---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-182775"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GENK"
cik: "0001891856"
company_name: "GEN Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T12:15:33.477200+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEN Restaurant Group enters IPO-related registration rights and tax receivable agreements

## Summary
- Entered Registration Rights Agreement granting holders demand/piggyback rights; minimum $10M net proceeds for demand registration, $15M for underwritten offerings.
- Tax Receivable Agreement pays 85% of net cash tax savings from basis increases to GEN LLC members, reducing cash available for dividends or reinvestment.
- Amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws effective June 30, 2023 in connection with IPO closing.
- Registration Rights Agreement allows qualified holders (≥5M shares) to request shelf or underwritten offerings after one-year lock-up.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-182775
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GENK
- cik: 0001891856
- company_name: GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1891856/000119312523182775/0001193125-23-182775-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1891856/000119312523182775/d516435d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. entered into Registration Rights Agreement with certain stockholders of the Company valued at Demand and piggyback registration rights related to shares of Class A Stock issuable upon exchange o (effective 2023-06-30).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: certain stockholders of the Company
  - Value: Demand and piggyback registration rights related to shares of Class A Stock issuable upon exchange o
  - Effective: 2023-06-30
  source text: Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. Registration Rights Agreement On June 30, 2023, in connection with the closing of the initial public offering (the “IPO”) of GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. (the “Company,” “we” or “our”) of its Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Class A Stock”), described in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-272253), as amended (the “Registration Statement”), the Company entered into the Registration Rights Agreement, by and among the Company and certain stockholders of the Company party thereto (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), substantially in the form previously filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Registration Statement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1891856/000119312523182775/0001193125-23-182775-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. entered into Tax Receivable Agreement with members of GEN Restaurant Companies, LLC or their permitted assignees valued at Company will pay 85% of net cash tax savings realized from increases in tax basis and certain other (effective 2023-06-30).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: members of GEN Restaurant Companies, LLC or their permitted assignees
  - Value: Company will pay 85% of net cash tax savings realized from increases in tax basis and certain other
  - Effective: 2023-06-30
  source text: Tax Receivable Agreement On June 30, 2023, in connection with the closing of the IPO and the reorganization described in the Registration Statement, the Company entered into the Tax Receivable Agreement (the “TRA”), substantially in the form previously filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Registration Statement, for the benefit of the members of GEN Restaurant Companies, LLC (“GEN LLC”) or their permitted assignees, pursuant to which the Company will pay 85% of the amount of the net cash tax savings, if any, that the Company realizes (or, under certain circumstances, is deemed to realize) as a result of (i) increases in tax basis (and utilization of certain other tax benefits) resulting from the Company’s acquisition of a member’s limited liability company units of GEN LLC in future exchanges and (ii) any payments the Company makes under the TRA (including tax benefits related to imputed interest).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1891856/000119312523182775/0001193125-23-182775-index.htm

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