{"id":10866,"date":"2018-08-17T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2018-08-17T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:39:01","slug":"breaking-news-cava-acquire-zoes-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/breaking-news-cava-acquire-zoes-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: CAVA to Acquire Zoe\u2019s Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAVA Group <\/strong>announced today that it will acquire Mediterranean fast-casual <strong>Zoe\u2019s Kitchen <\/strong>in a $300 million deal that will take Zoe\u2019s private. The deal comes thanks to a \u201csignificant investment\u201d in CAVA by a group led by Ron Shaich, Founder and ex-CEO of <strong>Panera.<\/strong> Brett Schulman, current CAVA CEO, will head up the combined companies while Shaich will serve as Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, check out the data on the chart we did <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2018\/07\/mediterraneanmiddle-eastern-concepts-like\/\">a few weeks ago<\/a> on the Mediterranean segment.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class='tableauPlaceholder' id='viz1534516258686' style='position: relative'><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Dashboard 1 ' src='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Me&#47;MedConceptGrowth0718&#47;Dashboard1&#47;1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a><\/noscript><object class='tableauViz'  style='display:none;'><param name='host_url' value='https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F' \/><param name='embed_code_version' value='3' \/><param name='site_root' value='' \/><param name='name' value='MedConceptGrowth0718&#47;Dashboard1' \/><param name='tabs' value='no' \/><param name='toolbar' value='yes' \/><param name='static_image' value='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Me&#47;MedConceptGrowth0718&#47;Dashboard1&#47;1.png' \/><param name='animate_transition' value='yes' \/><param name='display_static_image' value='yes' \/><param name='display_spinner' value='yes' \/><param name='display_overlay' value='yes' \/><param name='display_count' value='yes' \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>                <script type='text\/javascript'>                    var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1534516258686');                    var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0];                    vizElement.style.width='700px';vizElement.style.height='527px';                    var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');                    scriptElement.src = 'https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/viz_v1.js';                    vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);                <\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAVA Group announced today that it will acquire Mediterranean fast-casual Zoe\u2019s Kitchen in a $300 million deal that will take Zoe\u2019s private. The deal comes thanks to a \u201csignificant investment\u201d in CAVA by a group led by Ron Shaich, Founder and ex-CEO of Panera. Brett Schulman, current CAVA CEO, will head up the combined companies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/08\/breaking-news-cava-acquire-zoes-kitchen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breaking News: CAVA to Acquire Zoe\u2019s Kitchen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-foodservice","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}