Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Graves had a vision for a quick-service restaurant focusing on a simple menu item, chicken fingers. Unable to gain financing, Graves decided to raise his own capital and worked as a boilermaker in Los Angeles, California and a commercial sockeye salmon fisherman in Naknek, Alaska. On August 28, 1996, Graves opened Raising Cane's for business. Over the next 12 years, Graves would oversee the company expansion to more than 100 restaurants and more than $100 million in annual sales.
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