{"id":428081,"date":"2026-08-09T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428081\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:28:19","slug":"cava-bay-area-craze-mediterranean-chain-to-open-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428081\/","title":{"rendered":"CAVA Bay Area: craze: Mediterranean chain to open in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

(KRON<\/a>) \u2014 The wait is finally over for Bay Area CAVA fans. <\/p>\n

After years of speculation and customer requests, the popular Mediterranean fast-casual chain has confirmed it\u2019s expanding to Northern California. <\/p>\n

CAVA confirmed to KRON4 that its first Bay Area restaurant will open next year at Santana Row in San Jose, with two additional locations planned closer to San Francisco. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re excited to announce that CAVA will make its Northern California debut at 3055 Olin Avenue, Suite 1035, in San Jose next year, with two additional CAVA restaurants planned closer to San Francisco,\u201d Jeff Gaul, CAVA\u2019s chief development officer, said in a statement to KRON4.<\/p>\n

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While the company isn\u2019t yet revealing exact opening dates or the locations of the two additional restaurants, Gaul said the Bay Area has long been on its radar. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to finally bring CAVA to Northern California after years of hearing from passionate fans across the region who have asked us to come their way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The expansion is also expected to bring new jobs to the Bay Area. According to the company, each new restaurant will employ about 25 to 40 local team members.<\/p>\n

CAVA is often compared to Chipotle, but with a Mediterranean-inspired menu that has developed a devoted following nationwide. <\/p>\n

It has grown rapidly since opening its first restaurant in 2011. Today, the chain operates more than 450 locations nationwide, including about 45 in California, all of which are currently in Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KRON) \u2014 The wait is finally over for Bay Area CAVA fans. After years of speculation and customer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-428081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}