Company: CAVA
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-007882
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Company: CAVA GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 leadership, service mindset, and people development. We have a Team Member resource group, Allies in Motion (AIM), which encourages our Team Members to celebrate and learn about underrepresented groups to build a better world for our guests, other Team Members, and community. In addition, on average, we rank in the top quintile within the diversity and inclusion category, based on our Team Members’ responses to our 2024 Team Member engagement survey. 

Real Estate

Our market evaluation and site selection process is data-driven and includes reviewing characteristics such as geography, presence of peer brands, demographic and psychographic data, urban/suburban balance, foot- and vehicle-traffic, retail and daily needs, employment and daytime activity, adjacent retailers, and volume potential.  

Our restaurant designs are flexible and adaptable to fit any site, which allows us to enhance and tailor our format to our guests’ preferences, including their preferred channels. Each CAVA Restaurant includes walk-the-line ordering and digital pick-up capabilities, as well as a separate digital make line to maximize throughput. Many of our 2025 restaurant openings in new markets will incorporate elements of our new Project Soul design, which, in addition to convenience, expresses our Mediterranean hospitality and taps into guests’ desire for human connection, including softer seating, more greenery and a warmer brand pallet. Our restaurants generally range from 2,000 to 3,000 square feet in size and seat approximately 30 to 60 guests indoors. As of December 29, 2024, we offered drive-thru pick-up at 53 locations.  In select markets, we operate CAVA digital kitchens to serve as centralized production hubs and are currently piloting CAVA hybrid kitchens where we believe there is strong demand for our catering services.  

Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Distribution

Our Sourcing and Supply Chain

We have invested in vertically-integrated manufacturing capabilities and built a differentiated directly-sourced supply chain with more than 50 trusted grower, rancher, and producer partners. We conduct certain site visits to maintain our strong relationships and seek to ensure that our partners adhere to our high-quality standards. To secure any potential sourcing needs well in advance of our growth, we continually evaluate the strength and diversity of our supply chain.

Manufacturing and Distribution

We operate a 30,000-square-foot production facility in Laurel, Maryland, a state-of-the-art 55,000-square-foot production facility in Verona, Virginia, and a 4,000-square-foot distribution facility in Edison, New Jersey, which we