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
Chunk 14
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6 or the date of the next annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2026.

#### Householding
The SEC has adopted a rule concerning the delivery of annual reports and proxy statements. It permits us, with your permission, to send a single Notice of Proxy Availability and, to the extent requested, a single set of these proxy materials to any household at which two or more stockholders reside if we believe they are members of the same family. This rule is called “householding” and its purpose is to help reduce printing and mailing costs of proxy materials. To date, the Company has not instituted this procedure, but may do so in the future.

A number of brokerage firms have instituted householding. If you and members of your household have multiple accounts holding shares of the Company’s common stock, you may have received a householding notification from your broker. Please contact your broker directly if you have questions, require additional copies of this proxy statement, the Annual Report or other proxy materials or wish to revoke your decision to household. These options are available to you at any time. Separate reports and proxies are available at The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc., 100 East Ridge Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877, or by calling our General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Chief Government Relations Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, Alexandros Aldous, at (203) 894-1345.

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### STOCK OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
This table includes information regarding the amount of our common stock beneficially owned as of March 17, 2025 by the following persons as of such date: (i) each of our directors and director nominees, (ii) each of our executive officers named in “ EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION - Summary Compensation Table - Fiscal Years 2022-2024 ,” (iii) all of our directors and current executive officers as a group, and (iv) each other person or entity known to us to own more than 5% of our outstanding common stock.

| Name and Address of Beneficial Owner(1)                          |     | Number of Shares Beneficially Owned(2) |     | Percentage Ownership |
| Directors and Named Executive Officers:                          |     |                                        |     |                      |
| Christopher Pappas(3)                                            |     |                              2,813,447 |     | 6.9%                 |
| John Pappas(4)                                                   |     |