The Next Chipotle or the Next Sweetgreen?

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava has filed for an IPO later this year. Will investors be as satisfied as Cava’s customers? (00:21) Jason Moser discusses: - The growth of Cava and the company’s plans for capital raised during the IPO - How Cava could end up as the next Chipotle (or not) - What another big week of retail earnings portends (12:43) A lot of companies are talking about artificial intelligence on their conference calls this earnings season. Ricky Mulvey talks with Motley Fool analyst Meilin Quinn about a business that may be getting a genuine tailwind from AI. Companies discussed: CMG, SG, COST, LOW, BBY, HD, WMT, TGT, CHGG, DUOL Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jason Moser, Meilin Quinn Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One company is walking the walk on AI and another company is getting ready for its debut
0:10.2	in the public markets.
0:11.6	Motelful Money starts now.
0:14.9	I'm Chris Hill, joining me in studio, Motelful Senior Analyst, Jason Moser.
0:25.4	Happy Monday.
0:26.4	Addy.
0:28.4	I'm excited about a potential IPL and potential.
0:32.1	I mean, barring something on for seeing Kava, the Mediterranean restaurant chain, will
0:37.3	be going public later this year.
0:39.0	They have filed the requisite paperwork.
0:41.7	I think we talked about this on market fullery five years ago because Kava is a private company,
0:48.6	but in 2018 they bought Zoe's Kitchen, which was a publicly traded chain that was struggling
0:55.2	and $300 million is the price tag I remember.
1:00.9	And I think we said at the time, it kind of seems like they're basically buying the
1:06.4	real estate.
1:07.4	They're going to turn all of these Zoe's Kitchens into Kava's, which they have methodically
1:12.1	done.
1:14.1	To the extent that you've had the chance to look over the S1 filing, what stands out
1:18.5	to you about this?
1:19.5	I mean, I'm excited about it because it's a restaurant I've been to.
1:22.9	That's how my animal brain works.
1:25.0	How would you say you frequent more Kava or Chipotle?
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