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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-107413"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLAY"
cik: "0001525769"
company_name: "Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-10-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T04:22:53.896555+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dave & Buster's approves one-time equity grants to executives with stock purchase condition

## Summary
- Compensation Committee approved one-time grants of performance-based RSUs, time-based RSUs, and stock options to named executive officers on Oct 7, 2022.
- Annual long-term incentive awards for participants will be adjusted downward for the next five years.
- Options vest in equal annual installments over five years, subject to a purchase condition requiring stock purchase by Jan 13, 2023.
- Failure to meet the purchase condition (minimum $ amount) results in forfeiture of proportionate option shares.
- The grants align executive interests with shareholders; form of nonqualified stock option agreement filed as Exhibit 10.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-107413
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLAY
- cik: 0001525769
- company_name: Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-10-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1525769/000110465922107413/0001104659-22-107413-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1525769/000110465922107413/tm2227933d1_8k.htm

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