Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
Chunk: 9

Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 9
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oking Your Proxy
If you complete and submit a proxy, the persons named as proxies will vote the shares represented by your proxy in accordance with your instructions. If you submit a proxy but do not complete the voting instructions, the persons named as proxies will vote the shares represented by your proxy as follows:

• FOR the election of Ivy Brown, Steven F. Goldstone, Aylwin Lewis, Lester Owens, Christopher Pappas, John Pappas, Richard N. Peretz, Debra Walton-Ruskin and Wendy M. Weinstein as directors to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are elected and qualified (Proposal 1);

• FOR the ratification of the selection of BDO USA, P.C. as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 26, 2025 (Proposal 2);

• FOR the non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement (Proposal 3); and

• FOR the approval of an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (Proposal 4).

If other matters come before the Annual Meeting, the persons named as proxies will vote on such matters in accordance with their best judgment. We have not received notice of other matters that may properly be presented at the Annual Meeting.

You may revoke or revise your proxy at any time before it is exercised by (1) delivering to us a signed proxy card with a date later than your previously delivered proxy, (2) voting via the internet while attending the virtual Annual Meeting, (3) granting a subsequent proxy through the internet or telephone or (4) sending a written revocation to our corporate secretary at 100 East Ridge Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877. Attendance at the Annual Meeting through the internet will not itself be deemed to revoke your proxy unless you vote via the internet while attending the Annual Meeting. If you attend the Annual Meeting via the internet and want to vote via the internet, you can request that your previously submitted proxy not be used. If your shares are held through a broker, bank or other institution in “street name”, you will need to obtain a proxy form from the institution that holds your shares. Your most current proxy card or telephone or internet proxy is the one that is counted.

If you hold shares of common stock in a stock brokerage account or through a bank or other nominee, you are considered to be the beneficial owner of shares held in “street