Company: RRGB
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-025001
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Company: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 incentivizing excessive risk taking ✓ No excise tax gross ups for change in control related situations ✓ No repricing of underwater options without stockholder approval 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROXY STATEMENT The Board of Directors (“Board” or “Board of Directors”) of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (“Red Robin” or the “Company”) is first providing this proxy statement on or about April [• ], 2025 to stockholders in connection with the solicitation of proxies on its behalf to be voted at the annual meeting of stockholders. The meeting will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025, beginning at 8:00 a.m. MDT, at Red Robin’s Yummm U, located at 10000 E. Geddes Avenue, Suite 500, Englewood, Colorado 80112. The proxies may be 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, 90% of our Board is independent. Our Board of Directors currently consists of ten 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, G.J. Hart, 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