First Watch Restaurant Group: Pay

First Watch Restaurant Group paid its one named executive on file $1.6M in FY2025 (Dec).

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY21 → $111
CEO pay is from each proxy. The stock line is the value of $100 put in the stock at the start, from the price change of each fiscal year. Dividends are not in it.

Pay of each named executive

Christopher A. TomassoPresident and Chief Executive Officer
FY2024 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2023 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2021 (Dec)Not disclosed
4 years
Mel HopeChief Financial Officer and Treasurer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2023 (Dec)Not disclosed
3 years
Jay WolszczakChief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary
FY2024 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2023 (Dec)Not disclosed
2 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2025 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 7 peers with pay on file was $7.2M. The CEO of First Watch Restaurant Group was paid $11.5M, 60% above the median.

  1. 1Brinker International
  2. 2Dave & Buster's Entertainment
  3. 3First Watch Restaurant Group
  4. 4Cheesecake Factory
  5. 5Shake Shack
  6. 6Bloomin' Brands
  7. 7Cava Group
  8. 8Portillo's
  9. 9BJ’s Restaurants, Inc.Not disclosed
  10. 10Chuy’s Holdings, Inc.Not disclosed
  11. 11Cracker Barrel Old Country StoreNot disclosed
  12. 12Denny’s CorporationNot disclosed
  13. 13Dine Brands Global, Inc.Not disclosed
  14. 14Dutch BrosNot disclosed
  15. 15Jack In The BoxNot disclosed
  16. 16Krispy Kreme, Inc.Not disclosed
  17. 17WingstopNot disclosed

Pay of each named executive comes from the Summary Compensation Table of each proxy statement. Realized pay adds the value of options used and stock that vested. CEO pay of each peer comes from its own Pay versus Performance table.