---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-26-000283"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BTBD"
cik: "0001718224"
company_name: "BT Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-01-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T09:34:06.984579+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BT Brands receives Nasdaq delisting notice for missing annual shareholder meeting

## Summary
- Nasdaq notice on Jan 14, 2026 for failure to hold annual meeting for FY2024 (Rule 5620(a)).
- Company must submit compliance plan by March 2, 2026; extension possible to June 29, 2026.
- Pending merger with Aero Velocity, Inc.; special meeting to vote on deal after S-4 effectiveness.
- If merger not approved by April 30, 2026, parties may terminate; then annual meeting will be called.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-26-000283
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BTBD
- cik: 0001718224
- company_name: BT Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-01-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718224/000147793226000283/0001477932-26-000283-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718224/000147793226000283/btbd_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001477932-26-000283.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 19d28bf6f3bf882f674164ee67ad1f011582e9ee
  claim: BT Brands, Inc. received a nasdaq deficiency notice notice regarding shareholders (rules 5620(a)).
  evidence_excerpt: January 14, 2026, BT Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) received written notice (the “Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that the Company is not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5620(a), due to the Company’s failure to hold an annual meeting of shareholders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. The Notice is only a notification of deficiency, not of imminent delisting, and has no current effect on the listing or trading of the Company’s securities on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The Notice states that the Company has un
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718224/000147793226000283/0001477932-26-000283-index.htm

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