Company: FWRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001789940-25-000025
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Company: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02 - Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(e)First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. Executive Severance Plan

On March 5, 2025, the Board of Directors of First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (the “ Company”), upon the recommendation of the Compensation Committee, adopted the First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. Executive Severance Plan (the “ Severance Plan”), which provides for certain severance benefits to the Company’s executive officers in the event of a termination without cause or a resignation for good reason (as such terms are defined in the Severance Plan). In the event of a participant’s employment termination without cause or for good reason (as such terms are defined in the Severance Plan), the Severance Plan provides for, among other items: (i) a lump sum severance payment equal to two times base salary for the Company’s chief executive officer, one and a half times base salary for the Company’s other executive officers, one times base salary for the Company’s home office senior vice presidents and three fourths base salary for the Company’s senior vice presidents of operations, (ii) a lump sum payment equal to the executive’s target annual bonus for the year that includes the date of termination, and (iii) a lump sum payment equal to the product of (x) the full annual premium that the executive would have to pay for continued healthcare coverage for the executive and executive’s dependents in the Company’s medical insurance plan under COBRA and (y) the multiples applicable to the severance payments described above in this paragraph.

Under the Severance Plan’s change in control provisions, in the event of a change in control of the Company accompanied by a termination without cause or for good reason within the two years following such change in control, the Severance Plan provides for, among other items: (i) a lump sum severance payment equal to two and a half times base salary for the Company’s chief executive officer, two times base salary for the Company’s other executive officers, one and a half times base salary for the Company’s home office senior vice presidents and three fourths base salary for the Company’s senior vice presidents of operations, (ii) a lump sum payment equal to the product of (x) executive’s target annual bonus for the year that includes the date of termination and (y) the multiples applicable to the severance payments described above in this paragraph, (iii) a