Company: RRGB
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038610
Chunk: 7

Company: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 voted at any time and date to which the annual meeting may be properly adjourned or postponed. This proxy statement, including the proxy statement summary included herein, includes several website addresses and references to additional materials found on those websites. These websites and materials are not incorporated by reference herein. PROPOSAL 1:
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS HOW OUR DIRECTORS ARE SELECTED, QUALIFIED, AND ELECTED Our Board of Directors is highly engaged and committed to effective governance as reflected in the following actions: • creation and maintenance of good governance principles and practices that receive high scores from leading governance third parties • design and oversight of compensation plans that emphasize internal and external pay parity and that align our executives’ interests with those of stockholders • steady refreshment of their own membership As of the date of this proxy statement,88.9 % of our Board is independent. Our Board of Directors currently consists of nine directors, all of whom are independent except our CEO, and all of whom are standing for election. The nominees are Anthony S. Ackil, Thomas G. Conforti, Steven K. Lumpkin, Christopher Martin, David A. Pace, Allison Page, James C. Pappas, Nicole Miller Regan, and Anddria Varnado. Their biographies are detailed below. Directors are elected on an annual basis for a one-year term. The directors elected at this annual meeting will serve in office until our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until any such director’s earlier resignation or removal. Each of our nominees has consented to serve if elected, and we expect each of them will be able to serve if elected. If any of our nominees should become unavailable to serve as a director, our Board of Directors can name a substitute nominee, and the persons named as proxies in the proxy card, or their nominees or substitutes, will vote your shares for such substitute nominee unless an instruction to the contrary is written on your proxy card. The Board recommends that you vote FOR all of the Board’s nominees to serve as directors of the Company. 8

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Selecting Nominees for Director Our Board has delegated to the Nominating and Governance Committee the responsibility for reviewing and recommending nominees for director. The Board determines which candidates to nominate or appoint, as appropriate, after considering the recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee. In evaluating a director candidate, the Nominating and Governance Committee considers the candidate’s independence; character; corporate governance skills and