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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-053643"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CAKE"
cik: "0000887596"
company_name: "CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:49:54.324273+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stockholders approve Second Amendment to Cheesecake Factory Stock Incentive Plan

## Summary
- Plan amendment approved with 33.5M votes for (84.5%), 3.1M against, 126k abstain.
- All eight director nominees elected; David Overton received 35.6M for, 1.0M against.
- Ratification of KPMG as auditor for FY2025 passed with 41.9M for, 289k against.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 36.3M for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-053643
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CAKE
- cik: 0000887596
- company_name: CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887596/000110465925053643/0001104659-25-053643-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887596/000110465925053643/tm2516285d1_8k.htm

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