Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
Chunk: 79

Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 79
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 with management the Company’s earnings press releases prior to release to the public;

• Meeting with BDO and the Company’s Director of Internal Audit, with and without management present, to discuss the adequacy and effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and the overall quality of the Company’s financial reporting; and

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• Meeting independently with each of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and General Counsel.

With respect to fiscal 2024, the Audit Committee hereby reports as follows:

• The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements with the Company’s management and representatives from its independent registered public accounting firm, BDO.

• The Audit Committee has discussed with its independent registered public accounting firm, BDO, the matters required to be discussed by the statement on Auditing Standards No. 1301, Communications with Audit Committees , adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

• The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures and the letter from the independent registered public accounting firm required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding the independent registered public accounting firm’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence and has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the independent registered public accounting firm’s independence. In addition, the Audit Committee has discussed and considered whether the provision of non-audit services by the Company’s principal auditor, as described above, is compatible with maintaining auditor independence.

• Based on the review and discussion referred to in the immediately preceding first through third paragraphs above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Company’s board of directors the inclusion of the audited financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2024 for filing with the SEC.

#### The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. Audit Committee
Mr. Lester Owens (chairman)

Ms. Ivy Brown

Mr. Joseph Cugine

Ms. Debra Walton-Ruskin

The foregoing Report of the Audit 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 Audit Committee shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or under the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

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PROPOSAL 3 — ADVISORY VOTE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION</div>

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