Company: RRGB
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038610
Chunk: 88

Company: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 88
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 to print and mail our proxy materials. You should also be aware that your proposal must comply with SEC regulations regarding inclusion of stockholder proposals in Company-sponsored proxy materials and the Bylaws. Our Bylaws also provide for proxy access stockholder nominations of director candidates by eligible stockholders. For a director nominee to be included in the Company’s proxy statement for the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, our corporate secretary must receive a written notice not later than January 22, 2026, and not earlier than December 23, 2025, and it must contain the additional information required by the Bylaws. If we advance the date of the 2026 annual meeting by more than 30 days, or delay the date by 60 days, from the anniversary of the date of the 2025 annual meeting, in order for the proposal to be timely, we must

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TABLE OF CONTENTS receive your written proposal not earlier than the one hundred and twentieth (120th) day prior to the date of the 2026 annual meeting, and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day before the date of the 2026 annual meeting and the tenth (10th) day following the day on which notice of the date of the 2026 annual meeting is mailed or public disclosure of the date of the 2026 annual meeting is made, whichever occurs first. PROPOSALS TO BE ADDRESSED AT 2026 ANNUAL MEETING (BUT NOT INCLUDED IN PROXY STATEMENT) Our Bylaws establish an advance notice procedure with regard to director nominations and other proposals by stockholders that are not intended to be included in our proxy materials, but that a stockholder instead wishes to present directly at an annual meeting. In order for you to properly bring a proposal (including director nominations) under this provision for the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, our corporate secretary must receive a written notice of the proposal not later than February 21, 2026, and not earlier than January 22, 2026, and it must contain the additional information required by the Bylaws. All proposals received after February 21, 2026, will be considered untimely. If we change the date of next year’s meeting by more than 30 days from the anniversary of the date of the 2025 annual meeting, in order for the proposal to be timely, we must receive your written proposal no later than the close of business on the nin