# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001508478
**File Stem:** 0000950103-26-002872
**Filing Date:** 2026-2
**Character Count:** 4640
**Document Hash:** 9740b4d2f4f9c7670c086156ff50aad3
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000950103-26-002872.hdr.sgml**: 20260227

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000950103-26-002872

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: S-8 POS

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260227

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260227

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260227

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001508478
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 07 Trade & Services
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** S-8 POS
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-173496
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26700969

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** RIO NEGRO 1338, FIRST FLOOR
- **CITY:** MONTEVIDEO
- **STATE:** X3
- **ZIP:** 11300
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 598 2626-3000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** RIO NEGRO 1338, FIRST FLOOR
- **CITY:** MONTEVIDEO
- **STATE:** X3
- **ZIP:** 11300

**As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2026**

**Registration No. 333-173496**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**<br> **Washington, D.C. 20549**

**POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO.1 TO FORM S-8<br> REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-173496**

**ARCOS DORADOS HOLDINGS INC.**<br> (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

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| **British Virgin Islands** | **5812** | **Not Applicable** |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of <br> Incorporation or Organization) | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (I.R.S. Employer <br> Identification No.) |
|  | **Rio Negro 1338, First Floor<br> Montevideo, Uruguay, 11100** |  |

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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

**Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Equity Incentive Plan**<br> (Full Titles of the Plans)

**Roman Ajzen<br> Secretary<br> LatAm, LLC<br> 251 Little Falls Drive<br> Wilmington, DE 19808<br> Phone: (302) 635-5400**

(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

*With copies to:*

**Maurice Blanco<br> Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP<br> 450 Lexington Avenue<br> New York, NY 10017<br> Phone: (212) 450-4000**

**Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.** 

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|:---|:---|
| **Large accelerated filer** ☒ | **Accelerated filer** ☐ |
| **Non-accelerated filer** ☐ **(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)** | **Smaller reporting company** ☐ |

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**EXPLANATORY NOTE**

**DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES**

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (the "Registrant") is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") this post-effective amendment (this "Post-Effective Amendment") to deregister the shares of Class A shares, no par value (the "Shares"), previously registered under the Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed with the Commission on April 14, 2011 (Commission File No. 333-173496) (the "Registration Statement"), with respect to 5,238,235 Shares, thereby registered for offer or sale pursuant to the Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan"), together with any and all plan interests registered thereunder.

The Registrant is no longer issuing securities under the Plan. Accordingly, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of the Registrant's securities pursuant to the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. Effective upon filing hereof, the Registrant hereby removes from registration any and all securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant, Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc., certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Montevideo, Uruguay, on the 27th day of February 2026.

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| Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. | Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. | Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. |
| By: | /s/ Roman Ajzen | /s/ Roman Ajzen |
|  | Name: | Roman Ajzen |
|  | Title: | Chief Legal Officer |

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No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.