secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)
CIK:        0001517175
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-10-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001517175-22-000011
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000151717522000011/0001517175-22-000011-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517175/000151717522000011/chef-20221026.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001517175-22-000011

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