LEASES

6 Months Ended

Jul. 12, 2026

The Company leases all of its CAVA Restaurants, its Digital Kitchens, its production facility in Laurel, Maryland, its food distribution center in Edison, New Jersey, its restaurant collaboration center in Washington, D.C., and its support centers in Brooklyn, New York, Manhattan, New York, and Plano, Texas. The Company determines if a contract contains

a lease at inception and determines the classification of a lease, if necessary. Typically, restaurant leases have initial terms of 10 years and include five-year renewal options.

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information related to leases were as follows:


	Twelve Weeks Ended				Twenty-Eight Weeks Ended
(in thousands)	July 12, 2026		July 13, 2025		July 12, 2026		July 13, 2025
Cash paid for operating lease liabilities	$	20,237	$	16,828	$	43,747	$	32,738
Operating lease assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities	31,847		28,974		74,288		67,120
Derecognition of operating lease assets due to termination or impairment	—		—		833		302