CEC ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED NON-EMPLOYEE
DIRECTORS RESTRICTED STOCK PLAN
The CEC Entertainment, Inc. Non-Employee
Directors Restricted Stock Plan (hereinafter called the
“Plan” as amended, from time to time) was adopted by
the Board of Directors of CEC Entertainment, Inc., a Kansas
corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), on
March 28, 2005, became effective in 2005 as of the date the
Plan was approved by the stockholders of the Company, and was
amended by the Board of Directors of the Company on April 17,
2007 and became effective in 2007 as of the date the amendments to
the Plan were approved by the stockholders of the Company (the
“Amendment Effective Date”). Further amendments to the
Plan were approved by the Board of Directors of the Company on
April 15, 2008 and became effective in 2008 as of the date the
amendments to the Plan were approved by the stockholders of the
Company. The amendments to the Plan reflected in this
amendment and restatement do not require stockholder approval and,
accordingly, became effective on May 8, 2009, the date such
amendments were approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board
of Directors of the Company.
ARTICLE 1
PURPOSE
The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain
and reward the services of the non-employee directors of the
Company and to provide such persons with a proprietary interest in
the Company through the granting of restricted stock that will
further align their interests with the interests of the
Company’s other stockholders. Upon the approval of the Plan
by the stockholders of the Company, the Company intends to use the
Plan as the primary means through which the Company issues equity
to its non-employee directors for their service to the Company as
directors and will discontinue issuing stock options to such
directors pursuant to the Company’s Non-Employee Directors
Stock Option Plan.
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of the Plan, unless the context
requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
2.1 “Board” means the Board of
Directors of the Company.
2.2 “Change of Control” means any of
the following: (i) any consolidation, merger or share exchange
of the Company in which the Company is not the continuing or
surviving corporation or pursuant to which shares of the
Company’s Common Stock would be converted into cash,
securities or other property, other than a consolidation, merger or
share exchange of the Company in which the holders of the
Company’s Common Stock immediately prior to such transaction
have the same proportionate ownership of Common Stock of the
surviving corporation immediately after such transaction;
(ii) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (excluding
transfer by way of pledge or hypothecation) in one transaction or a
series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company; (iii) the stockholders of the Company
approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of
the Company; (iv) the cessation of control (by virtue of their
not constituting a majority of directors) of the Board by the
individuals (the “Continuing Directors”) who were
members of the Board for the immediately preceding two
(2) years (unless the election, or the nomination for election
by the Company’s stockholders, of each new director was
approved by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the
directors then still in office who were directors at the beginning
of such a period); (v) the acquisition of beneficial ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, as
defined in Section 2.10) of an aggregate of 30% of the voting
power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities by any
person or group (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under the
Exchange Act, as defined in Section 2.10) who beneficially
owned less than 15% of the voting power of the Company’s
outstanding voting securities on the date of this Plan, or the
acquisition of beneficial ownership of an additional 15% of the
voting power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities
by any person or group who beneficially owned at least 15% of the
voting power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities
on the date of this Plan, provided , however , that
notwithstanding the foregoing, an acquisition shall not constitute
a Change of Control hereunder if the acquiror is (A) a trustee
or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit
plan of the Company and acting in such capacity, (B) a
Subsidiary of the Company or a corporation owned, directly or
indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the
same proportions as their ownership of voting securities of the
Company or (C) any other person whose acquisition of shares of
voting securities is approved in advance by a majority of the
Continuing Directors; or (vi) in a Title 11 bankruptcy
proceeding, the appointment of a trustee or the conversion of a
case involving the Company to a case under Chapter 7.
2.3 “Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
2.4 “Committee” means the committee
designated to administer the Plan in accordance with Article 3 of
this Plan.
2.5 “Common Stock” means the common
stock of the Company, par value $ 0.10 per share, which the
Company is currently authorized to issue or may in the future be
authorized to issue.
2.6 “Date of Grant” means the
effective date on which a Restricted Stock Award is made to an
Eligible Director as set forth in the applicable Restricted Stock
Agreement.
2.7 “Director” means a member of the
Board.
2.8 “Eligible Director” means a
Non-employee Director who was previously appointed or elected to
the Board and who continues to serve in such capacity at the time
for granting Restricted Stock Awards pursuant to
Section 6.1.
2.9 “Employee” means a common law
employee, including an employee who is also an Officer or Director,
(as defined in accordance with the Regulations and Revenue Rulings
then applicable under Section 3401(c) of the Code) of the
Company or any Subsidiary. “Employee” does not include
Non-employee Directors.
2.10 “Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any successor
statute. Reference in the Plan to any section of the Exchange Act
shall be deemed to include any amendments or successor provisions
to such section and rules and regulations relating to such
section.
2.11 “Fair Market Value” of a share
of Common Stock means the average of the closing prices of the
Common Stock as reported by the New York Stock Exchange for the
five trading day period ending on and including the date of a
Restricted Stock Award.
2.12 “Officer” means a person who is
an “officer” of the Company or a Subsidiary within the
meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act (whether or not the
Company is subject to the requirements of the Exchange
Act).
2.13 “Non-employee Director” means a
member of the Board who is not an Employee.
2.14 “Removal” means removal of a
Non-employee Director from the Board, with or without cause, in
accordance with the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation,
Bylaws or Kansas General Corporation Code.
