Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
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Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 39
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 dining restaurant in Westchester, New York, from January 2003 until its sale in October 2019. Prior to that, she served as Director of International Marketing at Sanpellegrino S.p.A, an Italian mineral water company (acquired by Nestle S.A. in 1998), from 1996 to 2000, and as Director of Marketing from 1989 to 1995. Ms. Weinstein currently serves as a director on the board of Newport Restaurant Group, a hospitality services firm, where she serves as a member of the Audit Committee, since January 2024. Ms. Weinstein earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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#### Vote Required
An affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast on Proposal 1 is required to approve the election of each of the nominees for election as a director. A “majority of votes cast” means that the number of shares voted “for” a director nominee must exceed the number of votes cast “against” that director nominee’s election. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on Proposal 1 because they are not considered votes cast. If no voting specification is made on a properly returned or voted proxy card, the proxies will vote FOR Ms. Brown, Mr. Goldstone, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Owens, Mr. C. Pappas, Mr. J. Pappas, Mr. Peretz, Ms. Walton-Ruskin and Ms. Weinstein as directors to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are elected and qualified.

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### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

#### Executive Summary
Our performance in 2024 demonstrates our continued progress in establishing ourselves as the premier purveyor of specialty ingredients and specialty center-of-the-plate to over 50,000 high end independently owned restaurants, hotels, country clubs and gourmet food stores in key culinary markets across North America and the Middle East.

During 2024, we made significant progress towards achieving our medium and long-term strategic and financial goals. Our total revenue for fiscal 2024 increased approximately 10.5% to approximately $3.8 billion from approximately $3.4 billion in fiscal 2023. During 2024, we continued to invest in distribution capacity expansion, including the completion of our new Center-of-the-Plate processing and distribution facility in Richmond, California, consolidating four existing facilities, and