Kelly Costanza, Chief People Officer at CAVA

Podcast: Built By People · Madeline Safsten + Kimball Payne

Opublikowano: 2026-02-18

Episode Description: CAVA's stock has risen over 300% since its IPO. Its restaurants average $2.6 million in sales. It's on a path to 1,000 locations by 2032. But behind those numbers is a people strategy that most fast-growing brands get completely wrong. In this episode of Built by People, we sit down with Kelly Costanza, Chief People Officer at CAVA — the woman CAVA's own CEO credits with rebuilding the company's culture from the ground up after a $300M acquisition nearly broke it. Kelly pulls back the curtain on how CAVA turned a cultural crisis into a co...