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Raising Cane’s on its new restaurant partner program

Founder and Co-CEO Todd Graves and Co-CEO AJ Kumaran join "A Deeper Dive" to talk about the program, as well as the chicken trend, growth and technology.

Raising Cane’s strategy to get and keep good operators is to make them rich.

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast "A Deeper Dive" features Todd Graves, founder and co-CEO of Cane’s, along with Co-CEO AJ Kumaran, to talk about the chain’s new restaurant partner program.

Cane’s is one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the U.S., and now generates more than $1.5 billion in system sales every year with just one primary menu item: chicken fingers.

Graves talks about the simplicity of the menu and why it works. And he and Kumaran discuss the company’s restaurant partner program, which features numerous benefits and compensation designed to keep good operators with the company for the long term. They also talk about their views on delivery.

Please have a listen.

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