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Creative Dining Services, Inc.401(k)

CREATIVE DINING SERVICES, INC. RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN · ZEELAND, MI · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.49%

Peer grade: D · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

Creative Dining Services, Inc. reported $83,845 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.49% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $629 per active participant. This ratio covers administrative expenses reported on the plan's Schedule H only; fund-level expense ratios are not included in public structured data — see methodology.

Across the 2 years on file its reported administrative ratio fell from 0.68% to 0.49%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other accommodation & food services employers. By assets it is the 1,093rd-largest of 2,619 plans among Michigan employers on file, and the 326th of 2,240 in accommodation & food services. In 2024, employees put in $3.02 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 818 to 953 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$18,528,920
Participants with balances671
Active participants953
Employer contributions$599,636
Employee contributions$1,812,009
Employer contribution per active participant$629
Average account balance$27,614
Benefits paid to participants$1,544,526
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorDELONG & BROWER PC
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$18.5M · 671 accts · $600K emplr
2023$15.8M · 602 accts · $456K emplr
2022$14.0M · 619 accts · $268K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$58,302
Investment management$25,543
Total administrative$83,845
The Creative Dining Services, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$629
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$629 per active participant
2023$534 per active participant
2022$328 per active participant

Creative Dining Services, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $2,416 median for plans its size, in the bottom quarter of its peers. Filings report dollars actually contributed, not the match formula; the formula itself (for example, 50% of the first 6% of pay) lives in the plan's summary plan description from HR.

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Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20242
ADP, INC. · Loan processing · Recordkeeping$58,302
RPA FINANCIAL, LLC · Recordkeeping · Trustee$25,543

Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.

Recordkeeper by year2
2024ADP, RPA FINANCIAL, LLC
2023ADP, RPA FINANCIAL, LLC

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Administrative cost history3
2024$83,845 · 0.49%
2023$75,641 · 0.51%
2022$109,497 · 0.68%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 382915451 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.