/CAVA_Grill

CAVA is a growing Mediterranean, fast-casual restaurant chain with a flavorful menu of customizable bowls, salads and pitas.

The client had already published a successful cross-platform React Native mobile app to support their order ahead system, and Work & Co's mission was to create a new version of that app, still using the same technologies.

The application's design and implementation was centered around the concept of "order sentences": customers could create new customized orders using a text-like interface, and use an "emoji" keyboard for ingredient. That way of representing orders was reused throughout the app, including in non-editable order views, creating a language of its own for the restaurant chain's rich menu.

We had a large team for this project (relatively speaking) that worked closely with the client's engineering team not only to create a new version of their mobile app, but also to help them redefine the schema for a new version of their server-side APIs based on new business requirements.

This project presented several interesting visual challenges. The home screen carousel (a custom carousel featuring diagonally masked, parallax supporting content), many subtle but complex animations, and some of the layout aspects of the order sentence component (where emojis and text components had to mixed with custom layout rules) were highly challenging and yet thoroughly enjoyable highlights for me.