Company: CAVA
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-019936
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Company: CAVA GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 Statement and accompanying proxy card are first being distributed or made available to stockholders, as the case may be, on or about April 25, 2025. Only CAVA stockholders of record at the close of business on April 21, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements of the Annual Meeting. Whether or not you attend the Annual Meeting, your vote is important to us. To ensure that you will be represented, we ask you to vote by telephone, mail, or over the Internet as soon as possible.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and our leadership team, I would like to express our appreciation for your continued support and interest in CAVA.

Sincerely,

#### Brett Schulman

#### Co-Founder & CEO
| CAVA Group, Inc.              
 14 Ridge Square NW, Suite 500 
 Washington, D.C. 20016        |

| Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders                                                                                                                            
 Date:                                                                                                                                                               
 Friday, June 20, 2025                                                                                                                                               
 Time:                                                                                                                                                               
 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time                                                                                                                                    
 Place:                                                                                                                                                              
 Virtually at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/CAVA2025                                                                                                             |     |                                                                                                                                                        |     | To Our Stockholders                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 The principal business of the Annual Meeting will be to:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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|                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Elect the three Class II directors named in this Proxy Statement to serve for a three-year term;                                                       |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers;                                                                       |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Approve, on an advisory basis, the frequency of future advisory votes to approve the compensation of our named executive officers;                     |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|                                                                                                                                                                     |     | Ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 28, 2025; and |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
|                                                                                                                                                                     |     | To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournments or postponements of