---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950142-22-003414"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RRGB"
cik: "0001171759"
company_name: "RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T03:10:11.316486+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Red Robin COO Michael Buchmeier to depart effective Jan 31, 2023

## Summary
- Michael Buchmeier, SVP and COO, leaving Red Robin effective January 31, 2023.
- No successor announced as of filing date; compensatory arrangements pending.
- Company expects to enter into a severance agreement, terms to be disclosed later.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950142-22-003414
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RRGB
- cik: 0001171759
- company_name: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000095014222003414/0000950142-22-003414-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000095014222003414/eh220312311_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-22-003414
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-22-003414.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-22-003414.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Buchmeier departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC.
  - Action: departure
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On December 16, 2022, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the departure of Michael Buchmeier, the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, effective January 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000095014222003414/0000950142-22-003414-index.htm

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