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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September&nbsp;13, 2010<BR>
Registration No.&nbsp;333-&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;&#95;<BR><br>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B></DIV>

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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B><FONT style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">BOB EVANS FARMS, INC.</FONT></B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top">Delaware
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">31-4421866</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of <BR>
incorporation or organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">3776 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">43207</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>BOB EVANS FARMS, INC.</B><BR>
<FONT style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>2010 EQUITY AND CASH INCENTIVE PLAN</B></FONT><BR>
(Full title of the plans)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Mary L. Garceau, Esq.<BR>
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary<BR>
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.</B><BR>
3776 South High Street<BR>
<U>Columbus, Ohio 43207</U><BR>
<Font style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">(Name and address of agent for service)</Font></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><FONT style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">(614)&nbsp;491-2225</FONT><BR>
<Font style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</Font></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><I>Copy to:</I><BR>
Kevin C. O&#146;Neil<BR>
Legal Counsel, Sr. Dir. of Corporate<BR>
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.<BR>
3776 South High Street<BR>
Columbus, Ohio 43207</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a small reporting company. See the definitions of &#147;large
accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Large accelerated filer <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#254;</FONT></FONT>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><FONT style="white-space: nowrap">Accelerated filer <FONT style="font-family: Wingdings">&#111;</FONT></FONT>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></DIV>

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    <TD nowrap align="center">registered <SUP style="FONT-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center">offering price per share</TD>
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    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common stock, $.01 par value per share</DIV></TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">2,400,000</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$27.19 <SUP style="FONT-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(2)</SUP></TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$65,244,000 <SUP style="FONT-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(2)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$4,651.90</TD>
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    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common stock, $.01 par value per share <SUP style="FONT-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(3)</SUP></DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">811,031</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&#151;</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&#151;</TD>
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    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Total <SUP style="FONT-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(3)</SUP></DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">3,211,031</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 2px solid #000000; border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$4,651.90</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), this Registration
Statement also covers an indeterminate number of additional shares of common stock that may
become issuable under the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan (the &#147;2010
Plan&#148;) by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar
transaction or adjustment affecting the common stock.</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(e) and
457(h) of the Securities Act, and computed on the basis of $27.19 per
share, which is the average of the high and low per share sale prices of the Registrant&#146;s
common stock on September&nbsp;9, 2010 as quoted on the NASDAQ Stock Market.</TD>
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    <TD>Represents shares of common stock available for issuance under the Bob Evans Farms,
Inc. Amended and Restated 2006 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan as of September 13,
2010, which shares were previously registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-8
(File No. 333-141139) filed by the Registrant on March 8, 2007.  These shares of
common stock became available for issuance under the 2010 Plan as of the effective date
of such plan.  Pursuant to Rule 457(p) under the Securities Act, the registration fee with
respect to such shares has already been paid by the Registrant and is being applied and
offset against the total registration fee required hereunder.  Accordingly, no registration
fee with respect to such shares is being paid at this time.</TD>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000">PART I</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#001">PART II</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#002">SIGNATURES</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#003">INDEX TO EXHIBITS</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="l40672exv10w1.htm">EX-10.1</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART I</B></DIV>

<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</B></DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The document(s) containing the information specified in Part&nbsp;I of Form S-8 will be sent or
given to participants in the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan (the &#147;2010
Plan&#148;) as specified by Rule&nbsp;428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities
Act&#148;). Such documents are not being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&#147;Commission&#148;) either as part of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this &#147;Registration
Statement&#148;) or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424 under the Securities
Act. Such documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
pursuant to Item&nbsp;3 of Part&nbsp;II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute a
prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</DIV>

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<DIV align="Center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B></DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference</U>.</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (the &#147;Registrant&#148;) hereby incorporates into this Registration Statement
the following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission:</DIV>

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    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left"><B>&#149;</B></TD>
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    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
April&nbsp;30, 2010 (filed by the Registrant on June&nbsp;29, 2010);</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left"><B>&#149;</B></TD>
