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SEGMENT REPORTING
 6 Months Ended
Jul. 12, 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 business. 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:
Twelve Weeks EndedTwenty-Eight Weeks Ended
(in thousands)July 12,
2026		July 13,
2025		July 12,
2026		July 13,
2025
CAVA Revenue$365,433 $278,249 $799,825 $606,731 
Reconciliation of reportable segment revenue to consolidated revenue:
Other revenue3,003 2,366 6,881 5,710 
Total consolidated revenue$368,436 $280,615 $806,706 $612,441 
Significant CAVA segment expenses
Food, beverage, and packaging$109,496 $82,210 $235,914 $178,434 
Labor92,401 69,496 203,952 154,058 
Occupancy23,065 18,791 52,922 43,199 
Other operating expenses1
46,659 34,490 104,373 75,473 
Total CAVA segment expenses271,621 204,987 597,161 451,164 
CAVA Restaurant-Level Profit93,812 73,262 202,664 155,567 
Reconciliation of total reportable segment restaurant-level profit to income before income taxes:
Other non-reportable segment profit(1,770)(1,419)(4,110)(3,177)
General and administrative expenses39,800 32,051 91,390 73,445 
Depreciation and amortization20,966 16,815 46,432 37,626 
Pre-opening costs6,741 5,096 12,902 9,577 
Impairment and asset disposal costs1,229 1,074 3,947 2,741 
Interest income, net(3,293)(3,581)(7,375)(8,198)
Other income, net(439)(474)(1,139)(501)
Income before taxes$30,578 $23,700 $60,617 $44,054 
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1    Other operating expenses includes all other restaurant-level operating expenses, such as third-party delivery service fees, credit card and bank fees, repairs and maintenance, kitchen supplies, utilities, restaurant technology costs, and marketing expenses.