{"id":5859,"date":"2026-08-12T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/12\/cava-sales-climb-as-diners-opt-for-grain-bowls-over-lettuce-amid-industry-food-scares\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:24:07","slug":"cava-sales-climb-as-diners-opt-for-grain-bowls-over-lettuce-amid-industry-food-scares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/12\/cava-sales-climb-as-diners-opt-for-grain-bowls-over-lettuce-amid-industry-food-scares\/","title":{"rendered":"Cava Sales Climb as Diners Opt for Grain Bowls Over Lettuce Amid Industry Food Scares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a summer of food-safety scares impacting the broader restaurant industry, fast-casual chain Cava has reported strong sales growth. Customers are adapting by choosing grain bowls and pitas over lettuce, indicating a shift in dining preferences.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Brett Schulman noted this trend and also credited the success to popular premium protein options, helping the company maintain its upward sales trajectory.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/cavas-sales-surge-as-diners-swap-lettuce-for-grain-bowls-and-pitas-amid-food-safety-scare-87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM MARKETWATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a summer of food-safety scares impacting the broader restaurant industry, fast-casual chain Cava has reported strong sales growth. Customers are adapting by choosing grain bowls and pitas over lettuce, indicating a shift in dining preferences. CEO Brett Schulman noted this trend and also credited the success to popular premium protein options, helping the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-72726916?width=1260&height=887","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-travel","rifnote_executive-brett-schulman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-72726916?width=1260&height=887","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}