---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001789940-23-000004"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRG"
cik: "0001789940"
company_name: "First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T18:04:54.490534+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Watch Q4 same-restaurant sales +7.7%, FY +14.5%; traffic -0.6% in Q4

## Summary
- Q4 same-restaurant sales growth 7.7%; fiscal year 2022 same-restaurant sales growth 14.5%.
- Q4 same-restaurant traffic growth negative 0.6%; fiscal year traffic growth positive 7.7%.
- Hurricane Ian negatively impacted Q4 same-restaurant sales and traffic by at least 0.7%.
- Opened 43 system-wide restaurants in 2022 (29 company-owned, 14 franchise); total 474 at year-end.
- No GAAP financial results provided; preliminary operational metrics only.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001789940-23-000004
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRG
- cik: 0001789940
- company_name: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000004/0001789940-23-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000004/fwrg-20230109.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-23-000004.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. reported preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 25, 2022.
  - Period: the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 25, 2022
  - Result: preliminary results
  source text: On January 9, 2023, First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing certain preliminary operational results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 25, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000004/0001789940-23-000004-index.htm

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