<P> Todd Graves first started dreaming of his very own restaurant in the early 1990s . Craig Silvey , an initial partner in Todd 's plan , was enrolled in a business plan writing course at LSU at the time . They wrote the business plan and Silvey turned it in , for which Silvey received a `` B - '' . Although the business plan was rejected numerous times by potential investors , Graves set out to earn the money he needed to start the restaurant , first by working in refineries in California , then by fishing for sockeye salmon in Alaska . He and Silvey then obtained an SBA loan , which they used to open the first restaurant in Baton Rouge at the intersection of Highland Road and State Street near the LSU campus . They even drew on the help of friends and family for some of the work on Cane 's 1 , and many of these names are carved in the restaurant woodwork . Originally , the small restaurant competed against a similarly themed drive - in called Bailey 's Chicken Fingers on the opposite end of the campus . By 1999 , however , it was able to prove itself the more successful business : it forced Bailey 's out of business , becoming the only chicken - finger focused restaurant in the area . </P>
where was the first raising cane 's located
in Baton Rouge at the intersection of Highland Road and State Street near the LSU campus