Todd Graves
14 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 9, 2025 by Todd Graves · said 15 times in 3 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 15 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
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Nov 9, 2025 positive
Graves: Shaving two seconds off drive-through time yields $60M in sales
“Every two seconds that I can get faster is a point on sales. So let's just say just roughly one percent. If we do six billion in sales this year, what's one percent, six billion, that's six, sixty million dollars in sales you can do if you can tweak that, that…”
Nov 9, 2025
Nov 9, 2025
Nov 9, 2025 neutral
Graves: Raising Cane's carries approximately $3 billion in debt
“Someday when I clear debt, I'm like a three billion dollars in debt now, eventually with our growth, you know, as we go, God willing, we'll go, and then we'll be able to pay down debt, and we'll have, when I have this free cash flow coming out, and doing, we'r…”
Nov 9, 2025 neutral
Nov 9, 2025 positive
Graves: Raising Cane's Is Valued at Over $20 Billion on 20x EBITDA
“We're trading on, not trading, we don't trade, but we're valued on over 20 times EBITDA, those company restaurants. Go into that. So the profitability that comes into all of it gets on that, that higher multiple. That's why we have the twenty billion plus valu…”
Nov 9, 2025
Graves: Leaders must stay in details and supplement before delegating
“So, I say you don't delegate, you hire great people, you help them and do it, and if they do it better than you, then you can back off, and you make sure all those components of the business, look, I'm not great at IT, I have an exceptional IT team. They do it…”
Nov 9, 2025 positive
Graves: Raising Cane's buys the underlying real estate wherever possible
“Wherever I can. Absolutely wherever I can, I do. Just good real estate, a quality real estate. It's just, there's so many people that own it. It's part of larger shopping centers, larger developments. A lot of it's in trust, you know, family trust and things l…”
Nov 9, 2025 negative
Graves: Private Equity Ruins Fast Food by Cutting Wages and Quality
“When you lose that founder personal, that this is their baby, you start making the wrong decisions right now. You really do. And so, so profit equity, they have their shareholders and they have to make a certain amount of money. They're not getting the returns…”
Nov 9, 2025
Nov 9, 2025 negative
Graves: Incremental Cost Cuts Destroy Fast-Food Craveability
“If you start cutting a little bit here to save a penny, and you start cutting a little bit here and a little bit here, it's death by a thousand cuts. Then your food one day is not craveable. That's what's happened to so many quick service chains over the years…”
Nov 9, 2025
Graves: Raising Cane's college business plan received lowest grade in class
“That professor gave you the worst grade in the class, which is classic but it was only a B minus. The rumor went out that it was a failing grade and all this stuff is, but he was, he actually said a little greater, but he said, no, the plan was great. Like lit…”
Nov 9, 2025
Graves: Performance reviews should happen daily through coaching, not every six months
“This is how you get weeded out of Keynes corporate is the people that Can't take constant, constant coaching, and it's coaching, right? You know, it's like, well, no, we should meet every six months on a eval, and how we're doing, and blah, blah, blah, and all…”