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SEGMENT REPORTING
 4 Months Ended
Apr. 19, 2026
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
SEGMENT REPORTING SEGMENT REPORTING
The Company’s operations are conducted as two operating segments: CAVA and CAVA Foods. CAVA includes the operations of all company-owned CAVA restaurants. CAVA Foods includes the production of dips, spreads, and certain dressing bases used in CAVA restaurants as well as sales from the Company’s CPG. These segments were determined on the same basis that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), who is the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), manages, evaluates, and makes key decisions regarding the business. The CODM does not manage the Company on a consolidated basis. CAVA Foods is below the quantitative thresholds for segment reporting purposes, resulting in CAVA being the Company’s one reportable segment. Other revenue and Other non-reportable segment profit include the Company’s CPG activity from CAVA Foods.
The CODM reviews segment performance and allocates resources based upon restaurant-level profit, which is defined as segment revenues less food, beverage, and packaging, labor, occupancy, and other operating expenses. Restaurant-level profit is used to measure the segment’s profitability as corporate-level expenses are excluded from such measure. The CODM uses restaurant-level profit for each segment in the annual budget to make decisions about the allocation of resources, with the monitoring of actual results to determine appropriate changes to such allocation. All segment revenue is earned in the United States, and all intersegment revenues have been eliminated. Intersegment revenues represent the sale, from CAVA Foods to CAVA, of dips, spreads, and certain dressing bases used in CAVA restaurants. Sales from external customers are derived principally from sales of food, beverage, and CPG. The Company does not rely on any major customers as sources of sales. As the CODM does not review asset information by segment, assets are reported only on a consolidated basis.
The following table presents financial information about the Company’s reportable segment and includes reconciliations of reportable segment revenue to consolidated revenue and reportable segment restaurant-level profit to income before taxes:
Sixteen Weeks Ended
(in thousands)April 19,
2026		April 20,
2025
CAVA Revenue$434,392 $328,482 
Reconciliation of reportable segment revenue to consolidated revenue:
Other revenue3,878 3,344 
Total consolidated revenue$438,270 $331,826 
Significant CAVA segment expenses
Food, beverage, and packaging$126,418 $96,224 
Labor111,551 84,562 
Occupancy29,857 24,408 
Other operating expenses1
57,714 40,983 
Total CAVA segment expenses325,540 246,177 
CAVA restaurant-level profit108,852 82,305 
Reconciliation of total reportable segment restaurant-level profit to income before income taxes:
Other non-reportable segment profit(2,340)(1,758)
General and administrative expenses51,590 41,394 
Depreciation and amortization25,466 20,811 
Pre-opening costs6,161 4,481 
Impairment and asset disposal costs2,718 1,667 
Interest income, net(4,082)(4,617)
Other income, net(700)(27)
Income before taxes$30,039 $20,354 
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1    Other operating expenses includes all other restaurant-level operating expenses,