---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001606366-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LOCO"
cik: "0001606366"
company_name: "El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T03:52:50.504518+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# El Pollo Loco annual meeting elects directors, ratifies auditor, approves exec pay

## Summary
- Four Class III directors elected: Borgese (18.9M for), Buller (19.3M), Roberts (19.7M), Roth (15.4M).
- Ratification of BDO USA as auditor passed with 28.6M for, 64.9K against.
- Non-binding advisory say-on-pay approved with 20.8M for, 945.7K against.
- Meeting held June 6, 2023; quorum of 79.01% of shares represented.
- All proposals passed as recommended by the board.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001606366-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LOCO
- cik: 0001606366
- company_name: El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000025/0001606366-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000025/loco-20230606x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of BDO USA, LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2023 at the 2023-06-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-06
  source text: Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. ​ On June 6, 2023, the Company held its 2023 annual meeting of stockholders (“Annual Meeting”). Of 36,460,424 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote as of April 10, 2023, the record date for the annual meeting, 28,808,954 shares were present in person or represented by proxy, or 79.01%, constituting a quorum. At the Annual Meeting the Company’s stockholders voted on three proposals, each of which is described in more detail in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2023. ​ The final results of voting for each matter submitted to a vote of stockholders at the Annual Meeting are as follows: 1. Election of directors ​ Proposal 1 was the election of four nominees to serve as Class III directors until the 2026 annual meeting or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The result of the vote was as follows: ​ ​ ​ Nomine
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000025/0001606366-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote regarding approval of the Company's named executive officers' compensation at the 2023-06-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-06
  source text: Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. ​ On June 6, 2023, the Company held its 2023 annual meeting of stockholders (“Annual Meeting”). Of 36,460,424 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote as of April 10, 2023, the record date for the annual meeting, 28,808,954 shares were present in person or represented by proxy, or 79.01%, constituting a quorum. At the Annual Meeting the Company’s stockholders voted on three proposals, each of which is described in more detail in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2023. ​ The final results of voting for each matter submitted to a vote of stockholders at the Annual Meeting are as follows: 1. Election of directors ​ Proposal 1 was the election of four nominees to serve as Class III directors until the 2026 annual meeting or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The result of the vote was as follows: ​ ​ ​ Nomine
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000025/0001606366-23-000025-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. shareholders approved Election of four nominees to serve as Class III directors until the 2026 annual meeting at the 2023-06-06 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-06
  source text: Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. ​ On June 6, 2023, the Company held its 2023 annual meeting of stockholders (“Annual Meeting”). Of 36,460,424 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote as of April 10, 2023, the record date for the annual meeting, 28,808,954 shares were present in person or represented by proxy, or 79.01%, constituting a quorum. At the Annual Meeting the Company’s stockholders voted on three proposals, each of which is described in more detail in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2023. ​ The final results of voting for each matter submitted to a vote of stockholders at the Annual Meeting are as follows: 1. Election of directors ​ Proposal 1 was the election of four nominees to serve as Class III directors until the 2026 annual meeting or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The result of the vote was as follows: ​ ​ ​ Nomine
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636623000025/0001606366-23-000025-index.htm

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