---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-172651"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DIN"
cik: "0000049754"
company_name: "Dine Brands Global, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T21:38:38.487907+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dine Brands Global dismisses EY, appoints KPMG as auditor for FY2025

## Summary
- Audit Committee dismissed Ernst & Young effective August 4, 2025; no adverse opinions or disagreements in prior years.
- KPMG LLP engaged as independent auditor for fiscal year ending December 28, 2025.
- No consultations occurred with KPMG during the prior two fiscal years or subsequent interim period.
- EY provided a concurrence letter filed as Exhibit 16.1 agreeing with the company's statements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-172651
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DIN
- cik: 0000049754
- company_name: Dine Brands Global, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525172651/0001193125-25-172651-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525172651/d48850d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Dine Brands Global, Inc. dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  - Successor: KPMG LLP
  source text: dismissed Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) as the Corporation’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525172651/0001193125-25-172651-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Dine Brands Global, Inc. engaged KPMG LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: KPMG LLP
  source text: the Audit Committee approved the engagement of KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Corporation’s independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49754/000119312525172651/0001193125-25-172651-index.htm

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