Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers

Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is an American fast-food chain specializing in chicken fingers founded in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Todd Graves and Craig Silvey. The company is named after Graves' dog, a yellow Labrador. Other yellow Labradors have served as company mascots, as well as certified therapy animals. History Founders Todd Graves and Craig Silvey were studying at different universities when they wrote a plan for a chicken-finger restaurant which Silvey submitted in a business plan writing course, receiving a C-minus grade. At the time, Graves worked at Guthrie's Chicken Fingers. The business plan was rejected numerous times by potential investors, so Graves and Slivey earned the needed money working various manual labor jobs. They obtained an SBA loan, which they used to open their first restaurant, located in Baton Rouge at the intersection of Highland Road and State Street near the LSU campus. Slivey sold his share of the partnership shortly after the second restaurant opened. In 2022 Raising Cane's sued a shopping center in Hobart, Indiana, because Cane's had missed discovering, before they'd signed a long-term lease, that the shopping center had a non-compete agreement with McDonald's that prohibited other vendors selling chicken fingers in the complex.