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787125000510/0000947871-25-000510-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787125000510/ss4829636_8k.htm

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