Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000807882-25-000072
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Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 24
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 some of which have significantly greater financial resources, as well as with locally-owned or independent restaurants in the quick-service and the fast-casual segments, and with other consumer options including grocery and specialty or convenience stores, catering, and delivery services. In selling franchises, we compete with many other restaurant franchisors, some of whom have substantially greater financial resources than we do.

Human Capital Management

Jack in the Box and Del Taco recognizes and takes care of its employees by paying competitive wages and offering a wide range of benefits and recognition programs. We are proud of our employees, many of whom began their career in our restaurants as their first entry-level job, are given the opportunity to grow and advance their careers as we invest in their education and career development.

As of September 28, 2025, for our combined brands, we had 5,046 employees, of whom 4,440 were restaurant employees, 553 were corporate management and staff, and 53 were field operations management. Most of our employees are paid on an hourly basis, except for district and restaurant managers, and certain restaurant support center management and staff positions. We employ both full-time and part-time restaurant employees in order to provide the flexibility necessary during peak periods of restaurant operations and meet the individual needs of our employees. As of the end of fiscal 2025, approximately 84% of our restaurant employees were part-time. We have not experienced any significant work stoppages.

Our Total Rewards framework includes pay and recognition, health and wellness, financial well-being, work/life happiness, culture and community, and learning and development. We take care in providing employees with market-competitive pay and benefits and flexibility with regard to benefit choices. For our company-operated restaurants nationwide, positions are assigned to a pay range that best reflects geographic market pricing of similar jobs in the restaurant industry, and additionally for restaurants in California, pay requirements under AB 1228 regulation. We generally review employees’ pay annually. All restaurant support center positions, and restaurant management positions, including hourly assistant managers and team leaders, are eligible for performance-based cash incentives. Each incentive plan reinforces and rewards individuals for achievement of specific company and/or restaurant business goals.

We regularly review the pay of our female and male employees to ensure pay equity for performing equal or substantially similar work. We share the median pay of our male and female employees in various position classifications with the Board of Directors, and we take remedial action as appropriate to ensure pay equity is maintained.

We offer a robust benefits package that includes medical (including an