---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001275158-23-000067"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NDLS"
cik: "0001275158"
company_name: "NOODLES & Co"
filed_at: "2023-06-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T16:54:05.623105+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Noodles & Company appoints Mike Hynes as CFO, effective July 24, 2023

## Summary
- Mike Hynes, 47, appointed CFO effective July 24, 2023; reports to CEO Dave Boennighausen.
- Annual base salary of $350,000; target bonus of 75% of base salary (pro-rated for FY2023).
- Initial equity grant valued at $250,000 vesting over 4 years; 2024 equity grant valued at $400,000.
- Previously served as VP of Finance and Accounting at Ruth's Chris (Ruth's Hospitality Group) for 3 years.
- Hynes has nearly 25 years of finance and accounting experience; is a CPA with degrees from Auburn and UGA.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001275158-23-000067
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NDLS
- cik: 0001275158
- company_name: NOODLES & Co
- filed_at: 2023-06-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275158/000127515823000067/0001275158-23-000067-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275158/000127515823000067/ndls-20230620.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001275158-23-000067.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael Hynes was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at NOODLES & Co.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On June 26, 2023, Noodles & Company (the “Company”) announced that the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) appointed Michael ("Mike") Hynes, 47, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective July 24, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275158/000127515823000067/0001275158-23-000067-index.htm

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