What happened Zoes Kitchen?

If it seems like Zoës Kitchens are vanishing across North Texas, some are: A fast-casual named Cava acquired Plano-based Zoës Kitchen in 2018and is transitioning many of the bright-colored Zoës Mediterranean shops into the more “adventurous” Cava.

Is Zoes Kitchen going out of business?

The new company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., Cava’s home, and will keep a “meaningful presence” in Plano, Texas, where Zoes Kitchen began in 1995. “The Zoes Kitchen brand will remain intact for the foreseeable future,” the company said Wednesday.

What replaced Zoes Kitchen?

Cava Mediterranean
Cava, a build-your-own Mediterranean bowl counter-service concept, officially opened in the Tuxedo Festival shopping center in Buckhead last Friday.

How many Zoe’s Kitchen locations?

Zoës Kitchen

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	June 1995 (as Zoe’s Kitchen, Inc.) Homewood, Alabama, U.S.
Founder	Marcus Cassimus Zoë Cassimus
Headquarters	Plano, Texas , U.S.
Number of locations	258 stores

Is Cava taking over Zoes?

Fast-casual Mediterranean operator Cava Group has begun converting some of the Zoe’s Kitchen restaurants it acquired in 2018 to the Cava concept. The company’s $300 million acquisition of Zoe’s, based in Plano, Texas, grew the company from 66 to 326 locations across the U.S.

Is Cava owned by Chipotle?

Cava is owned by Cava Group, which also owns Zoës Kitchen. The combined company is the largest restaurant operator in the Mediterranean category in the U.S. restaurant industry….Cava (restaurant)