The Louisiana-based restaurants four-legged mascot is the real secret sauce.
According toMashed, his professor thought the concept was too niche and therefore unlikely to succeed.
Fortunately, Graves was undeterred.
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He spent his first months out of college working hard to raise money for a brick and mortar restaurant.
A new yellow Labrador, fittingly named Cane II, took over the role as mascot in 1999.
Raising Canes opened its 828th location last month.
