---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001636222-22-000091"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WING"
cik: "0001636222"
company_name: "Wingstop Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T06:20:40.525755+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wingstop amends executive severance plan; stockholders elect three directors at annual meeting

## Summary
- CEO Michael Skipworth gets severance multiplier of 2.5x salary for change-in-control termination, 2.0x for other qualifying termination.
- Benefit continuation extended to 24 months (30 months after change in control); lump-sum payment added for change-in-control severance.
- Participation Agreement amended to define 'competing business' as fried-chicken QSR and to forfeit CIC pro-rata bonus on breach.
- Annual meeting: Kandy Anand, David Goebel, Michael Hislop elected; KPMG ratified; say-on-pay approved with 99.3% of votes cast in favor.
- Pro-rata target bonus (CIC Pro-Rata Bonus) added for qualifying termination within 24 months of a change in control.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001636222-22-000091
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WING
- cik: 0001636222
- company_name: Wingstop Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1636222/000163622222000091/0001636222-22-000091-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1636222/000163622222000091/wing-20220526.htm

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