---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-26-035556"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RRGB"
cik: "0001171759"
company_name: "RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC"
filed_at: "2026-05-15T20:06:27+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T20:12:11.848282+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Red Robin annual meeting elects all seven directors; say-on-pay approved with 84.6% support

## Summary
- All seven director nominees elected with >91% of votes cast; Ackil and Pace lowest at 92.19% and 92.31%.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed: 7,643,722 for (84.61%), 1,389,960 against, 1,022,848 abstain.
- Amendment to Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase authorized shares approved with 95.74% of votes cast.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for FY 2026 passed with 98.39% support.
- Approximately 80.66% of outstanding shares (14,627,380 of 18,135,330) present or represented at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-035556
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RRGB
- cik: 0001171759
- company_name: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
- filed_at: 2026-05-15T20:06:27+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000162828026035556/0001628280-26-035556-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000162828026035556/rrgb-20260514.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC shareholders approved Amendment to Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase authorized shares at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: equity plan
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan to increase the number of authorized shares available for issuance
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000162828026035556/0001628280-26-035556-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Stockholders elected all seven of the directors nominated by the Company’s board of directors to serve for one-year terms, until our 2027 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until any such director’s earlier resignation or removal
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000162828026035556/0001628280-26-035556-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000162828026035556/0001628280-26-035556-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC shareholders approved Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2026 at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s 2026 fiscal year
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000162828026035556/0001628280-26-035556-index.htm

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