Todd Graves named Raising Cane's after his yellow labrador retriever.Joey Bordelon/Raising Cane'sTodd Graves opened the first Raising Cane's in Louisiana on August 28, 1996.It was based on a business plan for a chicken-fingers chain he'd worked on out of college.Graves is worth an estimated $9.5 billion, per Forbes, and is the wealthiest resident in Louisiana.In the mid-1990s, Todd Graves and his friend, Craig Silvey, wrote a business plan for a fast-food restaurant that sold only fried chicken tenders.

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  • No Business Skills, No Loans, No Problem: How Todd Graves Built A Billion Dollar Chicken Finger Empire Against All Odds
    Todd Graves' idea to open a restaurant in Louisiana with his partner Craig Silvey got them the lowest grade in Silvey's undergraduate business class because they planned to sell only chicken fingers.
    10/11/2024 - 3:56 am | View Link
  • How the Raising Cane's founder, Todd Graves, turned a lousy college grade into a billion-dollar fast-food business
    Todd Graves, worth an estimated $9.5 billion, turned the lowest grade in a business class at Louisiana State University into Raising Cane's.
    11/28/2023 - 4:30 am | View Link
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