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    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
ended July&nbsp;30, 2010 (filed by the Registrant on September&nbsp;8, 2009);</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left"><B>&#149;</B></TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed by the Registrant
with the Commission on June&nbsp;2, 2010, July&nbsp;19, 2010 and on September
13, 2010;</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left"><B>&#149;</B></TD>
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    <TD>The description of the Registrant&#146;s common stock, $.01 par value per
share, contained in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the
Registrant with the Commission on September&nbsp;13, 2010, or contained in
any subsequent amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents which may be filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;),
subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated herein by reference and to be made a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Information furnished to the Commission by the
Registrant under any Current Report on Form 8-K shall not be incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed
document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such earlier statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities</U>.</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Common Stock</U></DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A description of the Registrant&#146;s common stock, $.01 par value per share, is contained in the
Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Registrant with the Commission on September&nbsp;13, 2010.</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</U>.</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On behalf of the Registrant, the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, 52 East Gay
Street, Columbus, Ohio 43216, is giving an opinion upon the validity of the shares of common stock
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">this Registration Statement. As of September&nbsp;1, 2010, members of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease
LLP, and attorneys employed thereby, together with members of their immediate families, owned an
aggregate of 7,215 shares of the Registrant&#146;s common stock held options to purchase an aggregate of
8,819 shares of the Registrant&#146;s common stock.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers</U>.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits the Registrant to include a
provision in its Certificate of Incorporation eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a
director to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty
as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (i)&nbsp;for any breach of the director&#146;s duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its
stockholders, (ii)&nbsp;for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or a knowing violation of law, (iii)&nbsp;under Section&nbsp;174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or
(iv)&nbsp;for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Article&nbsp;ELEVENTH of the Registrant&#146;s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, limits
the liability of directors to the extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Article&nbsp;ELEVENTH provides:
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">No director or former director of this Company shall be personally liable to this Company or
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided
that this provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i)&nbsp;for any
breach of the director&#146;s duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders, (ii)&nbsp;for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of the law, (iii)&nbsp;under Section&nbsp;174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which
deals with the paying of a dividend or the approving of a stock repurchase or redemption
which is illegal under Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv)&nbsp;for any transaction from
which the director derives an improper personal benefit.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Article&nbsp;IX of the Registrant&#146;s Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended, governs
indemnification by the Registrant of its directors and officers and provides as follows:
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.01. Indemnification as of Right for Directors and Officers</U>. Each director
or officer of the corporation who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party
to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative (hereinafter a &#147;proceeding&#148;), by reason of the fact that he
or she is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation
or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (hereinafter an &#147;indemnitee&#148;),
whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a
director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director,
officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the
fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law against all expense, liability and loss (including
attorneys&#146; fees, judgments, fines, taxes, penalties and amounts paid in settlement)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith;
<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that, except as provided in Section&nbsp;9.02 hereof with
respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the corporation shall indemnify
any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such
indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the board. The right
to indemnification conferred in this Section&nbsp;9.01 shall include the right to be paid by the
corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final
disposition (hereinafter an &#147;advancement of expenses&#148;); <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>,
that, if Delaware Law so requires, expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity
as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered
by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan)
shall be advanced only upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an
&#147;undertaking&#148;), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it
shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further
right to appeal (hereinafter a &#147;final adjudication&#148;) that such indemnitee is not entitled to
be indemnified for such expenses under this Section&nbsp;9.01 or otherwise.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.02. Enforcement</U>. If a claim under Section&nbsp;9.01 is not paid in full by the
corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the corporation,
except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable
period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">any time thereafter bring suit against
the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If
successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the corporation to
recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee
shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. It
shall be a defense of the corporation in any suit brought by an indemnitee to enforce a
right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit to enforce a right to an advancement
of expenses) that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in
Delaware Law, and a final adjudication that an indemnitee has not met such standard shall
entitle the corporation to recover such expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking.
