Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000807882-25-000072
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Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 specific tasks for their assigned position and ensure food safety. The training program is a blended learning approach including e-learning courses, hands-on exercises, and online knowledge validation tests. Before certification, shift managers attend a virtual training, and assistant managers and general managers attend an in person class in-person classes, all led by the training department or certified trainer.

Food Safety

Our “farm-to-fork” food safety program is designed to maintain high standards for the food products and food preparation procedures used by our vendors and in our restaurants. We maintain product specifications for our ingredients and our Food Safety and Technical Services Department must approve all suppliers of food products to our restaurants. We use third-party and internal audits to review the food safety management programs of our vendors. We manage food safety in our restaurants through a comprehensive food safety management program that is based on the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) Food Code requirements. The food safety management program includes employee training, ingredient testing, documented restaurant practices, and attention to product safety at each stage of the food preparation cycle. In addition, our food safety management program uses American National Standards Institute certified food safety training programs to train our company and franchise restaurant management employees on food safety practices for our restaurants.

Supply Chain

At both brands, we contract with a single primary food service distributor for substantially all of our food, packaging and supplies. Under the current contracts, this distributor will provide distribution services to both our Jack in the Box and Del Taco restaurants through August 2027.

The primary commodities purchased by Jack in the Box restaurants are beef, poultry, pork, cheese, and produce. Taco meat, cheese and produce are the largest commodities purchased by Del Taco. We monitor and purchase some commodities in order to minimize the impact of fluctuations in price and supply. Contracts are entered into and commodity market positions may be secured when we consider them to be advantageous. However, certain commodities remain subject to price fluctuations. Most essential food and beverage products are available or can be made available upon relatively short notice from alternative qualified suppliers.

Information Systems

Our Jack in the Box and Del Taco restaurant software allows for daily polling of sales, inventory, and other data from the restaurants directly. Our company restaurants and traditional-site franchise restaurants use standardized Android and Windows-based touch screen point-of-sale (“POS”) platforms. These platforms allow the restaurants to accept cash, credit cards, and our re-loadable gift cards. The single POS system for all restaurants helps franchisees and brand managers adapt more quickly to meet consumer demands and introduce new products, pricing, promotions, and technologies such