---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-020816"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DIN"
cik: "0000049754"
company_name: "Dine Brands Global, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T02:58:43.498218+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applebee's President Tony Moralejo to depart March 4; CEO John Peyton interim

## Summary
- Tony Moralejo stepping down as Applebee's President effective March 4, 2025.
- He will serve as advisor through June 4, 2025; CEO John Peyton becomes interim President.
- Dine Brands initiated nationwide search for a new Applebee's President.
- Peyton will oversee brand including digital experience, menu innovation, off-premise.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-020816
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DIN
- cik: 0000049754
- company_name: Dine Brands Global, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525020816/0001193125-25-020816-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525020816/d806001d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-020816
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-020816.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-020816.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 0031770508
  claim: John W. Peyton changed role as Interim President, Applebee’s Business Unit at Dine Brands Global, Inc..
  evidence_excerpt: Until a successor is appointed, John W. Peyton, Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation, will also serve as Interim President, Applebee’s Business Unit.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525020816/0001193125-25-020816-index.htm
- claim_id: 835a0d211f
  claim: Tony E. Moralejo departed as President, Applebee’s Business Unit at Dine Brands Global, Inc..
  evidence_excerpt: On February 5, 2025, Dine Brands Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), announced Tony E. Moralejo, President, Applebee’s Business Unit, will be departing his current role with the Corporation, effective as of March 4, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525020816/0001193125-25-020816-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.