Neither the failure of the corporation (including the board, independent legal counsel or
its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that
indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has
met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Delaware Law, nor an actual
determination by the corporation (including the board, independent legal counsel or its
stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall
create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or,
in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit
brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of
expenses hereunder, or by the corporation to recover an advancement of expenses, the burden
of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified in any respect, or to such
advancement of expenses, under this Article&nbsp;IX or otherwise shall be on the corporation.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.03. Discretionary Indemnification for Agents and Employees</U>. The
corporation may, to the extent approved or ratified from time to time by the board, grant
rights to indemnification, and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of
the corporation to the fullest extent contemplated by this Article&nbsp;IX with respect to the
indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the corporation.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.04. Article&nbsp;IX Exclusive</U>. The indemnification and advancement of expenses
provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other sections of this Article&nbsp;IX shall not be
deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement
of expenses may be entitled under the corporation&#146;s or any other corporation&#146;s certificate
of incorporation or by-laws, other charter documents, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors or otherwise, or under Delaware Law or any other applicable statute
or regulation, both as to action in such person&#146;s official capacity and as to action in
another capacity while holding such office.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.05. Continuation of Indemnification</U>. The indemnification and advancement
of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article&nbsp;IX shall continue as to a
person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person, except in any such case
to the extent that any grant of rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses
pursuant to Section&nbsp;9.03 otherwise provides, and shall be binding upon any successor to the
corporation to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law, as from time to time in effect.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.06. Insurance</U>. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on
behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in
any such capacity, or arising out of such person&#146;s status as such, whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the
provisions of this Article&nbsp;IX or Delaware Law.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.07. Certain Definitions</U>. For purposes of this Article, references to
&#147;other enterprises&#148; shall include employee benefit plans; references to &#147;fines&#148; shall
include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and
references to a director or officer of the corporation &#147;serving at the request of the
corporation&#148; shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director or officer with
respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries. For purposes of
determining whether a person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in
Delaware Law, a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably
believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit
plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner &#147;not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation.&#148;
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><U>Section&nbsp;9.08. Severability</U>. In the event that any provision of this Article&nbsp;IX is
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to require the corporation to do or to fail
to do an act which is in violation of applicable law, such provision shall be limited or
modified in its application to the minimum extent necessary to avoid a violation of law,
and, as so limited or modified, such provision and the balance of this Article&nbsp;IX shall be
enforceable by an indemnitee in accordance with its terms.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">Section&nbsp;145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law governs indemnification by a corporation
of its directors, officers, employees and agents and provides as follows:
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(a)&nbsp;A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action
by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request
of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including
attorneys&#146; fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person
acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person&#146;s conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or
upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption
that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect
to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person&#146;s
conduct was unlawful.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(b)&nbsp;A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or
in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact
that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is
or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent
of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against
expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in
connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good
faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of
any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to
the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in
which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or
such other court shall deem proper.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(c)&nbsp;To the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred
to in subsections (a)&nbsp;and (b)&nbsp;of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter
therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(d)&nbsp;Any indemnification under subsections (a)&nbsp;and (b)&nbsp;of this section (unless ordered by a
court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a
determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or
agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of
conduct set forth in subsections (a)&nbsp;and (b)&nbsp;of this section. Such determination shall be
made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer of the corporation at the time
of such determination, (1)&nbsp;by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such
action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2)&nbsp;by a committee of such
directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or
(3)&nbsp;if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal
counsel in a written opinion, or (4)&nbsp;by the stockholders.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(e)&nbsp;Expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees) incurred by an officer or director of the
corporation in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit
or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such
action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined
that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this
section. Such expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees) incurred by former directors and officers
or other employees and agents of the corporation or by persons serving at the request of the
corporation as directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if
any, as the corporation deems appropriate.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(f)&nbsp;The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the
other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which
those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw,
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action
in such person&#146;s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such
office. A right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses arising under a provision
of the certificate of incorporation or a bylaw shall not be eliminated or impaired by an
amendment to such provision after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject
of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding for which
indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought, unless the provision in effect at the
time of such act or omission explicitly authorizes such elimination or impairment after such
action or omission has occurred.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(g)&nbsp;A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was
serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any
liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or
arising out of such person&#146;s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the
power to indemnify such person against such liability under this section.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(h)&nbsp;For purposes of this section, references to &#147;the corporation&#148; shall include, in addition
to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a
constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had
continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and
employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this
section with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have
with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(i)&nbsp;For purposes of this section, references to &#147;other enterprises&#148; shall include employee
benefit plans; references to &#147;fines&#148; shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person
with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to &#147;serving at the request of the
corporation&#148; shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer,
employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or
beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably
believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit
plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner &#147;not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation&#148; as referred to in this section.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(j)&nbsp;The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to,
this section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a
person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">(k)&nbsp;The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine
all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought under this section or
under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.
The Court of Chancery may summarily determine a corporation&#146;s obligation to advance expenses
(including attorneys&#146; fees).
