Tim McCauley - 18 Feb 2026 Form 4 Insider Report for Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)

Role
Chief Accounting Officer
Signature
/s/ Alexandros Aldous, Attorney-in-Fact for Tim McCauley
Issuer symbol
CHEF
Transactions as of
18 Feb 2026
Net transactions value
-$693,978
Form type
4
Filing time
26 Feb 2026, 21:46:24 UTC
Previous filing
15 Jul 2025
Next filing
03 Mar 2026
SEC
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Reporting Owners (1)

Name Relationship Address Signature Signature date CIK
McCauley Tim Chief Accounting Officer 100 EAST RIDGE ROAD, RIDGEFIELD /s/ Alexandros Aldous, Attorney-in-Fact for Tim McCauley 26 Feb 2026 0001732021

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction CHEF Common Stock Sale $525,000 -7,500 -14% $70.00 44,662 18 Feb 2026 Direct F1, F2
transaction CHEF Common Stock Award +3,501 +7.8% 48,163 24 Feb 2026 Direct F3
transaction CHEF Common Stock Tax liability $139,408 -1,925 -4% $72.42 46,238 24 Feb 2026 Direct F4
transaction CHEF Common Stock Award +4,197 +9.1% 50,435 24 Feb 2026 Direct F5
transaction CHEF Common Stock Tax liability $29,569 -410 -0.81% $72.12 50,025 25 Feb 2026 Direct F6
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 The sale of shares was executed pursuant to a 10b5-1 plan put in place by the Reporting Person on March 13, 2025.
F2 Includes shares of the Issuer's common stock purchased pursuant to the The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
F3 Shares acquired upon the certification of performance conditions applicable to performance-based restricted common stock awarded to the reporting person pursuant to the Plan.
F4 Shares withheld upon the vesting of performance-based restricted common stock awarded to the reporting person pursuant to the Plan.
F5 The reporting person was granted shares of restricted common stock pursuant to The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. Amended and Restated 2019 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). The forfeiture restrictions associated with 3,228 of these shares will lapse in one-third increments as of the first through third anniversary dates of February 24, 2026. The forfeiture restrictions associated with 969 of these shares will lapse upon achievement of performance conditions based on the per-share price of the Issuer's common stock.
F6 Shares withheld upon the vesting of restricted common stock awarded to the reporting person pursuant to the Plan.