Company: JACK
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0000807882-25-000037
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Company: JACK IN THE BOX INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-02
Form: 8-A12B
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### FORM 8-A

### FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES

#### PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF

#### THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

#### JACK IN THE BOX INC.
<div align='center'>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| Delaware                                 |     |            95-2698708 |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction             
 of Incorporation)                        |     |      -I.R.S. Employer 
 Identification Number |
| 9357 Spectrum Center Blvd, San Diego, CA |     |                 92123 |
| (Address of principal executive offices) |     |             -Zip Code |

<div align='center'>Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:</div>

| Title of each class   |     | Name of each exchange on which 
 each class is to be registered |
| Stock Purchase Rights |     | NASDAQ Stock Market            |

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c) or (e), check the following box. ☒

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d) or (e), check the following box. ☐

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities concurrently with a Regulation A offering, check the following box. ☐

Securities Act registration statement or Regulation A offering statement file number to which this form relates: Not Applicable

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

| None             |
| (Title of Class) |

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## Item 1.
Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered .

On July 1, 2025, the Board of Directors of Jack in the Box Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), declared a dividend of one right (a “Right”) for each outstanding share of common stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company held of record at the close of business on July