secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)
CIK:        0001517175
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-11T21:22:44+00:00
Accession:  0000947871-26-000509
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Chefs' Warehouse stockholders reelect 8 directors, approve auditor, and narrowly back say-on-pay at 2026 meeting
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- 93.79% of 40.8M shares represented; all 8 director nominees elected, Aylwin Lewis received 26.9M for vs 9.8M against.
- Auditor BDO USA ratified with 37.6M for (98.4% of votes cast); 629.5K against.
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved 18.8M for, 18.0M against (51.0% for); broker non-votes 1.42M.
- Ivy Brown did not stand for reelection; her director seat remains vacant pending board action.
- Record date shares 40,777,629; meeting held May 8, 2026.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787126000509/0000947871-26-000509-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000094787126000509/ss6310035_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000947871-26-000509

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