Company: FWRG
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001789940-25-000031
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Company: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-08
Form: DEF 14A
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What is the difference between holding shares as a “stockholder of record” and a “street name” holder?

If your shares are registered directly in your name through Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the Company’s transfer agent, you are considered a “stockholder of record.” If your shares are held in a brokerage account, bank or through another intermediary, you are considered a “street name” holder.

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#### What constitutes a quorum?
The presence in person or by proxy of the holders of record of a majority in voting power of the shares entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business at the meeting. If you submit a properly executed proxy or voting instruction card or properly cast your vote via the Internet, or by telephone, your shares will be considered part of the quorum, even if you abstain from voting or withhold authority to vote as to a particular proposal. Under Delaware law, we also will consider as present for purposes of determining whether a quorum exists any abstentions and any shares represented by “broker non-votes.”

#### How do I vote?
You can vote in any of the following ways. Please check your proxy card or contact your broker for voting instructions.

If your shares are registered in your name (as a stockholder of record)

To vote by Internet or telephone : Log on to the website or call the toll-free number set forth in the notice of meeting mailed to you and follow the instructions.

To vote by mail : If you received a printed copy of the proxy materials, complete, sign, date, and mail your proxy card in the enclosed, postage-prepaid envelope.

To vote during the meeting : Log onto the website www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/FWRG2025, follow the instructions and vote at the Annual Meeting via the Internet.

If your shares are held in “street name”

You should give instructions to your broker on how to vote your shares. If you do not provide voting instructions to your broker, your broker has discretion to vote those shares on matters that are routine. However, a broker cannot vote shares on non-routine matters without your instructions. This is referred to as a “broker non-vote.” Under the rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”), the Director Election Proposal is non-routine and, as such, a broker does not have the discretion to vote on the Director Election Proposal if such broker has not received instructions from the beneficial owner of the shares represented. The