Department of Labor filing
Spot something wrong?NOODLES & COMPANY
PPT 401(K) PLAN · For the plan year ended Dec 31, 2025
Legal sponsor: PASTA PER TRIO DBA NOODLES & COMPANY
Public filing 2025 · received Jul 8, 2026Verified current terms Not available
Plan summary
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59Fair plan health
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Published only when at least four measures and half of the model weight are available. Missing information is excluded rather than scored as zero.
A current plan document is needed to verify the formula.
$430 was reported per active participant, but this is not a match limit.
A dated plan document is needed.
Plan-paid administrative cost per participant; fund and employee fees may be separate.
The public filing does not provide a current, complete fund menu.
A current plan document is needed.
The selected official filing does not establish a current default rate.
The reviewed official source does not establish current Roth availability.
Up 0.0% over the filing history shown.
Participation up 0.0% · assets up 0.0% · loans 4.9% of assets
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Keep in mind: public filings do not show employee investment returns. Scores use only available measures; missing information lowers confidence, never the score. Current match, vesting, eligibility, investments, and employee-paid fees still require a current plan document.
Filing comparison · 202545out of 100 among similar-size plans in the same industry when enough peers exist
How this filing compares
Reported employer contributions52nd percentileTypical peer $401 · based on 8,702 comparable plans
Lower reported administrative expense28th percentileTypical peer $19 · based on 9,138 comparable plans
This comparison uses historical filing figures. It does not compare current match formulas, vesting, investments, or employee fees.
Peer-group method: industry size. The comparison used the most specific peer group with enough valid filings.
The short version
What employees should know
For the year ended Dec 31, 2025, NOODLES & COMPANY reported $33,997 in employer contributions across this plan, or $430 per active participant. This is the best company-wide filing average available—not a promise of what any one employee receives.
Up 0.0% across the filing years shown. The filing does not report every employee who was eligible.
Change in employer contributions per active participant.
Change in reported administrative cost per participant. Fund expenses may be separate.
Compared with similarly sized plans in the same industry.
What this public record cannot answer
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Money and scale
Contributions, assets, and expenses
These are plan-wide totals. They are not individual account balances.
- Employer contributions
- $33,997 $430 per active participant
- Participant contributions
- $41,499
- Other contributions
- Not reported Amounts not classified as employer or participant contributions
- Employer share of contributions
- 45.0%
- Active participants
- 79 Small plan
- Total participants
- 84 100 at the beginning of the year
- Ending assets
- $658,762 $7,842 per participant
- Net-asset change
- Up 0.0% Not the same as investment performance
- Beginning net assets
- $693,377
- Ending net assets
- $658,762
- Beginning liabilities
- Not reported
- Ending liabilities
- Not reported
- Total income
- $164,819
- Total expenses
- $199,434
- Administrative expenses
- $4,101 $49 per active participant
- Participant loans
- $32,009 4.9% of plan assets
Three-year filing history
How the reported figures changed
Each chart uses the selected public filing for that year. Missing values remain blank rather than becoming zero.
2025
$430
2025
$49
2025
79
2025
$658,762
2025
4.9%
| Plan year | Employer money per active participant | Active participants | Plan assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $430 | 79 | 658.8K |
Changes in plan assets are not the same as investment performance.
Plan health
Operational signals worth checking
- Participant loans as a share of plan assets
- 4.9%
- Independent accountant’s opinion
- Not stated in the filing
- Late participant contributions reported
- Not reportedA “yes” needs context and is not, by itself, proof of wrongdoing.
- Loan defaults reported
- Not reported
- Lease defaults reported
- Not reportedOnly a small number of filings report these events.
- Nonexempt transactions reported
- Not reported
- Public plan identifier
- 870723790-020
Reported plan details
Identity and filing status
- Plan type
- Retirement plan
- Employer arrangement
- 1
- Plan effective date
- Jan 1, 2015
- Industry
- Accommodation and food services
- Amended filing
- No
- Final filing for this plan
- No
- Short plan year
- No
- 401(k) feature reported
- Yes
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2E2F2G2J2K2T3D
Company filings
What the company has told the SEC about this plan
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10-K · report period Dec 30, 2025NOODLES & Co — 10-K filed 2026-03-26 ↗
Official filing · details not yet checkedWhat it says about employer contributions
n, the Company may, at its discretion, make contributions to the 4 01(k) Plan. Participants are 100 % vested in their own contributions. In 2019, the board of directors authorized matching contributions equal to 25 % of the first 4 % of compensation that is deferred by the participant. The Company recognized matching contribution expense of $ 0.4 million in each of the fiscal years 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Deferred Compensation Plan The Company’s deferred compensation plan, under which compensation deferrals began in 2013, is a non-qualified deferred compensation plan which allows highly compensated employees to defer a portion of their base salary and variable compensation, including 401(k) refund, each plan year. To offset its obligation, the Company holds a portfolio of mutual
What it says about vesting
awards (except for RSUs and PSUs) granted under the 2023 Plan have a life of ten years . Most awards vest ratably over four years ; however, some have been granted with different vesting schedules. Of the awards outstanding, none have been granted to non-employees (except those granted to non-employee members of the Board of Directors of the Company) under the 2023 Plan. In 2022, the Company launched the General Manager (“GM”) Equity program which granted RSUs to top performing general managers with a three year cliff vesting. The final grant under the GM Equity program was in the first quarter of 2024. At December 30, 2025, approxima tely 0.4 million ( 3.3 million prior to the Reverse Stock Split) sha re-based awards were available to be granted under the 2023 Plan. The number of shares
What it says about fees
incurred and were $ 14.8 million, $ 12.7 million and $ 10.8 million in 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. These costs are included in other restaurant operating costs, general and administrative expenses and pre-opening costs based on the nature of the advertising and marketing costs incurred. Rent Rent expense for the Company’s leases, which generally have escalating rentals over the term of the lease, is recorded on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Additionally, tenant incentives used to fund leasehold improvements are recognized when earned and reduce the right-of-use asset related to the lease. These are amortized through the right-of-use asset as reductions of expense over the lease term. Some of the Company’s leases include rent escalations based on inflation indexes and fa
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Filing ACK_ID20260708092048NAL0016202419001
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