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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ain Outlet Holdings from April 2014 to September 2021. Mr. Bertram was a practicing corporate attorney at McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC from June 2010 to April 2014, and was a corporate and securities industry regulatory attorney at the firm of Stevens & Lee from March 2001 to June 2010. Mr. Bertram has routinely mentored students through the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University. Mr. Bertram received his B.A. in Economics from Penn State University and his J.D. from Penn State Dickinson Law School. |
| Robert Bertram |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |

#### CAVA Group, Inc.222025 Proxy Statement

### Compensation Discussion and Analysis
This compensation discussion and analysis section is intended to provide information about our 2024 executive compensation objectives and programs for our named executive officers listed in the table below (“NEOs”), as well as to provide context for the information included in the tables that follow this discussion. For 2024, our NEOs were:

| Executive             |     | Position                              |
| Brett Schulman        |     | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Tricia Tolivar        |     | Chief Financial Officer               |
| Jennifer Somers       |     | Chief Operations Officer              |
| Theodoros Xenohristos |     | Chief Concept Officer                 |
| Kelly Costanza        |     | Chief People Officer                  |

The People, Culture and Compensation Committee of our Board of Directors (the “Committee”) determines, or recommends to our Board of Directors for approval, the compensation of all of our executive officers, including our NEOs.

### 2024 Financial Highlights
2024 was another year of extraordinary growth and success for CAVA as we established Mediterranean as the next major cultural cuisine category. CAVA Same Restaurant Sales grew 13.4% in 2024, including traffic growth of 8.7%. We opened 58 net new restaurants and generated average unit volume (“AUV”) of $2.9 million.

| $954.3 million                      |     | 13.4%                                   |     | $2.9 million                      |
| CAVA revenue, a 35.1% increase      
 over prior year(1)                  |     | Same Restaurant Sales Growth, including 
 8.7% guest traffic growth               |     | AUV for fiscal 2024               |
| 25.0%                               |     | $50.2 million                           |     |