Company: CHEF
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001517175-25-000002
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Company: Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 22
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 our employees, professional learning and development courses are provided for all employees. Our employees can readily choose to take courses in categories such as safety, leadership, management, sales and business acumen, and courses may also be assigned to our employees based on job function.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We believe that a diverse workforce creates a healthier, stronger and more sustainable company. As a foundation of diversity and inclusion, we focus on increasing underrepresented populations across our business. In 2024, approximately 70% of our employees, and more than 20% of our management, were diverse. We have diversity equity & inclusion monthly programming that celebrates the wide variety of diverse employees and topics that impact our employees. Each year, we conduct mandatory training on diversity equity & inclusion topics and provide managers with practical tools to operate in today’s global environment and develop their skill sets, awareness and business acumen in this on-going matter of being diverse and inclusive.

Social and Environmental Responsibility

Our corporate policies, overseen by the ESG Committee, are intended to further strengthen and promote our commitment to social and environmental responsibility with our directors, employees, leaders and business partners. Our policy on salient human rights risks identifies key human rights issues related to our business activities and business relationships, including promoting a safe and healthy work environment, providing a fair and inclusive work environment and combating forced and underage labor. Our Human Rights Policy details our commitment to upholding fundamental human rights, and our Code of Conduct for Suppliers reflects our commitment to extending ethical business practices throughout our supply chain. Our Environmental, Health and Safety Policy promotes and protects the health and safety of our employees and reinforces our commitment to environmental stewardship, such as through our endorsement of the United Nations Global Compact CEO Water Mandate.

Regulation

As a distributor of specialty food products and meat and seafood in the United States and Canada, we are subject to regulation by numerous international, federal, state, provincial and local regulatory agencies. For example, at the U.S. federal level, we are subject to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the Food Safety Modernization Act, the Bioterrorism Act and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). The FDA regulates manufacturing and holding requirements for foods, specifies the standards of identity for certain foods and prescribes the format and content of certain information 

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required to appear on food product labels, among other responsibilities. For certain product lines, we are also subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products