---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001789940-23-000115"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FWRG"
cik: "0001789940"
company_name: "First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T17:19:41.528228+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Watch appoints Jostein Solheim to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9; Solheim elected as Class I director effective Dec 6, 2023.
- Solheim is CEO Health & Wellbeing at Unilever, former Ben & Jerry's CEO with 32 years at Unilever.
- He will receive standard non-employee director compensation plus an RSU grant of $100,000.
- Board determined Solheim meets independence standards under Nasdaq and SEC rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001789940-23-000115
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FWRG
- cik: 0001789940
- company_name: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000115/0001789940-23-000115-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000115/fwrg-20231205.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-23-000115
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-23-000115.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001789940-23-000115.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jostein Solheim was elected as Class I director at First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class I director
  source text: elected Jostein Solheim to serve as a Class I director, effective December 6, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1789940/000178994023000115/0001789940-23-000115-index.htm

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