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SEGMENT REPORTING
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 29, 2024
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
SEGMENT REPORTING SEGMENT REPORTING
The Company’s operations are conducted as three operating segments: CAVA, Zoes Kitchen, and CAVA Foods. These segments were determined on the same basis that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), who is the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), manages, evaluates, and makes key decisions regarding the business. Between 2019 and 2023, the Company completed a strategy of converting Zoes Kitchen restaurants into CAVA restaurants, with the last conversion restaurant opening on October 20, 2023, resulting in a total of 153 conversion restaurants. As of March 2, 2023, the Company no longer operates any Zoes Kitchen locations. CAVA Foods is below quantitative thresholds for segment reporting purposes, resulting in CAVA and Zoes Kitchen being the Company’s two reportable segments for the periods covered by the consolidated financial statements.
The CODM reviews segment performance and allocates resources based upon restaurant-level profit, which is defined as segment revenues less food, beverage, and packaging, labor, occupancy, and other operating expenses. Restaurant-level profit is used to measure the segment’s profitability as corporate-level expenses are excluded from such measure. The CODM uses restaurant-level profit for each segment in the annual budget to make decisions about the allocation of resources, with the monitoring of actual results to determine appropriate changes to such allocation. All segment revenue is earned in the United States, and all intersegment revenues have been eliminated. Intersegment revenues represent the sale, from CAVA Foods to CAVA, of dips and spreads used in our restaurants. Sales from external customers are derived principally from sales of food, beverage, and CPG. The Company does not rely on any major customers as sources of sales. As the CODM does not review asset information by segment, assets are reported only on a consolidated basis. Other includes the Company’s CPG sales from CAVA Foods.
The following table presents financial information about the Company’s reportable segments and includes reconciliations of reportable segment revenue to consolidated revenue and reportable segment restaurant-level profit to income (loss) before taxes for the fiscal years indicated:
(in thousands)202420232022
Reportable segment revenue
CAVA$954,273 $717,060 $448,594 
Zoes Kitchen— 3,867 108,392 
Total reportable segment revenue954,273 720,927 556,986 
Reconciliation of reportable segment revenue to consolidated revenue:
Other revenue9,440 7,773 7,133 
Total consolidated revenue963,713 728,700 564,119 
Significant segment expenses
CAVA
Food, beverage, and packaging279,741 208,237 140,760 
Labor247,490 185,820 121,318 
Occupancy69,851 57,811 40,855 
Other operating expenses119,078 87,704 54,568 
Total CAVA segment expenses716,160 539,572 357,501 
Zoes Kitchen
Food, beverage, and packaging— 1,141 33,367 
Labor— 1,506 36,573 
Occupancy— 508 12,814 
Other operating expenses— 889 19,538 
Total Zoes Kitchen segment expenses— 4,044 102,292 
Reportable segment restaurant-level profit (loss)
CAVA238,113 177,488 91,093 
Zoes Kitchen— (177)6,100 
Total reportable segment restaurant-level profit238,113 177,311 97,193 
Reconciliation of total reportable segment restaurant-level profit to income (loss) before income taxes:
Other non-reportable segment profit(3,692)(3,035)(791)
General and administrative expenses120,500 101,491 70,037 
Depreciation and amortization60,355 47,433 42,724 
Restructuring and other costs580 6,080 5,923 
Pre-opening costs12,197 15,718 19,313 
Impairment and asset disposal costs5,055 4,899 19,753 
Interest (income) expense, net(16,474)(8,852)47 
Other income, net(318)(471)(919)
Income (loss) before taxes$59,910 $14,048 $(58,894)