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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’s securities on margin, borrowing against any account in which the Company’s securities are held, or pledging the Company’s securities as collateral for a loan, without first obtaining pre-clearance from the Chief Legal Officer. The Chief Legal Officer is under no obligation to approve any request for pre-clearance and may determine not to permit the arrangement for any reason. Approvals will be based on the particular facts and circumstances of the request, including, but not limited to, the percentage amount that the securities being pledged represent of the total number of our securities held by the person making the request and the financial capacity of the person making the request.

#### Policies on Clawback and Recovery of Compensation
The Company maintains an Incentive Compensation Clawback Policy that meets the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, SEC rules, and applicable listing standards. Our clawback policy provides for the recovery of erroneously-awarded incentive compensation received by a current or former executive officer in the event we are required to prepare an accounting restatement due to the material noncompliance with any financial reporting requirement under applicable securities laws. The policy applies to erroneously-awarded incentive compensation whether or not the executive officer is individually “at fault.” Each of our executive officers has expressly agreed to the terms of our Dodd-Frank clawback policy.

#### CAVA Group, Inc.302025 Proxy Statement

#### Compensation Risk Management
Our Committee has reviewed our compensation policies and practices and does not believe that these policies and practices create risks that are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on us.

#### Equity Grant Practices
The Committee does not schedule equity award grant datesin anticipation of the release of material non-public information, and the Company does not have any plans, programs, or practicesof timingthe release of material non-public information in order to affect the value of executive compensation.The exercise price of stock options is set at the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the NYSE on the date of the grant.

#### Tax Treatment
The Committee believes that stockholders’ interests are best served if the Committee retains the discretion to approve compensation arrangements that support our corporate objectives, even if an arrangement does not qualify for full or partial tax deductibility under the U.S. tax rules.

#### CAVA Group, Inc.312025 Proxy Statement
Compensation Committee Report

We have reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis with management. Based on these reviews and discussions, we recommended to the Board of Directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in this proxy