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registrant has purchased insurance coverage under a policy which insures directors and
officers against certain liabilities which might be incurred by them in such capacities. The
Registrant may also incur
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">indemnification obligations under indemnification or employment
agreements it may in the future enter into with its officers.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;7. Exemption from Registration Claimed</U>.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not applicable.
</DIV>
<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits</U>.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See the Index to Exhibits which is incorporated herein by reference.
</DIV>
<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><U>Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings</U>.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">A. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
</DIV>


<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt">
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<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="3%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(1)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:</TD>
</TR>

</TABLE>
</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt">
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<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="6%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(i)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act;</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="6%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(ii)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration
Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of
securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not
exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum
aggregate offering price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of Registration Fee&#148;
table in the effective Registration Statement; and</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="6%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(iii)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>To include any material information with respect to the plan
of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any
material change to such information in the Registration Statement;</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
<DIV style="margin-top: 0pt">
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<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
   <TD style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="3%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left"><I>&nbsp;</I></TD>
    <TD width="1%"><I>&nbsp;</I></TD>
    <TD><I>Provided however</I>, that paragraphs A(1)(i) and A(1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the
Registrant pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.</TD>
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</DIV>

<DIV style="margin-top: 6pt">
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<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="3%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(2)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="3%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(3)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">B.</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">C.</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
provisions described in Item&nbsp;6 of Part&nbsp;II of this Registration Statement, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is,
therefore,</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of
its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.
</DIV>


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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Columbus, State of Ohio, on September&nbsp;13, 2010.
</DIV>

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<TR>
    <TD width="48%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">BOB EVANS FARMS, INC.<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Mary L. Garceau
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Mary L. Garceau&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on September&nbsp;13, 2010.
</DIV>
<DIV align="center">
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    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="65%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Signature</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Title</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Steven A. Davis
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Steven A. Davis
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Executive Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Tod P. Spornhauer
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Tod P. Spornhauer
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Larry C. Corbin
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Michael J. Gasser
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Dr.&nbsp;E. Gordon Gee
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
E.W. (Bill) Ingram III
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Cheryl L. Krueger
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
G. Robert Lucas
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Eileen A. Mallesch
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Bryan G. Stockton
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px"><DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Paul S. Williams
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">*</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The above-named directors of the Registrant sign this Registration Statement by Mary L. Garceau,
their attorney-in-fact, pursuant to the Power of Attorney signed by the above-named directors,
which Power of Attorney is filed as Exhibit&nbsp;24 to this Registration Statement.</TD>
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<TR>

    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Mary L. Garceau
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Mary L. Garceau, Attorney-in-Fact&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD width="9%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="45%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="45%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Exhibit No.</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Description</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Location</TD>
</TR>

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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Bob Evans
Farms, Inc. reflecting
amendments through Aug. 10,
1993. <I>&#091;This document
represents the Company&#146;s
Certificate of Incorporation
in restated format
incorporating all
amendments. This compiled
document has not been filed
with the Delaware Secretary
of State.&#093;</I>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1
to Bob Evans Farms, Inc.&#146;s
Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K
for the fiscal year ended
April&nbsp;30, 2010, filed with
the Commission on June&nbsp;29,
2010 (File No.&nbsp;0-1667).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Amended and Restated By-Laws
of Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (As
amended November&nbsp;19, 2008).
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1
to Bob Evans Farms, Inc.&#146;s
Current Report on Form&nbsp;8-K
filed with the Commission
on November&nbsp;24, 2008 (File
No.&nbsp;0-1667).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">10.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010
Equity and Cash Incentive
Plan
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">10.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010
Equity and Cash Incentive <br>
Plan &#151; Form of Whole Share
Award Agreement (Directors)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">10.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010
Equity and Cash Incentive <br>
Plan &#151; Form of Restricted
Stock Award Agreement
(Directors)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Legal Opinion of Vorys,
Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Ernst &#038; Young LLP
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom"><!-- Blank Space -->
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Vorys, Sater,
Seymour and Pease LLP
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Contained within Exhibit&nbsp;5</TD>
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Table of Contents
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 13, 2010
Registration No. 333-__________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
BOB EVANS FARMS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
31-4421866
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
3776 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio
43207
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
BOB EVANS FARMS, INC.
