Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
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Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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 office of our Corporate Secretary to review, organize, and screen communications from stockholders and other interested parties and deliver them to the Board or non-management directors, as applicable. However, any material that is screened from distribution must be made available to any non-management director upon request.

### Executive Compensation Overview
The Company’s executive compensation program, as approved by the Compensation and Human Capital Committee (the “Compensation Committee”), is designed to implement our executive pay philosophy to:

• Attract and retain talented and experienced executives and other key employees;

• Align the interests of executives with our business plans through the use of Company-wide performance metrics based on those plans (“pay for performance”) and retention programs intended to retain employees key to their implementation;

• Incentivize achievement of annual financial, functional and individual objectives; and

• Create a fair and measurable compensation model for rewarding performance and attracting and retaining key members of management.

#### Compensation Practices
| What We Do                                     |     | What We Don’t Do                                   |
| Pay for Performance                            |     | No Repricing or Cash Buyouts of Underwater Options |
| Double Trigger Change in Control Provisions    |     | No Hedging or Pledging of Company Stock            |
| Independent Compensation Advisor               |     | No Supplemental Retirement Benefits for Executives |
| Clawback Policy and Stock Ownership Guidelines |     | No “Spring-Loaded” Equity Awards                   |

#### Elements of Compensation for Fiscal 2024
Taking into account the above-described objectives and our peer group comparisons, the Compensation Committee designed a fiscal 2024 compensation package for our named executive officers that consisted of the following principal components.

| Element                                 |     | Description, Objective & Performance Metrics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     | Form                                   |
| Base Salary                             |     | The guaranteed part of our executives’ pay. Base salary reflects the different levels of responsibility within the Company, the skills and experience required for the job, individual performance and labor market conditions. Provides a competitive level of fixed compensation.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |     | • Cash                                 |
| Performance-Based Annual Cash Incentive |     | Performance-based payments to incentivize bottom-line growth as measured by fiscal 2024 adjusted EBITDA ("AEBITDA"). Opportunities for additional payouts for performance above target levels.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |     | • Cash                                 |
| Long-Term Equity Incentives             |     | Equity-based incentives earned based on the attainment of performance objectives and continued service with the Company to align the interests of our executives with stockholders and