Todd Graves
19 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2022 by Todd Graves · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Apr 25, 2022 neutral
Graves funded the first Raising Cane's with boilermakers, realtors, and a bookie
“Two of my investors were bowler makers that I had worked with. They live, these are like, 10,000 dollar investors, 5000 dollar investors. One was Mr. Red Reynolds, our realtor. Another one was a high school friend that actually worked bullermaking with me out …”
Apr 25, 2022
Graves: Single fast-food locations cannot build wealth without multi-unit scale
“Quick service restaurants make tiny margins on large volumes. It's just what it is. And look, you can have a whole family working in a restaurant, and I know a lot of great Family restaurants that do that, so you lower your labor cost, and everybody kind of li…”
Apr 25, 2022 positive
Graves: In-N-Out succeeded since 1948 while resisting competitor menu expansion
“Since 1948, they've been doing this, so if you imagine, as all the other burger competitors, you know, they all opened around them, and they added everything, and did everything, but since 1948, In-N-Out Burger's been doing the same thing, and doing extremely …”
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Dec 25, 2025
Graves: Early Cane's Scaled on 15% Subordinated Debt to Protect Equity
“So what I had was angel investors that I would do a 15% interest rate, subordinated debt. Okay. It was a one pager and I personally endorse these. I mean, if I personally signed onto it, so they knew anything I had in the world, which is all just tied up the b…”
Dec 25, 2025 bullish
Graves: Company-owned restaurant chains achieve far higher valuations than franchise models
“Another advantage of having your own restaurants, company restaurants, is that your valuations are way higher, right? So your sales, your profitability, your EBITDA that goes through as you grow company restaurants, just the company's worth so much more, man.”
Dec 25, 2025 negative
Dec 25, 2025
Todd Graves: Raising Cane's Will Remain a Generational, Company-Owned Business
“And so for me is I'm not selling the business. I love the business. I want it to be a generational business and to keep rolling. And the best way to have something I'd be proud of for me personally was to own them company restaurants.”
Dec 25, 2025 bullish
Todd Graves: Raising Cane's Has 1,000 Locations and Plans 1,000 More
“And now I got a thousand brick and mortars and we're planning on the next thousand, you know what I mean? But if I tried to get into retail line, you know, the grocery stores want canes frozen in the grocery stores retail, they want our sauce bottle. They want…”