re: I recently tried Raising Cane's for the first time

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Didn't Todd Graves, who used to work at Gurthrie's (Athens, GA), just use their exact same recipe and business models?

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Yes. Both Zaxby's and Raising Cane's are copies of Guthrie's.

Guthrie's (now HQ'd in Auburn), started in Haleyville, Alabama in 1965 as a typical southern meat & three place. They began focusing on chicken fingers in the late 70s before opening satellite stores in college towns (Auburn in 1982 and Athens in 1984).