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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950142-20-000324
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20200206
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200207
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200207

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001171759
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
		IRS NUMBER:				841573084
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1229

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-34851
		FILM NUMBER:		20584572

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6312 FIDDLER'S GREEN CIRCLE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 200 NORTH
		CITY:			GREENWOOD VILLAGE
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80111
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3038466000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6312 FIDDLER'S GREEN CIRCLE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 200 NORTH
		CITY:			GREENWOOD VILLAGE
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80111
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        <div style="text-indent: 31.25pt; line-height: 1.25; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">Allison&#160;Page is a business executive and the Co-Founder and President of SevenRooms, an operations,
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><font style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Greenwood Village, CO &#8211; February 7, 2020 &#8211; </font><font style="font-family: Arial;">Red Robin Gourmet
      Burgers, Inc. (NASDAQ: RRGB) (&#8220;Red Robin&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) today announced it has appointed Allison Page to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.</font></div>
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">Ms. Page currently serves as the Co-Founder and President at SevenRooms, a data-driven operations, marketing and guest engagement platform that has successfully enabled restaurant
    and hospitality operators to deliver exceptional guest experiences, streamline operations and drive repeat visits with a fully integrated approach to relationship management. Since SevenRooms&#8217; inception in 2011, Ms. Page has led the company&#8217;s strategic
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">&#8220;Allison is an accomplished, forward-thinking executive with a deep understanding of technology&#8217;s potential to positively impact the hospitality industry,&#8221; <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">said </font>David A. Pace, Red Robin&#8217;s Board Chair<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. &#8220;</font>She brings a unique consumer lens to revolutionizing the restaurant guest experience. <font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Board and
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">Ms. Page said, &#8220;I am honored to join Red Robin&#8217;s Board and look forward to working with my fellow directors and the Company&#8217;s management team to realize the full potential of the
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">In the last six months the Company has added four<font style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&#160;</font>new independent Directors to its Board. The appointment of Ms. Page will expand the Red
    Robin Board to ten Directors, nine of whom are independent. As previously announced, Director Stuart Oran has decided not to stand for re-election at the 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Following Mr. Oran&#8217;s retirement from the Board, the Company
    expects that the Board size will be reduced again to nine members.</div>
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">Allison Page is an accomplished industry executive with significant experience in restaurants, hospitality, marketing and technology. She currently serves as the Co-Founder and
    President of SevenRooms. SevenRooms&#8217; clients range from neighborhood restaurants to international, multi-concept hospitality groups including, among others, MGM Resorts, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Bloomin&#8217; Brands, Topgolf, Jumeirah Group, Wolfgang
    Puck and TAO Group. Under Ms. Page&#8217;s leadership the company has transformed the daily operations of properties in more than 250 cities globally and integrated more than 50 platforms with leading technology companies including Google, American Express,
    Facebook/Instagram, Amazon, TripAdvisor, OpenTable, Stripe, Zomato, Oracle, Agilisys and Toast. SevenRooms is venture-backed by Amazon and Comcast Ventures, and was named a &#8220;top company to watch&#8221; by <font style="font-style: italic;">Business Insider</font>
    and <font style="font-style: italic;">Skift</font>. Ms. Page previously served as founding team member at Hodes Weill &amp; Associates, an independent real estate advisory business spun out of Credit Suisse, and began her career as an investment
    banking analyst at Credit Suisse. She holds a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and was named one of Hospitality Technology&#8217;s 2019 Top Women in Restaurant Technology. She currently
    serves on the Board of Directors for the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.</div>
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>www.redrobin.com</u></font>), a casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1969 that operates through its
    wholly-owned subsidiary, Red Robin International, Inc.,&#160;and under the trade name, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews,&#160;is the Gourmet Burger Authority<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">&#8482;</sup>, famous for serving
    more than two dozen craveable, high-quality burgers with Bottomless Steak Fries<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">&#174;</sup>&#160;in a fun environment welcoming to guests of all ages. At Red Robin, burgers are more than
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  <div style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Arial;">beverages.&#160;Red Robin offers a variety of options behind the bar, including its extensive selection of local and regional beers, and cocktails. It&#8217;s now easy to take Red Robin
    anywhere with online ordering for to-go and Gourmet Burger Bar catering pickups through Yummm2Go. There are more than 550&#160;Red Robin restaurants across the United States and Canada, including those&#160;operating under franchise agreements. Red Robin&#8230; YUMMM<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">&#174;</sup>! Connect with Red Robin on&#160;<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Facebook</u></font>,&#160;<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Instagram</u></font>&#160;and&#160;<font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Twitter</u></font>.</div>
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