Cava's 1,000-Store Math: AUVs Above $3M and the Unit-Economic Case for a Path No One's Walked

Cava's Q2 print is a tone reset: 2.1% comp reads slow against its own history but exceptional against the category. The number that matters is the 2025 class — AUVs north of $3M — because that is the only math that makes 1,000 stores by 2032 a sentence you can say with a straight face.