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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001517175-22-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHEF"
cik: "0001517175"
company_name: "Chefs' Warehouse, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-10-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T00:48:24.142822+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chefs' Warehouse Q3 net sales +36.7% to $661.9M; raises full-year guidance

## Summary
- GAAP net income $8.3M ($0.21 diluted EPS) vs $3.5M ($0.09) a year ago; adjusted EPS $0.41 vs $0.12
- Adjusted EBITDA $41.0M vs $23.4M; gross margin up 113 bps to 23.8%
- Organic sales grew 22.2%; specialty case count +18.3%, center-of-the-plate pounds +11.6%
- Full-year 2022 guidance raised: net sales $2.45-2.55B, adjusted EBITDA $145-155M
- Estimated inflation of 15.0% in specialty and 2.2% in center-of-the-plate vs prior year

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001517175-22-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHEF
- cik: 0001517175
- company_name: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-10-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000151717522000011/0001517175-22-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000151717522000011/chef-20221026.htm

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