---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001650164-26-000130"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TOST"
cik: "0001650164"
company_name: "Toast, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-06-15T20:36:01+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T20:37:14.768669+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Toast shareholders elect Bennett, Chapman-Hughes, Hawkins as directors; ratify EY; approve exec comp

## Summary
- Class II directors Kent Bennett, Susan Chapman-Hughes, Mark Hawkins elected; 921M–1.001B votes for, 7.4M–87.6M withheld, 89.6M broker non-votes.
- Ratification of EY as independent auditor for 2026 passed with 1.097B for, 504K against, 628K abstain; no broker non-votes.
- Non-binding advisory vote on 2025 NEO compensation approved: 949.4M for, 58.6M against, 653.6K abstain, 89.6M broker non-votes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001650164-26-000130
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TOST
- cik: 0001650164
- company_name: Toast, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-06-15T20:36:01+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650164/000165016426000130/0001650164-26-000130-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650164/000165016426000130/tost-20260612.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Toast, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on compensation of named executive officers for fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 at the 2026-06-12 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-12
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as disclosed in the Company’s proxy statement for the Annual Meeting pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650164/000165016426000130/0001650164-26-000130-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Toast, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Class II directors at the 2026-06-12 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-12
  source text: The Company’s stockholders elected each of Kent Bennett, Susan Chapman-Hughes and Mark Hawkins as a Class II director of the Company’s board of directors for a three-year term expiring at the Company’s 2029 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until such director’s respective successor is duly elected and qualified, or such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650164/000165016426000130/0001650164-26-000130-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Toast, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2026 at the 2026-06-12 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-12
  source text: The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650164/000165016426000130/0001650164-26-000130-index.htm

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