---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001789940-23-000079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRG"
cik: "0001789940"
company_name: "First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T05:43:26.316437+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Watch appoints Irene Chang Britt to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board size increased from 7 to 8; Britt elected as Class II director for term expiring at 2026 annual meeting.
- Britt received an equity grant of $100,000 in restricted stock units as initial director compensation.
- Britt is former President & Divisional CEO of Pepperidge Farm and SVP at Campbell Soup Company.
- Currently serves on boards of IDEXX Laboratories, Brighthouse Financial, and Victoria's Secret & Co.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001789940-23-000079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRG
- cik: 0001789940
- company_name: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000079/0001789940-23-000079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000079/fwrg-20230719.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-23-000079.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Irene Chang Britt was elected as Class II Director at First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: elected Irene Chang Britt to serve as a Class II director, effective immediately, for a term expiring at the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000079/0001789940-23-000079-index.htm

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