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LEASES

9 Months Ended

Oct. 05, 2025

Leases [Abstract]

LEASES

LEASES

The Company leases all of its CAVA Restaurants, its digital kitchens, its production facility in Laurel, Maryland, its collaboration center in Washington, D.C., its support centers in Brooklyn, New York and Plano, Texas, and its food distribution center in Edison, New Jersey. The Company determines if a contract contains a lease at inception and

determines the classification of a lease, if necessary. Typically, restaurant leases have initial terms of 10 years and include five-year renewal options.

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information related to leases were as follows:

			Twelve Weeks Ended												Forty Weeks Ended
(in thousands)			October 5, 2025						October 6, 2024						October 5, 2025						October 6, 2024
Cash paid for operating lease liabilities			$	17,465					$	14,580					$	50,203					$	42,990
Operating lease assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities			17,272						17,297						84,392						50,694
Derecognition of operating lease assets due to termination or impairment			89						—						391						109

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The entire disclosure for operating leases of lessee. Includes, but is not limited to, description of operating lease and maturity analysis of operating lease liability.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/842-20/tableOfContent

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