Cava reports sales growth even as some customers steer clear of lettuce
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Cava growing sales while customers actively avoid a core ingredient shows menu and ops flexibility can blunt category-wide safety scares. If you run multi-SKU consumer ops, model how quickly you can reconfigure product mix and messaging when a single input becomes reputationally toxic.
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