Financing

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.

Members help make our journalism possible. Become a Restaurant Business member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here.

Multimedia

Exclusive Content

Financing

Cracker Barrel's logo controversy recovery strategy is working better than expected

The Bottom Line: The family-dining chain is recovering more quickly than anticipated, despite some gas price headwinds, proving last year’s wounds to be more superficial than initially thought.

Food

Hat Creek Burger merges two big Texas tastes into a new menu item

Behind the Menu: The Pitmaster Stack is piled high with authentic barbecue, thanks to a collaboration between a pair of iconic Lone Star State concepts.

Food

Milwaukee’s Ca'Lucchenzo took the long way to the James Beard awards

After paying their dues in the local dining scene, Zak and Sarah Baker opened the restaurant of their dreams, an Italian concept with adventurous pastas. Now Zak is up for Best Chef in the Midwest.

Trending

More from our partners