2010 EQUITY AND CASH INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plans)
Mary L. Garceau, Esq.
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
3776 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43207
(Name and address of agent for service)
(614) 491-2225
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
Kevin C. O'Neil
Legal Counsel, Sr. Dir. of Corporate
Bob Evans Farms, Inc.
3776 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43207
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated
filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a small reporting company. See the definitions of "large
accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the
Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
þ
Accelerated filer
o
Non-accelerated filer
o
Smaller reporting company
o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Tile of securities
Amount to be
Proposed maximum
Proposed maximum
Amount of
to be registered
registered
(1)
offering price per share
aggregate offering price
registration fee
Common stock, $.01 par value per share
2,400,000
$27.19
(2)
$65,244,000
(2)
$4,651.90
Common stock, $.01 par value per share
(3)
811,031
—
—
—
Total
(3)
3,211,031
$4,651.90
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration
Statement also covers an indeterminate number of additional shares of common stock that may
become issuable under the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan (the "2010
Plan") by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar
transaction or adjustment affecting the common stock.
(2)
Estimated for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(e) and
457(h) of the Securities Act, and computed on the basis of $27.19 per
share, which is the average of the high and low per share sale prices of the Registrant's
common stock on September 9, 2010 as quoted on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
(3)
Represents shares of common stock available for issuance under the Bob Evans Farms,
Inc. Amended and Restated 2006 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan as of September 13,
2010, which shares were previously registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-8
(File No. 333-141139) filed by the Registrant on March 8, 2007.  These shares of
common stock became available for issuance under the 2010 Plan as of the effective date
of such plan.  Pursuant to Rule 457(p) under the Securities Act, the registration fee with
respect to such shares has already been paid by the Registrant and is being applied and
offset against the total registration fee required hereunder.  Accordingly, no registration
fee with respect to such shares is being paid at this time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I
PART II
SIGNATURES
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EX-5
EX-10.1
EX-10.2
EX-10.3
EX-23.1
EX-24
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be sent or
given to participants in the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010 Equity and Cash Incentive Plan (the "2010
Plan") as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"). Such documents are not being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") either as part of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this "Registration
Statement") or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities
Act. Such documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute a
prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
.
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (the "Registrant") hereby incorporates into this Registration Statement
the following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission:
•
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
April 30, 2010 (filed by the Registrant on June 29, 2010);
•
The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter
ended July 30, 2010 (filed by the Registrant on September 8, 2009);
•
The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed by the Registrant
with the Commission on June 2, 2010, July 19, 2010 and on September
13, 2010;
•
The description of the Registrant's common stock, $.01 par value per
share, contained in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the
Registrant with the Commission on September 13, 2010, or contained in
any subsequent amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.
All documents which may be filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"),
subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated herein by reference and to be made a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Information furnished to the Commission by the
Registrant under any Current Report on Form 8-K shall not be incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement.
Any statement contained in this Registration Statement or in a document incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed
document which also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such earlier statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities
.
Common Stock
A description of the Registrant's common stock, $.01 par value per share, is contained in the
Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Registrant with the Commission on September 13, 2010.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
.
On behalf of the Registrant, the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, 52 East Gay
Street, Columbus, Ohio 43216, is giving an opinion upon the validity of the shares of common stock
being registered on
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this Registration Statement. As of September 1, 2010, members of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease
LLP, and attorneys employed thereby, together with members of their immediate families, owned an
aggregate of 7,215 shares of the Registrant's common stock held options to purchase an aggregate of
8,819 shares of the Registrant's common stock.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
.
Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits the Registrant to include a
provision in its Certificate of Incorporation eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a
director to the Registrant or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty
as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or
(iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
Article ELEVENTH of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, limits
the liability of directors to the extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Article ELEVENTH provides:
No director or former director of this Company shall be personally liable to this Company or
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided
that this provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any
breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders, (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of the law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which
deals with the paying of a dividend or the approving of a stock repurchase or redemption
which is illegal under Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from
which the director derives an improper personal benefit.
