---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001606366-25-000056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LOCO"
cik: "0001606366"
company_name: "El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T17:59:17.283876+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# El Pollo Loco President and COO Hollandsworth to Depart Dec. 26, 2025

## Summary
- Maria Hollandsworth will leave her roles as President and COO, effective December 26, 2025.
- She will receive accrued benefits and subsidized COBRA insurance contingent on execution of a release.
- Unvested restricted stock awards and stock options that would vest by May 31, 2026, will accelerate upon separation.
- The company did not announce a successor for the President and COO role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001606366-25-000056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LOCO
- cik: 0001606366
- company_name: El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636625000056/0001606366-25-000056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606366/000160636625000056/loco-20251120x8k.htm

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