Raising Cane's Sells One Thing and Beats McDonald's Per Store

Raising Cane's sells one thing — chicken fingers — and still takes in more per store than the average McDonald's: about $6.6M a year vs just over $4M. Here's how one box beats a full burger menu, and why the founder refused the deal that built McDonald's. Chapters: 0:00 One item beats McDonald's 0:47 How big Raising Cane's really is 1:33 The B-minus business plan 1:49 The real product: ownership 2:38 5 reasons one box out-earns a menu 4:25 Three kinds of Cane's restaurants 5:23 The hidden costs 6:39 Billions in borrowed money 7:07 How Todd Graves got to $22B 7:49 The number that runs everything 8:18 Rivals that got a different result 8:59 What could go wrong 9:46 One store, two ways: the math 11:09 The Chick-fil-A third way 11:55 Why Graves can afford to borrow 12:30 What this means for you 13:26 Your turn ▶ In-N-Out refuses to franchise too — and earns even more per store: [ссылка на видео In-N-Out] Which would you rather own: one Cane's outright, or a slice of ten franchised stores? Tell me in the comments. The "two ways" store comparison is a simplified hypothetical model based on reported company-wide figures, not any real restaurant's books. Net worth figures are Forbes estimates as of September 2025. This video is for education and entertainment only, not financial advice. Sources: Forbes (Apr 2025, Sep 2025) · QSR Magazine QSR 50 (2025) · Restaurant Business · CNBC (Jun 2025) · Bloomberg (Sep 2024) · McDonald's Form 10-Q (Q3 2025) · Raising Cane's FDD · Slate (Aug 2026) #raisingcanes #mcdonalds #businessmodel