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Item 3. Legal Proceedings

2025-11-19 compared with 2024-11-21 · 31 added, 52 removed, 42 unchanged (66% of the section changed)

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Name Age Positions Years with the

Darin Harris 55 Chief Executive Officer 4

Brian Scott (1)

55 Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer 1

Ryan Ostrom 49 Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer 2

Lance Tucker (1)

56 Chief Executive Officer 3

Dawn Hooper 55 Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer 25

Ryan Ostrom 50 Executive Vice President, Chief Customer & Digital Officer 4

Sarah Super 49 Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer 12

Doug Cook 52 Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer 3

Tony Darden 54 Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer 3

Dawn Hooper 54 Senior Vice President, Controller 24

Tim Linderman 55 Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer 3

Van Ingram 60 Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer 3

Carl Mount 62 Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer 1

Steven Piano 60 Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer 4

Sarah Super 48 Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer 11

(1) Effective November 20, 2024, Brian Scott is departing the company to pursue a new position outside the restaurant industry.

Dawn Hooper, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Controller, will serve as the Company’s interim principal financial officer effective November 1, 2024, and as Interim Chief Financial Officer effective upon Brian Scott’s departure and until the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer, Lance Tucker, begins his employment on January 13, 2025.

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(1) The years with the company for Mr.

Tucker includes prior employment with Company.

Please see full listing of experience noted below.

The following sets forth the business experience of each executive officer for at least the last five years:

Harris has been Chief Executive Officer since June 2020.

He was previously Chief Executive Officer of North America for flexible working company, IWG PLC, Regus, North America, from April 2018 to May 2020.

Prior to that, from August 2013 to January 2018, Mr.

Harris served as Chief Executive Officer of CiCi’s Enterprises LP.

For just under five years, Mr.

Harris also served as Chief Operating Officer for Primrose Schools from November 2008 to July 2013.

He previously held franchise leadership roles as Senior Vice President at Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc, from June 2005 to October 2008 and Vice President, Franchise and Corporate Development at Captain D’s Seafood, Inc., from May 2000 to January 2004.

He was also a prior franchise operator of multiple Papa John’s Pizza and Qdoba Mexican Grill restaurants from November 2002 to June 2005.

Harris has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the restaurant industry encompassing operations, franchising, brand strategy and restaurant development.

Scott was hired as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in August 2023.

Scott has more than 20 years of experience leading large companies, both public and private.

Scott most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of ShiftKey and prior to that he served as Chief Financial Officer of AMN Healthcare for over 10 years.

In his prior roles, Mr.

Scott oversaw accounting, finance, corporate financial planning and analysis, capital funding, investor relations and internal audit functions as well as certain shared services operations.

Scott started his career with KPMG LLP and was also a partner in a mid-sized CPA firm.

Scott currently serves on the private-equity backed boards of Thriveworks and Hueman.

Scott received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and a Master of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ostrom has been Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer since February 2021.

Tucker has been Chief Executive Officer since March 2025 and served as the Company’s interim principal executive officer since February 2025.

He started as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in January 2025.

Tucker previously served in that same role as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer from March 2018 to September 2020.

Prior to rejoining the Company, from January 2022 until December 2025 he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Davidson Hotel Company LLC, from September 2020 until January 2022 served as the Chief Financial Officer of CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc., and from June 2009 until February 2018 he held several senior finance and accounting leadership positions at Papa John’s International, Inc., including as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer from February 2011 to February 2018.

Tucker has over 20 years of corporate finance experience.

Tucker graduated from Transylvania University with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

Hooper has been Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since May 2025, and has been with Jack in the Box since October 2000.

She previously held positions of increasing responsibility in accounting since joining the Company in 2000, including Interim CFO, Controller, Assistant Controller, Vice President of Financial Reporting and Senior Manager of Corporate Accounting.

Prior to joining the company, she began her career with KPMG LLP where she worked from September 1993 to September 2000.

Hooper has more than 30 years in experience in accounting and finance.

Hooper received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from University of San Diego from the Knauss School of Business.

