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      "text": "CAVA Group, Inc. is a U.S. Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant company, with a complementary consumer packaged goods business. Its restaurants serve customizable bowls and pitas, while its CAVA Foods products—including dips, spreads and dressings—are sold in restaurants and grocery stores. The company’s stated mission is “to bring heart, health, and humanity to food.” [P42000504][P44173075][P33975318][https://cava.com/ourstory]\n\nCAVA opened its first fast-casual restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2011. It reported approximately $1.169 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025 and had about 13,480 employees at year-end, including restaurant team members and manufacturing and Collaboration Center staff. The company announced its 500th restaurant in September 2026, reflecting a growing U.S. restaurant footprint. [P42000504][P68395721][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639438/000162828026011296/cava-20251228.htm][https://investor.cava.com/news/news-details/2026/CAVA-Celebrates-500th-Restaurant-Milestone/default.aspx]\n[P42000504][P44173075][P33975318][P68395721][https://cava.com/ourstory][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639438/000162828026011296/cava-20251228.htm][https://investor.cava.com/news/news-details/2026/CAVA-Celebrates-500th-Restaurant-Milestone/default.aspx]",
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      "text": "CAVA’s restaurant menu includes customizable bowls and pitas, along with sides and dips. Guests can select chef-curated meals or build their own from 38 ingredients; the company says the options allow more than 17.4 billion combinations. [P101299212] Menu examples introduced or featured in 2026 include Spicy Lamb + Sweet Potato, Harissa Chicken Power, and the Pomegranate Glazed Salmon Bowl. The latter includes glazed salmon, Crazy Feta, hummus, avocado, pickled onions, tomato and cucumber, fiery broccoli, saffron basmati rice, and Greek vinaigrette. [https://cava.com/menu] [https://cava.com/news/white-sweet-potatoes-are-back] [https://cava.com/menu/pomegranate-glazed-salmon-bowl]\n\nCAVA also sells packaged dips, spreads, hummus, and dressings through grocery retailers. Examples include Spicy Labneh, Greek Green Goddess, Yogurt Dill dressing, Greek Vinaigrette, and Lemon Herb Tahini. CAVA Foods produces restaurant dips, spreads, and some dressing bases as well as CPG products. [P155648663] [https://cava.com/grocery] [https://cava.com/grocery/cpg-spicy-labneh-8oz] [https://cava.com/grocery/greek-green-goddess-cpg] [https://cava.com/grocery/yogurt-dill-cpg] [https://cava.com/grocery/greek-vinaigrette-cpg] [https://cava.com/grocery/lemon-herb-tahini-cpg]\n\nService offerings include dine-in, digital ordering for pickup or delivery, drive-thru pickup at select restaurants, and catering in select markets. Catering includes a Group Bowl Bar designed to serve 10, with protein, bases, greens, grains, dips, toppings, dressings, and side pitas. The app supports order-ahead, meal customization, reordering, and rewards. [P39232388] [https://support.cava.com/en_us/how-can-i-view-cava-s-catering-menu-ByLi5i10] [https://cava.com/discover]\n\nThe company does not report CPG as a separate reportable segment; FY2025 “Other revenue” includes CPG sales and is not a standalone CPG revenue figure. [P44173075]\n[P101299212][P155648663][P39232388][P44173075][https://cava.com/menu][https://cava.com/news/white-sweet-potatoes-are-back][https://cava.com/menu/pomegranate-glazed-salmon-bowl][https://cava.com/grocery][https://cava.com/grocery/cpg-spicy-labneh-8oz][https://cava.com/grocery/greek-green-goddess-cpg][https://cava.com/grocery/yogurt-dill-cpg][https://cava.com/grocery/greek-vinaigrette-cpg][https://cava.com/grocery/lemon-herb-tahini-cpg][https://support.cava.com/en_us/how-can-i-view-cava-s-catering-menu-ByLi5i10][https://cava.com/discover]",
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      "text": "As of the second quarter of fiscal 2026, ended July 12, CAVA operated 476 restaurants across 29 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.; the filing does not provide restaurant counts by state. [P155648661][T17946183] The states listed in CAVA’s locations directory are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C. [https://cava.com/locations]\n\nCAVA reports that all segment revenue is earned in the United States; it does not disclose revenue by state or other U.S. region. [P155648649] Its principal executive office is in Washington, D.C. The company also identifies a production facility in Laurel, Maryland; a food distribution center in Edison, New Jersey; a restaurant collaboration center in Washington, D.C.; and support centers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York, and Plano, Texas. [T17946153][P155648608] As of December 28, 2025, CAVA reported approximately 12,900 restaurant team members and 580 employees in manufacturing and its Collaboration Center Organization, without geographic allocation. [P68395721]\n[P155648661][T17946183][P155648649][T17946153][P155648608][P68395721][https://cava.com/locations]",
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      "text": "CAVA reports two operating segments: CAVA, comprising its company-owned restaurants, and CAVA Foods, which produces dips, spreads and dressing bases for CAVA restaurants and sells consumer packaged goods (CPG). Only CAVA is a reportable segment; CAVA Foods is below the reporting threshold, and its CPG activity is included in “Other revenue” and “Other non-reportable segment profit.” [P155648648]\n\nAs an approximate measure of contribution, reported CAVA Revenue was $365.4 million, or about 99.2% of consolidated revenue, in the 12 weeks ended July 12, 2026, and $799.8 million, or about 99.1%, in the first 28 weeks of 2026. The corresponding “Other revenue” was $3.0 million (about 0.8%) and $6.9 million (about 0.9%). [T17946181][P155648653] For FY2025, CAVA Revenue was $1,169.3 million, about 99.1% of consolidated revenue, and “Other revenue” was $10.4 million, about 0.9%. These are revenue shares, not separately reported segment percentages; “Other revenue” is used as an approximate indicator of the non-reportable activity, not as a standalone CAVA Foods segment figure. [T8393830]\n[P155648648][T17946181][P155648653][T8393830]",
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      "text": "CAVA’s origins date to 2006, when co-founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Chef Dimitri Moshovitis and Ted Xenohristos opened CAVA Mezze, a full-service restaurant. In 2008, the founders began selling CAVA dips and spreads in grocery stores; in 2011, they launched the fast-casual restaurant concept. [P163764379]\n\nCAVA completed its acquisition of Zoës Kitchen on November 21, 2018, adding a restaurant base and locations for expansion. The company accelerated conversions of Zoës restaurants to CAVA in 2020 and recorded 59 net new restaurants in fiscal 2021 and 73 in fiscal 2022. [https://cava.com/news/zoes-acquisition] [P163764379] [P163765005]\n\nCAVA completed its initial public offering on June 20, 2023, after beginning NYSE trading under the ticker CAVA on June 15. [P98470029] In 2024, it opened its first Chicago restaurant, marking its entry into the Midwest. [https://investor.cava.com/news/news-details/2024/CAVA-Enters-the-Midwest-with-its-First-Chicago-Restaurant/default.aspx] In September 2026, the company announced the opening of its 500th restaurant. [https://investor.cava.com/news/news-details/2026/CAVA-Celebrates-500th-Restaurant-Milestone/default.aspx]\n[P163764379][P163765005][P98470029][https://cava.com/news/zoes-acquisition][https://investor.cava.com/news/news-details/2024/CAVA-Enters-the-Midwest-with-its-First-Chicago-Restaurant/default.aspx][https://investor.cava.com/news/news-details/2026/CAVA-Celebrates-500th-Restaurant-Milestone/default.aspx]",
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