---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001789940-22-000087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRG"
cik: "0001789940"
company_name: "First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T22:35:32.699206+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Watch Chairman Emeritus Ken Pendery Jr. to retire Sept 1, 2022

## Summary
- Kenneth L. Pendery, Jr., 68, retires as director and Chairman Emeritus effective Sept 1, 2022.
- Retirement is in accordance with a February 2021 letter agreement; planned nearly one year after IPO.
- Pendery served in various leadership roles since 1984, including CEO from 1999 to 2018.
- No replacement for Chairman Emeritus role announced; Chris Tomasso remains CEO and President.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001789940-22-000087
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRG
- cik: 0001789940
- company_name: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994022000087/0001789940-22-000087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994022000087/fwrg-20220817.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-22-000087.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-22-000087.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kenneth L. Pendery, Jr. departed as Chairman Emeritus at First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chairman Emeritus
  source text: Kenneth L. Pendery, Jr., Chairman Emeritus of the Company, will retire from his role as Chairman Emeritus and as a director of the Company on September 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994022000087/0001789940-22-000087-index.htm

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