Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
Chunk: 54

Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 54
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 incentive-based compensation paid to an executive officer of the Company on or after October 2, 2023 to the extent such incentive-based compensation was paid on the basis of financial results in respect of any of our three most recently completed fiscal years preceding the restatement.

Additionally, all awards, including time-based awards, granted under the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan will be subject to clawback or recoupment as permitted or mandated by applicable law, rules, regulations or Company policy.

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#### Compensation Committee Report
We have reviewed and discussed the foregoing Compensation Discussion and Analysis with management, as required by Item 402(b) of Regulation S-K. Based on our review and discussions with management, we have recommended to the Board that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in this proxy statement and the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 27, 2024.

#### The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. Compensation Committee
Mr. Joseph Cugine (chairman)

Mr. Aylwin Lewis

Ms. Katherine Oliver

Mr. Richard Peretz

Ms. Debra Walton-Ruskin

The foregoing Report of the Compensation Committee shall not be considered soliciting material, nor shall it be deemed “filed” for any purpose, including for the purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section. The Report of the Compensation Committee shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or under the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

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Summary Compensation Table – Fiscal Years 2022-2024

The table below summarizes the compensation paid or accrued by us during the fiscal years indicated for our chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and each of our next three highest paid executive officers, in each case whose total compensation exceeded $100,000 for fiscal 2024.

| Name and Principal Position  |     | Year |     | Salary(1) 
       ($) |     | Bonus 
 ($)   |     | Stock Awards(2)($) |     | Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation($) |     | All Other Compensation(3)($) |     |     Total 
       ($) |
| Christopher Pappas           |     | 2024 |     | 1,120,621 |     | —