Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001517175-25-000003
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Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
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 and take them into consideration when making future decisions regarding our executive compensation programs.

The Board unanimously recommends that stockholders vote “FOR” the advisory vote on executive compensation. Proxies received by the Board will be voted “FOR” the advisory vote on executive compensation unless a contrary choice is specified in the proxy.

#### Vote Required
An affirmative vote of a majority of the shares represented at the Annual Meeting in person (including by webcast) or by properly executed proxy and entitled to vote on Proposal 3 is necessary for approval. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 3, and abstentions will be equivalent to a vote against this proposal. If no voting specification is made on a properly returned or voted proxy card, the proxies will vote FOR Proposal 3.

<div align='center'>PROPOSAL 4 — APPROVAL OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPANY’S AMENDED AND RESTATED 2019 OMNIBUS EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN</div>

#### Background
Upon recommendation of the Compensation Committee, the Board adopted The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan on December 15, 2018, subject to shareholder approval, which we received at our 2019 annual meeting of stockholders (the “2019 Plan”), and on February 24, 2022, the Board approved The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. Amended and Restated 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “Amended 2019 Plan”), subject to shareholder approval, which we achieved at our 2022 annual meeting. We are now requesting that our stockholders approve an

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amendment to the Amended 2019 Plan to increase the number of shares available for grant under the 2019 Plan by 1,550,000 shares (the “2019 Plan Amendment”). Under Nasdaq rules, the 2019 Plan Amendment will not be effective if our stockholders do not approve it. If our stockholders do not approve the 2019 Plan Amendment, we may be required to re-evaluate our compensation structure to ensure that it remains competitive.

The purpose of the 2019 Plan Amendment is to align employees’ and non-employee directors’ interests with those of our stockholders and to allow the Company to award the equity incentives important to our compensation program for the foreseeable future, while resulting in no more than a reasonable amount of potential equity dilution. The Board believes that