2.15 “Restriction Period” means the
period during which the Common Stock under a Restricted Stock Award
is nontransferable and subject to “Forfeiture
Restrictions” as defined in Section 6.2 of the Plan and
set forth in any related Restricted Stock Agreement.
2.16 “Restricted Stock” means shares
of Common Stock issued to an Eligible Director pursuant to
Section 6.1 of this Plan which are subject to restrictions or
limitations set forth in this Plan and in any related Restricted
Stock Agreement.
2.17 “Restricted Stock Agreement”
means the written document evidencing the grant of a Restricted
Stock Award executed by the Company, including any amendments
thereto. Each Restricted Stock Agreement shall be subject to the
terms and conditions of the Plan and need not be executed by the
Eligible Director receiving the Restricted Stock Award pursuant to
the Restricted Stock Agreement.
2.18 “Restricted Stock Award” means
an award granted under Section 6.1 of this Plan of shares of
Common Stock issued to an Eligible Director.
2.19 “Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor statute.
Reference in the Plan to any section of the Securities Act shall be
deemed to include any amendments or successor provisions to such
section and any rules and regulations relating to such
section.
2.20 “Subsidiary” means (i) any
corporation in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the
Company, if each of the corporations other than the last
corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing a majority
of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one
of the other corporations in the chain, (ii) any limited
partnership, if the Company or any corporation described in item
(i) above owns a majority of the general partnership interests
and a majority of the limited partnership interests entitled to
vote on the removal and replacement of the general partner, and
(iii) any partnership or limited liability company, if the
partners or members thereof are
composed only
of the Company, any corporation listed in item (i) above or
any limited partnership listed in item (ii) above.
“Subsidiaries” means more than one of any such
corporations, limited partnerships, partnerships or limited
liability companies.
2.21 “Termination of Service” occurs
when an Eligible Director shall cease to serve as a Non-employee
Director for any reason.
ARTICLE 3
ADMINISTRATION
The Plan shall be administered by the
Compensation Committee of the Board unless and until such time as
the Board appoints other members of the Board to serve as the
Committee.
Subject to the express provisions of the Plan,
the Committee shall have power and authorities which are
exclusively ministerial in nature, including the authority to
construe and interpret the Plan, to define the terms used in the
Plan, to prescribe, amend, and rescind rules and regulations
relating to the administration of the Plan and to make all other
determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of the
Plan. The determination of the Committee on all such matters
referred to in the Plan shall be conclusive. No member of the
Committee shall be liable for any action, failure to act,
determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to
the Plan or any transaction under the Plan.
ARTICLE 4
ELIGIBILITY
Non-employee Directors, including Non-employee
Directors who are members of the Committee, shall be eligible to
participate in the Plan. Each Eligible Director shall, if required
by the Company, enter into an agreement with the Company in such
form as the Committee shall determine consistent with the
provisions of the Plan for purposes of implementing the Plan or
effecting its purposes. In the event of any inconsistency between
the provisions of the Plan and any such agreement, the provisions
of the Plan shall govern.
ARTICLE 5
SHARES SUBJECT TO THE
PLAN
Subject to adjustment as provided herein, the
maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued
pursuant to Restricted Stock Awards granted under the Plan is
165,000 shares. Shares of Common Stock previously subject to
Restricted Stock Awards hereunder which are forfeited or cancelled
or are withheld for payment of any applicable employment taxes
and/or withholding obligations may be reissued pursuant to
Restricted Stock Awards.
ARTICLE 6
GRANT OF RESTRICTED STOCK
AWARD
6.1 Awards . Following the Amendment
Effective Date, on every fifth Business Day in January each
Eligible Director shall be granted a Restricted Stock Award for the
number of shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value as of
the Date of Grant equal to $100,000.00 (the “Annual
Grant”). In addition, on the fifth Business Day following the
Amendment Effective Date, each Eligible Director who received the
2007 Annual Grant shall be granted an additional Restricted Stock
Award for the number of shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market
Value as of the Date of Grant equal to $25,000.00. If a person
first becomes an Eligible Director between the date of Annual
Grants and after the Amendment Effective Date, such Eligible
Director shall be granted a Restricted Stock Award for the number
of shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value as of the date
he or she becomes an Eligible Director equal to $100,000.00 (or, if
the date on which the person first becomes an Eligible Director is
after the 2007 Annual Grant but prior to the fifth Business Day
following the Amendment Effective Date, $75,000.00 and, on the
fifth Business Day following the Amendment Effective Date,
$25,000.00) multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the
number of days from the date such person becomes an Eligible
Director until the date of the next Annual Grant
and the
denominator of which is 365. For the purposes of the Plan, the term
“Business Day” shall mean a day on which the New York
Stock Exchange is open for business and is conducting normal
trading activity.
6.2 Forfeiture Restrictions . Shares of
Common Stock that are the subject of a Restricted Stock Award shall
be subject to restrictions on disposition by the Eligible Director
and to an obligation of the Eligible Director to forfeit and
surrender the shares to the Company under certain circumstances
(the “Forfeiture Restrictions”). The Forfeiture
Restrictions shall be determined by the Committee, in its sole
discretion, and the Committee may provide that the Forfeiture
Restrictions shall lapse on the passage of time or the occurrence
of such other event or events determined to be appropriate by the
Committee. The Forfeiture Restrictions applicable to a particular
Restricted Stock Award (which may differ from any other such
Restricted Stock Award) shall