Company: FWRG
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001789940-25-000031
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Company: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 copy of the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct by sending a written request to: 8725 Pendery Place, Ste. 201, Bradenton, FL 34201, Attention: Legal Department.

#### Corporate Governance Guidelines
Our Board has adopted corporate governance guidelines in accordance with the corporate governance rules of Nasdaq that serve as a flexible framework within which our Board and its committees operate. These guidelines cover a number of areas including:

• the duties and responsibilities of the Board;

• director independence;

• Board leadership structure;

• executive sessions;

• Chief Executive Officer evaluations;

• management development and succession planning;

• director nomination, qualification and election;

• director orientation and continuing education;

• stock ownership guidelines;

• Board agendas, materials, information and presentations;

• director access to senior managers and independent advisers;

• Board communication with stockholders and others;

• standing Board committees;

• director compensation; and

• annual board and committee performance evaluations.

A copy of our Corporate Governance Guidelines is available on our corporate website at https://investors.firstwatch.com/corporate-governance/governance-documents, under “Policies and Guidelines.” You also may obtain, without charge, a printed copy of the Corporate Governance Guidelines by sending a written request to: 8725 Pendery Place, Ste. 201, Bradenton, FL 34201, Attention: Legal Department.

#### Meetings of the Board
The Board held five (5) meetings and acted by written consent without a meeting on six (6) occasions during the fiscal year ended December 29, 2024. In 2024, each person serving as a director attended at least 75% of the total number of meetings of our Board and any Board committee on which he or she served.

#### Board Committees
Pursuant to our bylaws, our Board may establish one or more committees of the Board however designated, and delegate to any such committee the full power of the Board, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

The standing committees of our Board currently include an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee, and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Each committee operates under a written charter adopted by the Board, which contains a detailed description of the scope of the committee’s responsibilities and how they will be carried out. Each committee may delegate any of its responsibilities to one or more subcommittees as the committee may from time to time deem appropriate. Each committee regularly reports to the Board on committee findings, recommendations and any other

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