---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-042935"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CAVA"
cik: "0001639438"
company_name: "CAVA GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:34:08.091531+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CAVA Group COO Jennifer Somers departs; interim head named

## Summary
- Jennifer Somers, COO, departed effective September 23, 2025; severance per Executive Severance Plan.
- Company initiated search for successor; Jonathan Braatvedt (SVP of Operations) named Interim Head of Operations.
- Departure treated as Covered Termination without Cause under the Executive Severance Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-042935
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CAVA
- cik: 0001639438
- company_name: CAVA GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639438/000162828025042935/0001628280-25-042935-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639438/000162828025042935/cava-20250923.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-042935.txt

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