Article IX of the Registrant's Amended and Restated By-Laws, as amended, governs
indemnification by the Registrant of its directors and officers and provides as follows:
Section 9.01. Indemnification as of Right for Directors and Officers
. Each director
or officer of the corporation who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party
to or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he
or she is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation
or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (hereinafter an "indemnitee"),
whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a
director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director,
officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the
fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law against all expense, liability and loss (including
attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, taxes, penalties and amounts paid in settlement)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith;
provided
,
however
, that, except as provided in Section 9.02 hereof with
respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the corporation shall indemnify
any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such
indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the board. The right
to indemnification conferred in this Section 9.01 shall include the right to be paid by the
corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final
disposition (hereinafter an "advancement of expenses");
provided
,
however
,
that, if Delaware Law so requires, expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity
as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered
by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan)
shall be advanced only upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an
"undertaking"), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it
shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further
right to appeal (hereinafter a "final adjudication") that such indemnitee is not entitled to
be indemnified for such expenses under this Section 9.01 or otherwise.
Section 9.02. Enforcement
. If a claim under Section 9.01 is not paid in full by the
corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the corporation,
except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable
period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at
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any time thereafter bring suit against
the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If
successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the corporation to
recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee
shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. It
shall be a defense of the corporation in any suit brought by an indemnitee to enforce a
right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit to enforce a right to an advancement
of expenses) that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in
Delaware Law, and a final adjudication that an indemnitee has not met such standard shall
entitle the corporation to recover such expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking.
Neither the failure of the corporation (including the board, independent legal counsel or
its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that
indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because the indemnitee has
met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Delaware Law, nor an actual
determination by the corporation (including the board, independent legal counsel or its
stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall
create a presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct or,
in the case of such a suit brought by the indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit
brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of
expenses hereunder, or by the corporation to recover an advancement of expenses, the burden
of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified in any respect, or to such
advancement of expenses, under this Article IX or otherwise shall be on the corporation.
Section 9.03. Discretionary Indemnification for Agents and Employees
. The
corporation may, to the extent approved or ratified from time to time by the board, grant
rights to indemnification, and to the advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of
the corporation to the fullest extent contemplated by this Article IX with respect to the
indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors and officers of the corporation.
Section 9.04. Article IX Exclusive
. The indemnification and advancement of expenses
provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other sections of this Article IX shall not be
deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement
of expenses may be entitled under the corporation's or any other corporation's certificate
of incorporation or by-laws, other charter documents, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors or otherwise, or under Delaware Law or any other applicable statute
or regulation, both as to action in such person's official capacity and as to action in
another capacity while holding such office.
Section 9.05. Continuation of Indemnification
. The indemnification and advancement
of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article IX shall continue as to a
person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person, except in any such case
to the extent that any grant of rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses
pursuant to Section 9.03 otherwise provides, and shall be binding upon any successor to the
corporation to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware Law, as from time to time in effect.
Section 9.06. Insurance
. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on
behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in
any such capacity, or arising out of such person's status as such, whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the
provisions of this Article IX or Delaware Law.
Section 9.07. Certain Definitions
. For purposes of this Article, references to
"other enterprises" shall include employee benefit plans; references to "fines" shall
include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and
references to a director or officer of the corporation "serving at the request of the
corporation" shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director or officer with
respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries. For purposes of
determining whether a person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in
Delaware Law, a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably
believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit
plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation."
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Section 9.08. Severability
. In the event that any provision of this Article IX is
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to require the corporation to do or to fail
to do an act which is in violation of applicable law, such provision shall be limited or
modified in its application to the minimum extent necessary to avoid a violation of law,
and, as so limited or modified, such provision and the balance of this Article IX shall be
enforceable by an indemnitee in accordance with its terms.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law governs indemnification by a corporation
of its directors, officers, employees and agents and provides as follows:
(a) A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action
by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request
of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including
attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person
acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person's conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or
upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption
that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect
to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person's
conduct was unlawful.
(b) A corporation shall have power to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or
in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact
that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is
or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent
of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against
expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in
connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good
faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of
any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to
the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in
which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the
adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or
such other court shall deem proper.
(c) To the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred
to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter
therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.
(d) Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section (unless ordered by a
court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a
determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or
agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of
conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section. Such determination shall be
made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer of the corporation at the time
of such determination, (1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such
action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) by a committee of such
directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or
(3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal
counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the stockholders.
