Why Raising Cane’s Founder Todd Graves Is Trying To Save Independent Restaurants

Why Raising Cane’s Founder Todd Graves Is Trying To Save Independent Restaurants

Share to Linkedin Raising Cane's founder and CEO Todd Graves pitched in his own money and expertise to help 10 ... [+] independent restaurants for a new series called Restaurant Recovery. Todd Graves oversees one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains with one of the highest average unit volumes in the country. That's not to say he's forgotten his roots, however. In fact, he speaks fondly of his time spent working in oil refineries and commercial fishing en route to building his first Raising Cane's restaurant in 1996. Now, 550 Raising Cane's locations later, he wants to ensure other restaurateurs can follow that same dream, despite the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis that has devastated much of the industry. In doing so, the Raising Cane's founder/CEO recruited experts from his own company, as well as celebrity friends like Shaquille O'Neal and Snoop Dogg, to help 10 independent restaurants struggling through the pandemic for a new series called Restaurant Recovery. The program will stream exclusively on discovery+ beginning today with Chili John's in Los Angeles, which has been around since 1946. The idea behind the show came from Graves simply wanting to "pay it forward" in a challenging environment in which 10% of all