Company: FWRG
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001789940-25-000031
Chunk: 2

Company: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 2
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 Meeting if you were a stockholder as of the close of business on March 24, 2025, the record date, or hold a valid proxy for the meeting.

You will be able to attend the Annual Meeting, vote and submit questions during the Annual Meeting via live webcast by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/FWRG2025. You will find more information regarding the matters on which we are asking stockholders to vote on the following pages. If you are a stockholder of record, you may vote in advance by Internet at www.proxyvote.com, by telephone, by mail, or during the Annual Meeting, all as further described below. If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in “street name”, please follow the voting instructions provided in the notice you receive from your broker, bank or other intermediary, and direct such organization to vote your shares in accordance with your instructions. A beneficial owner may also attend the Annual Meeting, but because a beneficial owner is not a stockholder of record, you may not vote during the Annual Meeting unless you obtain a “legal proxy” from the organization that holds your shares, giving you the right to vote the shares during the Annual Meeting.

As part of the registration process to attend the Annual Meeting, you must enter the 16-digit control number located on your proxy card, voting instruction form, or Notice of Internet Availability. If you are a beneficial owner of shares registered in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee, you will also need to provide the registered name on your account and the name of your broker, bank or other nominee as part of the registration process.

On the day of the Annual Meeting, stockholders may begin to log in to the virtual-only Annual Meeting fifteen minutes prior to the Annual Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/FWRG2025. The Annual Meeting will begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

Our virtual Annual Meeting will allow stockholders to submit questions before and during the Annual Meeting. During a designated question and answer period at the Annual Meeting, we will respond to appropriate questions submitted by stockholders.

### PROXY STATEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS
| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT OUR ANNUAL MEETING                        |     |  1 |
| PROPOSAL 1: DIRECTOR ELECTION PROPOSAL                                |     |  5 |
| INFORMATION REGARDING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |     | 10 |
| EXECUTIVE OFFICERS                                                    |