Company: FWRG
Filing Date: 2025-05-21
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001789940-25-000048
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Company: First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-21
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.07
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Item 5.07 - Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On May 21, 2025, First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (the “ Company”) held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “ Annual Meeting”). At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders (1) elected each of the Company’s Class I director nominees for Class I directors and (2) ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 28, 2025. A more complete description of each proposal is set forth in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8, 2025. The final results with respect to each proposal are set forth below.

Proposal One - Election of Class I Directors

The stockholders elected each of the four nominees named below as Class I directors to serve until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. The results of such vote were:

  Class I Director Nominee             For        Withheld      Broker Non-Vote  
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Michael Fleisher              52,956,871         903,733            4,157,258  
  William Kussell               39,002,617      14,857,987            4,157,258  
  Stephanie Lilak               52,009,219       1,851,385            4,157,258  
  Jostein Solheim               52,085,815       1,774,789            4,157,258  

Proposal Two - Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The stockholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 28, 2025. The results of such vote were:

         For      Against      Abstentions  
 ────────────────────────────────────────────
  57,439,140      487,887           90,835  

Item 9.01 - Financial Statements and Exhibits.