A former Zoës Kitchen in Sandy Springs will not be opening as a Cava after all. Located at The Plaza at City Springs in Sandy Springs [5840 Roswell Road], just outside I-285, the restaurant closed this past December and was thought to be reopening as a Cava following the company's recent conversion model. Instead, however, the restaurant will reopen as a first of its kind "Cava Digital Kitchen," geared towards ordering via the Cava app and catering.

The new Sandy Springs restaurant will have a dozen or so interior seats around the perimeter of the restaurant and a few tables outside on the patio but is very much geared towards off-premise dining. There will be no menu boards and or in restaurant "assembly line" type ordering as ordering must done in advance, through the Cava app or if a large catering order, is called in. The Digital Kitchen, which is very much a test for Cava, will open Sunday, February 28 and is likely to be the first of ten to twelve the company opens in the next year or so. In The Plaza at City Springs, Cava joins Buffalo Wild Wings GO, a smaller format Buffalo Wild Wings that made its nationwide debut in the center in May of 2020. The concept is similar to Cava in that it's geared towards app, delivery and take-out orders, but it does offer menu boards for on-premise ordering and even has some tables and TVs for guests to enjoy while they wait for their food.