Ostrom has been Executive Vice President, Chief Customer & Digital Officer since November 2023, and previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer since February 2021.

Ostrom has over 15 years of marketing and branding experience.

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Ostrom also has held roles at Kenmore, Craftsman & DieHard at Sears Holding Corporation, and Reebok.

Super has been Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer since March 2025.

She previously served as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer since March 2020, served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel since November 2019, and previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel from May 2018 until November 2019.

Prior to joining the Company in December 2013, she was a partner at the law firm of Gordon & Rees.

Super has more than 15 years of legal experience.

Cook has been Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since October 2021.

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Cook held several positions at Sonic, applying leading-edge technologies and analytics to grow the company’s innovation and market position.

Darden has been Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since June 2021.

He has more than 20 years of cross functional executive leadership experience.

Most recently, he served as the President of Mooyah, LLC, a privately held American fast casual hamburger restaurant chain headquartered in Plano, TX from April 2019 until June 2021.

Prior to that, from May 2017 until April 2019, Mr.

Darden served as the Chief Operating Officer of Taco Bueno Restaurants, L.P.

(“Taco Bueno”), a privately held quick serve restaurant chain headquartered in Farmers Branch, TX that operates Tex-Mex style restaurants throughout the American South and Southwest.

Through its acquisition of Taco Bueno, from December 2018 until April 2019, Mr.

Darden also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Sun Holdings, Inc., a multi-concept franchisee based in Dallas, TX which owns and operates restaurants across eight states among different brands including Arby’s, Burger King, CiCi’s Pizza, Golden Corral, Krispy Kreme, Popeyes, and Taco Bueno.

From February 2011 to May 2017, he served as the Vice President of Operation of Panera, LLC, an American chain store of bakery-café casual restaurants.

Darden received his Bachelor of Arts, Interpersonal Communications from Azusa Pacific University.

Ingram has been Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer since August 2025.

He previously served as Interim Chief Development Officer since June 2025, served as Vice President, Franchise Development since October 2023, and served as Vice President, Franchise Recruitment from February 2022 until October 2023.

Ingram has over 30 years experience selling franchise territories and launching new markets for several brands.

Ingram has held several leadership positions in restaurant development and franchising, including for Wingstop Restaurants, Inc., Golden Corral Corporation, Taco John’s International, Inc., Arby’s Restaurant Group, Quiznos, and Yum!

Ingram received his master’s degree in Business Administration at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business.

Mount has been Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer since August 2024 and brings over 30 years of experience in U.S.

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Mount received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and his MBA from the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business.

Hooper has been Senior Vice President, Controller since December 2022, and has been with Jack in the Box since October 2000.

Prior to joining the company, she began her career with KPMG LLP where she worked from September 1993 to September 2000.

Hooper has more than 30 years in experience in accounting and finance.

Hooper received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from University of San Diego from the Knauss School of Business.

Linderman has been Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer since April 2022, and previously held the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Franchise and Corporate Development Officer since August 2021.

He held the position of Senior Vice President, Franchise and Corporate Development from October 2020 through July 2021.

He has over 18 years of experience in the franchise industry.

He most recently served as Chief Development Officer of Ascent Hospitality Management, LLC, a restaurant management company, from July 2019 to October 2020.

Prior to that, from January 2014 until July 2019, he was the Chief Development Officer at Global Franchise Group, LLC, where he oversaw franchise sales, real estate, and construction for Great American Cookies, Marble Slab Creamery, Pretzelmaker, MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream and Treatery and Hot Dog on a Stick.

Before that, he was the Director of Franchise Development for Primrose School Franchising Company and held that same position at Arby’s.

Piano has been Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer since April 2021.

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Piano has also held leadership positions with Lehman Brothers, Citibank, and others.

Super has been Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer since March 2020, served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel since November 2019, and previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel from May 2018 until November 2019.

Prior to joining the Company in December 2013, she was a partner at the law firm of Gordon & Rees.

Super has more than 15 years of legal experience.

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