The fast-casual bowl boom is over. Wall Street isn't sold on Cava, Chipotle deals to lure back spenders

The fast-casual bowl boom is over. Wall Street isn't sold on Cava, Chipotle deals to lure back spenders

As sales at Chipotle, Cava and Sweetgreen fall, fast-casual chains are turning more to promotions and loyalty programs to get Gen Z spending on bowls again.

The fast-casual bowl boom is over. Wall Street isn't sold on Cava, Chipotle deals to lure back spenders

The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images At 12:30 p.m. in midtown Manhattan on mid-week office days, long lines still form outside Chipotle, Cava, and Sweetgreen. Fast-casual bowls remain the defining lunch of the hybrid-work era, something quick to carry, simple to eat at a desk, and familiar enough to order without thinking. But this visible popularity now sits beside a more difficult financial reality inside the chain restaur…