I ordered build-your-own bowls from Cava and Sweetgreen. Both tasted delicious, but the winner didn't charge for as many add-ons.

Tech Insider
The order counter at the Sweetgreen on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, showing salad and vegetables
Cold toppings included spicy broccoli, pickled pink onion, and red cabbage.

Grace Dean/Business Insider

Here's what it's like to eat at Cava, the salad chain plotting rapid expansion across the US

Tech Insider
The interior of the Cava restaurant in Chicago, showing the counter which is full of ingredients as well as a line of customers waiting to order
Cava sells customizable salad and grain bowls.

Grace Dean/Business Insider

I ate at Cava and Chipotle, and I can see why Gen Z has crowned a new fast-casual king

Tech Insider
Nancy Luna, Insider food correspondent, compares Chipotle to Cava.
Some people are calling Cava the next Chipotle. Nancy Luna, Insider food correspondent, compares the two chains.

Nancy Luna/Insider

Panera Bread founder says he thought it would be easier to be 'hit by a truck' during the chain's stressful 2015 overhaul

Tech Insider
Ron Shaich serving
Panera founder Ron Shaich.

Panera/David Elmes

I ate at Cava, the popular Mediterranean fast-casual chain that's going public. It was mostly delicious but I was let down by the hummus.

Tech Insider
Insider reporter Nancy Luna tries Cava
Insider's restaurants correspondent Nancy Luna loves CAVA's bold healthy flavors, but the hummus was shockingly bad.

Nancy Luna

Subscribe to cava