Alex Aldous
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Government Relations Officer
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The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHEF) Q2 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-07-29. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.
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Chris Pappas
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Jim Leddy
Chief Financial Officer
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.051 -- 00:00:04.194 Greetings and welcome to the Chefs' Warehouse Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference 00:00:04.194 -- 00:00:07.757 Call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. 00:00:07.757 -- 00:00:12.201 I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Alex Aldous, General Counsel, 00:00:12.201 -- 00:00:15.243 Corporate Secretary, and Chief Government Relations Officer. 00:00:15.243 -- 00:00:17.824 Please go ahead, sir. 00:00:17.946 -- 00:00:19.847 Thank you, Operator. Good morning, everyone. 00:00:19.847 -- 00:00:24.851 With me on today's call are Chris Pappas, Founder, Chairman and CEO, and Jim Leddy, 00:00:24.851 -- 00:00:29.418 our CFO. Thank you for joining us today. 00:00:45.497 -- 00:00:50.201 and adjusted EBITDA as well as historical adjusted net income, adjusted earnings per 00:00:50.201 -- 00:00:55.406 share, adjusted operating expenses, adjusted operating expenses as a percentage 00:00:55.406 -- 00:01:00.530 of net sales and as a percentage of gross profit, net debt, net debt leverage 00:01:00.530 -- 00:01:05.535 and free cash flow. These measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP 00:01:05.535 -- 00:01:10.479 and may be calculated differently in similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used 00:01:10.479 -- 00:01:15.466 by other companies. quantitative reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures to 00:01:15.466 -- 00:01:20.550 their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures appear in today's press release 00:01:20.550 -- 00:01:24.613 and second quarter 2026 earnings presentation. 00:01:24.613 -- 00:01:28.956 Before we begin our formal remarks, I need to remind everyone that part of our discussion 00:01:28.956 -- 00:01:33.860 today will include forward-looking statements, including statemen...