Company: RRGB
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038610
Chunk: 27

Company: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 to the peer group. The Compensation Committee believes the current mix of service-based and performance-based incentives aligns the interests of executive officers with our stockholders and was appropriate for 2024. In 2024, the RSUs were granted in March under the Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. 2017 Performance Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2017 Plan”) and the PSUs were granted in May under the Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. 2024 Performance Incentive Plan (the “2024 Plan”) following approval by stockholders. 35

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Employee Benefits We also provide certain other customary retirement and health and welfare benefits and other ancillary compensation to executives, which are generally in line with those offered to other groups of our employees, and which comprise a modest portion of our named executive officer compensation. Modest Perquisites We offer a limited number of modest perquisites to our named executive officers, including a phone allowance and in-restaurant meal discounts. In addition, where appropriate, we offer usual and customary relocation expense reimbursements including related tax reimbursements on relocation. We review the perquisites we offer to our executives and compare them to those offered by our competitors from time to time. Other Awards On occasion, the Compensation Committee may provide cash or equity sign-on bonuses or inducement grants to named executive officers as a material component of a new hire’s employment compensation. These awards are intended to attract talented, experienced executives to join and remain with the Company. Generally, these awards are used to incentivize candidates to leave their current employers or to offset the loss of unvested compensation they may forfeit as a result of leaving their current employers. There were no awards that met this criteria in 2024. SUMMARY OF 2024 COMPENSATION ACTIVITY Base Salary Named executive officer base salaries for 2024 and 2023 are set forth below (amounts are annualized for partial service years). As shown below, the Compensation Committee made year over year market adjustments to the base salary of our Chief Financial Officer and our Chief Legal Officer. The Compensation Committee did not make year over year adjustments to the base salary of our other named executive officers.

| Named Executive Officer | ​ | ​ | 2024 Salary |   |           |   | ​ | ​ | 2023 Salary |   |           |   | ​ | ​ | % Change |   |      |   | ​ |
| G.J. Hart               | ​ | ​ | ​