CAVA, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 65Ted Xenohristos 6Scott Svenson 1Bill Creelman 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where CAVA comes up
Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 24:40 Guy Raz Kava joins me to give advice to the founder of a studio for pet photography. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:15 Guy Raz I, I have, I have some thoughts on that, and, and I would start by saying being a control freak is very common for creative entrepreneurs, and, and what I think a lesson to take from, from the Kava story is those guys found Brett, and they… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:42 Guy Raz Hey, thanks so much for listening to this special mashup edition of the Advice Line this week, and a special thanks to Fawn Weaver of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, Andrew Abraham of Orgain, and of course, Brett Schulman of Kava.
Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza
- ▶ 13:18 Guy Raz Washington, D.C., home of Cava, Sweetgreen.
- ▶ 27:18 Scott Svenson Sometimes people are in the high teens, best in class brands, Chipotle and Cava and, and others are
Advice Line with Jeff Raider of Harry's
Advice Line with Brett Schulman of CAVA
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz My guest today is Brett Schulman, the co-founder of Kaba, a chain of fast, casual restaurants that serve a Mediterranean menu inspired by his co-founder's Greek upbringing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Guy Raz Welcome back to the advice line on how I built this lab and taking calls with me today is Kava co-founder and CEO Brett Schulman.
- ▶ 31:10 Guy Raz My guest today is Brett Schulman, co-founder and CEO of the fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant chain, Kava. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:28 Guy Raz And by the way, if you haven't heard, uh, Brett's episode, the story of Kava and how they turned it into this incredible chain, um, go back and check it out. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
- ▶ 1:41 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how three childhood friends who grew up on Greek food launched a restaurant and found just the right guy to help them grow it from a struggling sit-down into a sprawling national chain, Kava. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Guy Raz Uh, kava, meza. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:13 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Kaba starts hitting its stride with the help of a new partner who sees the marketability of the Mediterranean diet.
- ▶ 29:57 Guy Raz So it's around 2008, and even though Kava Meze is popular, the restaurant is losing money.
- ▶ 33:33 Guy Raz While Ted and Dimitri and Ike were building up Kava, uh, you were working at your wife's business, which was a sort of a startup that she, she had called Snickety Snacks, a small, like, snack food business, um, which I guess eventually got… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:02 Guy Raz The idea was, let's open a fast casual version of Cava, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:09 Ted Xenohristos Kind of getting into the kitchen with Dimitri and working on bowl ideas and calling Brett up and be like, hey, come up to Cava Emeze at the time, our original restaurant, and we kind of put these bowls in front of them, and it was the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:02 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, why expanding to LA feels like starting the business all over again, and why the Cava founders decide to buy another restaurant chain that's three times bigger, but failing.
- ▶ 55:43 Guy Raz So it's 2015, and Ted and Brett are planning to expand Cava to LA, 3000 miles from home base. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:45 Guy Raz A little bit, right, Takava? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:36 Guy Raz I want to, I want to kind of digress for a moment and ask you about some of the sort of broader challenges related to, not to Cava, but just overall to the food business, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:59 Guy Raz So where do you see the future of, of Kava? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:21 Guy Raz By the way, their other co-founders, Ike and Dimitri, are still with the business today, and that original Cava Meza restaurant, the very first one that they opened in 2006, it's still right where it started, an outdoor shopping mall in…
Spindrift: Bill Creelman
- ▶ 38:06 Bill Creelman We needed a place to tell our story, really, so we went where people were excited about our brand, and it happened to be these small, independent, for the most part, sandwich shops and salad shops, and this was the time of Sweetgreen, and,…