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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 the Board’s determination that such simultaneous service would not impair the ability of such member to effectively serve on the Company’s Audit Committee. Directors must notify the chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee in advance of accepting an invitation to serve on another corporate board. Directors are also required to notify the Board when their principal occupation or business association changes, at which point the Board will evaluate the propriety of continued Board service.

We maintain a corporate governance page on our website that includes key information about our corporate governance initiatives. The corporate governance page can be found at www.chefswarehouse.com, by clicking on “Investors,” and then clicking on “Corporate Governance.” Copies of our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our Insider Trading Policy and the charters for each of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and ESG Committee can be found on the corporate governance page of our website (www.chefswarehouse.com). We have also adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (“Code of Ethics”) that applies to all of our employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer and controller. Our Code of Ethics is publicly available on the corporate governance page of our website (www.chefswarehouse.com) and can be found by clicking on “Investors,” and then clicking on “Corporate Governance.” If we make any substantive amendments to the Code of Ethics or grant any waiver, including any implicit waiver, from a

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provision of the Code of Ethics to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions, we intend to make any legally required disclosures regarding such amendments or waivers on the Investors section of our website (www.chefswarehouse.com). Information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this proxy statement or considered to be part of this document.

#### Director Independence
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines require a majority of the members of the Board to be “independent directors” as such term is defined in the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The Board, upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, has determined that seven of its nine members nominated for election at the Annual Meeting are independent. Our seven independent directors are Ms. Brown, Mr. Goldstone, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Owens, Mr. Peretz, Ms. Walton-Ruskin and Ms. Weinstein. Mr. C. Pappas and Mr. J. Pappas are our employees; therefore, Mr. C