re: Todd Graves: Living the life

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Just that it is suspicious that they all offer a similar dish and near identical sauce and Canes was founded last of the three.

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Bruh, I remember when Canes first opened. Perfect location to start an up and coming franchise.

2:30-3AM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings that place was absolutely packed. I remember when you told people "you need to go check out the chicken fingers from that place raising canes by campus".

They would close at like 3:30AM on the mornings I mentioned above and then open at 11AM. We used to go pick up lunch there on Sunday and go watch football.

The size of the place was perfect for business because if you were going home from going out and you passed by there and saw the line waiting to get in it was just like "damn that place is always happening at this time, we need to go check it out".

Obviously the quality dropped a bit, build the brand, then buy cheaper quality and sell higher. McDonalds started off with a much better quality burger that was actually beef. He was right next to campus instead of on the corner of Lee and Highland where he put his second location and shut down the chicken place right across the street.

Many people were already aware of the one near campus "oh look. I heard such and such talk about this place by campus, lets go check it out". Now all of a sudden it wasn't just a place for drunk college kids.

He kind of did what facebook did before facebook did it. At one point in order to open a franchise it had to be within a certain radius of a college. Make it a popular thing among the college kids. They communicate with a lot of people.

Now, looking at their site. The largest number I see is 69 locations. They have 8 new locations opening between February 21 and April 18th. 2 in Arizona, one in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, & Tennessee.

He worked hard to get to where he is. Props. That said, I find the food is almost average, incredibly boring and overpriced.