---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001789940-23-000063"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRG"
cik: "0001789940"
company_name: "First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T16:07:24.433276+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Watch annual meeting elects two Class II directors, ratifies PwC as auditor

## Summary
- Julie M.B. Bradley and David Paresky elected as Class II directors until 2026.
- Bradley received 49,530,699 for and 5,462,838 withheld; Paresky 49,113,884 for and 5,879,653 withheld.
- Ratification of PwC as independent auditor for fiscal 2023 with 56,535,755 for, 48,391 against, 83 abstentions.
- Approximately 1.6 million broker non-votes on director election.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001789940-23-000063
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRG
- cik: 0001789940
- company_name: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000063/0001789940-23-000063-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000063/fwrg-20230523.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. shareholders approved Election of two Class II director nominees at the 2023-05-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-23
  source text: The stockholders elected each of the two nominees named below as Class II directors to serve until the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000063/0001789940-23-000063-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-05-23 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-23
  source text: The stockholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000063/0001789940-23-000063-index.htm

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