Todd Graves

Todd Graves (born February 20, 1972 ) is an American entrepreneur and founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, a fast food restaurant specializing in fried chicken finger meals.

Graves was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Graves graduated from Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge.

Graves and long-time friend Craig Silvey used Silvey's business plan course at LSU to create their business plan.

Graves opened Raising Cane's near the North Gates of Louisiana State University on Highland Road in 1996.

By 2022, the company expanded to more than 600 restaurants in the U.S. and the Middle East.

The restaurants are named after Raising Cane I, Graves’ dog at the time of founding the first restaurant.

They are headquartered in Baton Rouge.

Graves and his wife, Gwen, have two children and reside in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with their yellow Labrador, Raising Cane III.

An avid collector, Graves has loaned a 66-million-year-old triceratops skull to the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum.

He has also loaned the hearse that carried Martin Luther King, Jr.

to exhibits across the country.