(e) Expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by an officer or director of the
corporation in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit
or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such
action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or
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on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined
that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this
section. Such expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by former directors and officers
or other employees and agents of the corporation or by persons serving at the request of the
corporation as directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if
any, as the corporation deems appropriate.
(f) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the
other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which
those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw,
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action
in such person's official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such
office. A right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses arising under a provision
of the certificate of incorporation or a bylaw shall not be eliminated or impaired by an
amendment to such provision after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject
of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding for which
indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought, unless the provision in effect at the
time of such act or omission explicitly authorizes such elimination or impairment after such
action or omission has occurred.
(g) A corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was
serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any
liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or
arising out of such person's status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the
power to indemnify such person against such liability under this section.
(h) For purposes of this section, references to "the corporation" shall include, in addition
to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a
constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had
continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and
employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this
section with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have
with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.
(i) For purposes of this section, references to "other enterprises" shall include employee
benefit plans; references to "fines" shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person
with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to "serving at the request of the
corporation" shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer,
employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or
beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably
believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit
plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation" as referred to in this section.
(j) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to,
this section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a
person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
(k) The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine
all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought under this section or
under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise.
The Court of Chancery may summarily determine a corporation's obligation to advance expenses
(including attorneys' fees).
The Registrant has purchased insurance coverage under a policy which insures directors and
officers against certain liabilities which might be incurred by them in such capacities. The
Registrant may also incur
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indemnification obligations under indemnification or employment
agreements it may in the future enter into with its officers.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits
.
See the Index to Exhibits which is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9. Undertakings
.
A. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i)
To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act;
(ii)
To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration
Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of
securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not
exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus
filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum
aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee"
table in the effective Registration Statement; and
(iii)
To include any material information with respect to the plan
of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any
material change to such information in the Registration Statement;
Provided however
, that paragraphs A(1)(i) and A(1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the
Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
(2)
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3)
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
B.
The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
C.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
provisions described in Item 6 of Part II of this Registration Statement, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is,
therefore,
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unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of
its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.
[Signature page to immediately follow.]
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Columbus, State of Ohio, on September 13, 2010.
BOB EVANS FARMS, INC.
By:
/s/ Mary L. Garceau
Mary L. Garceau
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on September 13, 2010.
Signature
Title
/s/ Steven A. Davis
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Steven A. Davis
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Tod P. Spornhauer
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary
Tod P. Spornhauer
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
*
Director
Larry C. Corbin
*
Director
Michael J. Gasser
*
Director
Dr. E. Gordon Gee
*
Director
E.W. (Bill) Ingram III
*
Director
Cheryl L. Krueger
*
Director
G. Robert Lucas
*
Director
Eileen A. Mallesch
*
Director
Bryan G. Stockton
*
Director
Paul S. Williams
*
The above-named directors of the Registrant sign this Registration Statement by Mary L. Garceau,
their attorney-in-fact, pursuant to the Power of Attorney signed by the above-named directors,
which Power of Attorney is filed as Exhibit 24 to this Registration Statement.
By:
/s/ Mary L. Garceau
Mary L. Garceau, Attorney-in-Fact
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
Description
Location
4.1
Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Bob Evans
Farms, Inc. reflecting
amendments through Aug. 10,
1993.
[This document
represents the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation
in restated format
incorporating all
amendments. This compiled
document has not been filed
with the Delaware Secretary
of State.]
Incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 3.1
to Bob Evans Farms, Inc.'s
Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended
April 30, 2010, filed with
the Commission on June 29,
2010 (File No. 0-1667).
4.2
Amended and Restated By-Laws
of Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (As
amended November 19, 2008).
Incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 3.1
to Bob Evans Farms, Inc.'s
Current Report on Form 8-K
filed with the Commission
on November 24, 2008 (File
No. 0-1667).
10.1
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010
Equity and Cash Incentive
Plan
Filed herewith
10.2
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010
Equity and Cash Incentive
Plan — Form of Whole Share
Award Agreement (Directors)
Filed herewith
10.3
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. 2010
Equity and Cash Incentive
Plan — Form of Restricted
Stock Award Agreement
(Directors)
Filed herewith
5
Legal Opinion of Vorys,
Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Filed herewith
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
Filed herewith
23.2
Consent of Vorys, Sater,
Seymour and Pease LLP
Contained within Exhibit 5
24
Power of Attorney
Filed herewith
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