Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On December 8, 2021, the Board of Directors of El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. (the "Company"), upon the recommendation of the Company's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, elected Deborah Gonzalez as a Class I independent director of the Company and Nancy Faginas-Cody as a Class II independent director of the Company, effective December 9, 2021.

Ms. Gonzalez is expected to serve for an initial term expiring at the 2024 Annual Meeting and Ms. Faginas-Cody is expected to serve for an initial term expiring at the 2022 Annual Meeting, where each may be included as one of the director nominees for election at the respective Annual Meetings, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The election of Ms. Gonzalez and Ms. Faginas-Cody fills two vacancies on the Company's Board of Directors that were created as a result of an increase in the size of the Board from nine (9) to eleven (11) directors. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee intends to consider and make recommendations to the Board regarding the appointment of both Ms. Gonzalez and Ms. Faginas-Cody to one or more committees of the Board, to be determined at a future Board meeting.

Ms. Gonzalez is currently Senior Vice President, Global Marketing & Communications for Concentrix Corporation and brings nearly thirty years of valuable marketing experience to the Board. Ms. Faginas-Cody is an accomplished senior IT executive with nearly forty-three years of experience in corporate enterprise business systems. Ms. Faginas-Cody recently retired from Walt Disney Company as its former Senior Vice President, Information Technology Enterprise Business Systems.

Ms. Gonzalez and Ms. Faginas-Cody will receive the same compensation as is paid to other non-employee directors of the Company.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

On December 13, 2021, the Company issued a press release entitled "El Pollo Loco Appoints Deborah Gonzalez and Nancy Faginas-Cody to the Board of Directors," a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.



Exhibit
No.        Description
99.1         Press release dated December 13, 2021
104        Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)






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