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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 companies for inclusion in the 2024 peer group, in discussion with Pearl Meyer, the Committee considered numerous factors, including similarity of sector, total revenue over the trailing 12-month period, market capitalization, market capitalization to revenue ratio, revenue growth over a one- and three-year period, restaurant factors, including number of owned and franchised restaurants and new restaurant openings, and such other factors that it deemed appropriate.

#### Elements of Compensation
| Component                     |     | Form of Payout                                      |     | Objective                                                                                                                                                |
| Base Salary                   |     | Cash                                                |     | Provide stable element of compensation that helps attract and retain key executives                                                                      |
| Annual Incentive Awards       |     | Cash                                                |     | Incentivize achievement of short-term business objectives and reward individual contributions                                                            |
| Equity Incentive Compensation |     | Equity awards in the form of stock options and RSUs |     | Strengthen alignment between executive pay and stockholder interests by tying compensation realized to stock price appreciation, and reinforce retention |

#### Annual Base Salary
We provide each of our NEOs with a base salary for the services that the NEO performs for us. Base salary serves as the primary form of fixed compensation for our NEOs and helps attract and retain our executive talent. Base salary can also impact other compensation and benefit opportunities, including annual short-term incentives, as such opportunities are expressed as a percentage of base salary. Base salaries for our NEOs were reviewed and, except for Ms. Somers, increased, at the time of our IPO and remained unchanged during 2024.

#### Annual Incentive Awards
The CAVA Short-Term Incentive Plan for 2024 (the “CAVA Short-Term Incentive Plan”) was designed to incentivize the achievement of the Company’s short-term business objectives and reward the individual contributions of participants towards meeting these objectives. Company financial performance impacts 75% of the CAVA Short-Term Incentive Plan payout while an individual’s performance impacts 25% of the payout. For 2024, the Committee determined that Company performance should be measured by Adjusted EBITDA (67%) and Revenue (33%). “Adjusted EBITDA” is defined as net income adjusted to exclude interest income, net, benefit from income taxes, and depreciation and amortization, further adjusted to exclude equity-based compensation, other income, net, impairment and asset disposal costs, restructuring and other costs, and certain non-recurring public company costs. Revenue

#### CAVA Group