Avoid if you want a work life balance or a sense of accomplishment
Pros
Food is decent, the benefits are good, good starting pay for team members
Cons
Cava drinks their own coolaide and expect you too. Area team leaders expect you to breathe, sleep, and dream Cava. Area team leaders and above can’t work a grill shift however they expect the gm to run the store from the grill. They have you hire too many people to start, then don’t advertise locally, when sales are low the gms are given the advise to cut hours until people quit, then want you to rehire. Corporate has no idea how an actual Cava runs however they implement policies and procedures that don’t actually work in store. There is no trust in a seasoned manager to do their job correctly. There is no pleasing upper management, there is always something wrong.
