Company: FWRG
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001789940-25-000031
Chunk: 23

Company: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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 excluded: spam, junk mail and mass mailings, product complaints or inquiries, new product suggestions, resumes, job inquiries, surveys, business solicitations and advertisements. In addition, material that is trivial, obscene, unduly hostile, threatening, illegal, or similarly unsuitable items will be excluded. Any excluded communication will be made available to any independent, non-employee director upon request.

#### Stockholder Proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting
Under our bylaws, to be timely, notice of any stockholder proposal to be considered at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, including nominations of persons for election to our Board and other business, must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive officers of the Company not earlier than the open of business on the one-hundred twentieth (120th) day and not later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting. Therefore, to be presented at our 2026 Annual Meeting, such a proposal must be received on or after January 21, 2026, but not later than February 20, 2026. However, in the event the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before or more than sixty (60) days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the open of business on the one-hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the date of such annual meeting or, if the first public announcement by the Company of the date of such annual meeting is less than one hundred (100) days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Company.

The deadline for any stockholder proposal to be eligible for inclusion in our proxy statement related to the 2026 Annual Meeting pursuant to Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act, is December 9, 2025. In addition, to comply with the SEC’s universal proxy rules, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must provide notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than March 23, 2026.

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