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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001789940-23-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRG"
cik: "0001789940"
company_name: "First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T05:13:46.082316+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Watch acquires 6 franchise restaurants in Omaha, effective May 1

## Summary
- Acquisition of six previously franchise-owned First Watch restaurants in Omaha, Nebraska, effective May 1, 2023.
- Transaction funded with cash on hand; no debt or equity issuance disclosed.
- CEO Chris Tomasso highlighted this as part of a strategy to acquire additional franchise restaurants.
- The Omaha restaurants have been operating for over a decade and are expected to continue under company ownership.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001789940-23-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRG
- cik: 0001789940
- company_name: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000049/0001789940-23-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000049/fwrg-20230501.htm

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