# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001546417
**File Stem:** 0001546417-25-000137
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 8969
**Document Hash:** 9dd105f92abe62a2f7acefe868e6a81e
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001546417-25-000137.hdr.sgml**: 20251006

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001546417-25-000137

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251001

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Regulation FD Disclosure

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251006

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251006

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Bloomin' Brands, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001546417
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 07 Trade & Services
- **EIN:** 208023465
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1228

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-35625
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251375702

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 2202 NORTH WEST SHORE BOULEVARD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 500
- **CITY:** TAMPA
- **STATE:** FL
- **ZIP:** 33607
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 813-282-1225

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 2202 NORTH WEST SHORE BOULEVARD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 500
- **CITY:** TAMPA
- **STATE:** FL
- **ZIP:** 33607

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

Washington, D.C. 20549

**FORM 8-K** 

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) **October 1, 2025**![blmnlogov3.jpg](blmn-20251001_g1.jpg)

**BLOOMIN' BRANDS, INC.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware** | **001-35625** | **20-8023465** |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer<br>Identification No.) |

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**2202 North West Shore Boulevard, Suite 500, Tampa, FL 33607** 

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code **(813) 282-1225** 

**N/A**

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

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

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| Title of each class | Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| **Common Stock** | **$0.01 par value** | **BLMN** | **The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC** <br>**(Nasdaq Global Select Market)** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

    

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**Item 7.01**&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Regulation FD Disclosure**

On October 1, 2025, OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC ("OSI"), a subsidiary of Bloomin' Brands, Inc. (the "Company"), entered into eight interest rate swap agreements with eight counterparties (the "Swap Transactions") to manage its exposure to fluctuations in variable interest rates. The Swap Transactions have an aggregate notional amount of $300 million and include 12 and 21-month tenors with the following terms:

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| **AGGREGATE NOTIONAL AMOUNT** | **WEIGHTED AVERAGE FIXED INTEREST RATE (1)** | **EFFECTIVE DATE** | **TERMINATION DATE** |
| $100000000 | 3.37% | December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2026 |
| $200000000 | 3.18% | March 31, 2026 | December 31, 2027 |

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(1)The weighted averaged fixed interest rate excludes the term SOFR adjustment and interest rate spread described below.

Upon the effective date, as a result of the Swap Transactions, the Company effectively converted $300 million of its outstanding indebtedness from the Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR"), plus a term SOFR adjustment of 0.10% and a spread of 150 to 250 basis points to the weighted average fixed interest rate within the table above, plus a term SOFR adjustment of 0.10% and a spread of 150 to 250 basis points. The Swap Transactions have an embedded floor of minus 0.10%.

<u>Forward-Looking Statements</u>

Certain statements contained herein are not based on historical fact and are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Generally, these statements can be identified by the use of words such as "guidance," "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "on track," "feels," "forecasts," "seeks," "projects," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," "should," "could," "would" and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to execute and achieve the expected benefits of our turnaround plans; consumer reaction to public health and food safety issues; increases in labor costs and fluctuations in the availability of employees and our ability to attract, train, and retain key personnel; increases in unemployment rates and taxes; competition; interruption or breach of our systems or loss of consumer or employee information; price and availability of commodities and other impacts of inflation and tariffs; our dependence on a limited number of suppliers and distributors; political, social and legal conditions in international markets and their effects on foreign operations and foreign currency exchange rates; the impacts of our operations in Brazil as a minority investor and franchisor following our sale transaction on our results; our ability to address corporate citizenship and sustainability matters and investor expectations; local, regional, national and international economic conditions; changes in patterns of consumer traffic, consumer tastes and dietary habits; the effects of changes in tax laws; costs, diversion of management attention and reputational damage from any claims or litigation; government actions and policies; challenges associated with our remodeling, relocation and expansion plans; our ability to preserve the value of and grow our brands; consumer confidence and spending patterns; the effects of a health pandemic, weather, acts of God and other disasters and the ability or success in executing related business continuity plans; the Company's ability to make debt payments and planned investments and the Company's compliance with debt covenants; the cost and availability of credit; interest rate changes; and any impairments in the carrying value of goodwill and other assets. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of the Company and its forward-looking statements is included in its most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as may be required by law. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

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**Item 9.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial Statements and Exhibits**

(d) Exhibits.

 Exhibit <u>Number</u> <u>Description</u> <br> 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| | | | **BLOOMIN' BRANDS, INC.** |
| | | | (Registrant) |
| Date: | October 6, 2025 | By: | /s/ Eric Christel |
|  |  |  | Eric Christel |
|  |  |  | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer<br>(Principal Financial Officer) |

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