---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-051311"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LOCO"
cik: "0001606366"
company_name: "El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:53:50.610872+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# El Pollo Loco stockholders approve board declassification, supermajority removal, and share increase

## Summary
- Stockholders approved declassification of board (24.3M for, 34.6K against) and elimination of supermajority voting (24.2M for, 48K against).
- Approved amendment to equity incentive plan increasing authorized shares by 1,250,000 (17.6M for, 5.2M against).
- Elected three Class II directors: William Floyd, Douglas Babb, Nancy Faginas-Cody with over 16.8M votes each.
- Ratified BDO USA as auditor (26.9M for, 307K against); advisory say-on-pay passed (21.5M for, 1.3M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-051311
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LOCO
- cik: 0001606366
- company_name: El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000121390025051311/0001213900-25-051311-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000121390025051311/ea0244780-8k_elpollo.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.: Amended certificate of incorporation to declassify the board of directors and eliminate supermajority voting requirements (effective 2025-06-03).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-03
  source text: As disclosed in Item 5.07 of this Form 8-K, at the Annual Meeting the Company’s stockholders approved amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide for the declassification of the Board of Directors of the Company and the elimination of supermajority voting requirements.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000121390025051311/0001213900-25-051311-index.htm

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