Growth
CAVA against its category
The biggest tracked US restaurants chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks CAVA's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
C
Chipotle Mexican Grill
|
-4.3% |
| 2 |
T
Texas Roadhouse
|
+2.6% |
| 3 |
O
Olive Garden
|
+1.1% |
| 4 |
C
Chili's Grill & Bar
|
- |
| 5 |
A
Applebee's Grill + Bar
|
-6.2% |
| 6 |
L
LongHorn Steakhouse
|
+5.8% |
| 7 |
O
Outback Steakhouse
|
+0.1% |
| 8 |
C
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
|
-1.5% |
| 9 |
T
The Cheesecake Factory
|
+0.3% |
| 10 |
B
BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
|
+0.5% |
| 17 |
C
CAVA
|
+13.6% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
290 tracked CAVA locations across 27 US states and DC.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 36
- Virginia 30
- California 28
- Florida 22
- Maryland 21
- North Carolina 17
- Georgia 16
- New York 16
- New Jersey 12
- Massachusetts 11
- Tennessee 11
- Pennsylvania 10
- South Carolina 9
- Colorado 8
- Alabama 7
- Oklahoma 6
- Arizona 5
- Illinois 5
- Indiana 3
- Louisiana 3
- Arkansas 2
- Connecticut 2
- District of Columbia 2
- Kansas 2
- Michigan 2
- Rhode Island 2
- Delaware 1
- Missouri 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at CAVA
Tracked chains CAVA customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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