---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001275158-24-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NDLS"
cik: "0001275158"
company_name: "NOODLES & Co"
filed_at: "2024-06-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T02:07:30.255825+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Noodles & Company EVP/GC Melissa Heidman departs; severance includes $515K salary, RSU vesting

## Summary
- Melissa Heidman, EVP, General Counsel & Secretary, departs effective July 2, 2024.
- Severance includes 18 months base salary ($515,366) paid over 18 months.
- Also receives lump sum COBRA payment of $37,842 and prorated 2024 annual bonus (6 months).
- Vesting of 34,899 pre-2024 restricted stock units; all other unvested RSUs and PSUs forfeited.
- Company and Heidman executed separation agreement with mutual releases; no replacement named.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001275158-24-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NDLS
- cik: 0001275158
- company_name: NOODLES & Co
- filed_at: 2024-06-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275158/000127515824000072/0001275158-24-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275158/000127515824000072/ndls-20240619.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001275158-24-000072.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Melissa Heidman departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NOODLES & Co.
  - Action: departure
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
  source text: On June 25, 2024, Noodles & Company ("the Company") announced the departure of Melissa Heidman, its Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, effective July 2, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275158/000127515824000072/0001275158-24-000072-index.htm

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