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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 our executive severance plan. These severance protections, as well as the severance protection that Messrs. Schulman and Xenohristos and Ms. Costanza are entitled to under their respective employment agreements, are described in more detail below under “Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control.”

#### Other Benefits and Perquisites
We provide our NEOs with limited perquisites, which generally consist of an executive discount for the cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage; executive physicals; and a cybersecurity/identification protection program benefit. The amounts attributable to these perquisites are included in the Summary Compensation Table below as “All Other Compensation” and detailed in footnote 4 to that table.

In addition, our NEOs participate in our tax-qualified 401(k) plan, a broad-based, defined contribution retirement plan in which all of our employees who meet certain age and service requirements are eligible to participate. We make a matching contribution equal to 25% of each employee’s deferrals under the plan, up to 3% of an employee’s eligible compensation. The annual value of the contributions to our retirement plan for 2024 for each NEO is reflected in the “All Other Compensation” column of the Summary Compensation Table below. We do not maintain a defined benefit pension plan or supplemental executive retirement plan.

#### Director and Executive Stock Ownership Guidelines
We have Director and Executive Stock Ownership Guidelines (the “SO Guidelines”), which provide the recommended guidelines for stock ownership for the Company’s directors and executives, as follows:

| Covered Person          |     | Guideline Level                     |
| Chief Executive Officer |     | Five (5) times annual base salary   |
| Other Executives        |     | One (1) times annual base salary    |
| Non-Employee Directors  |     | Five (5) times annual cash retainer |

For purposes of meeting the SO Guidelines, the SO Guidelines define stock ownership to include:

• shares owned directly by a Covered Person (including through open market purchase or acquired and held upon vesting of Company restricted stock, restricted stock unit and shares held and received upon exercise of stock option awards);

• shares owned jointly with or separately by the Covered Person’s spouse;

• shares held in trust for the benefit of the Covered Person or one or more family members of the Covered Person;

• vested and unvested time-vesting restricted stock awards or their equivalent under any broad-based equity compensation plan or program implemented by the Company;

#### CAVA Group, Inc.292025 Proxy Statement
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