Raising Cane’s Franchisee Unveils Managing Partner Program

Southern Hospitality Ventures (SHV), a proud franchisee of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, has unveiled an unmatched Managing Partner Program that aims to make its highest-performing restaurant leaders, or general managers, excel financially without an upfront investment. The program lays out a path for high-performing restaurants to attain a level of compensation unmatched in the restaurant industry—more than $100,000 per year in salary, bonuses, and incentives. In short, the initiative is designed to create millionaires out of restaurant leaders and help fuel the brand’s continued growth.

Justin and Jennifer Jones, owners of the SHV franchise, opened their first Raising Cane’s restaurant in 2006, and they focus the menu on fresh, made-to-order chicken fingers paired with their homemade Cane’s sauce, grilled Texas toast, creamy coleslaw, and crinkle-cut fries. Having become America’s fastest-growing chicken brand, Raising Cane’s new Restaurant Partner Program invites exceptional restaurant managers to invest in the form of hard work and stellar performance—both in the restaurant and as leaders in their community—in place of the typical financial buy-in required by other restaurant concepts.

SVH’s CEO Justin Jones says the goal of the Managing Partner Program is to partner with leading performers for the long term.

“Franchisees aren’t normally allowed to create these types of programs,” Justin said. “However, we are fortunate to be partnered with a great brand that allows us to do so. To us, that’s important and separates the Raising Cane’s brand from other concepts.”

SHV has four locations in Lincoln and nine others across Nebraska and Iowa. The company has made community involvement a key to its operations because they don’t want to be just another restaurant, but instead to be the community’s restaurant. Since its inception, the franchise has given back more than $2 million to their restaurants’ communities, including Nebraska veterans and their families, Nebraska No-Kill Canine Rescue, Nebraska military troops, the Nebraska National Guard Foundation, and more. To find the location nearest you, visit www.raisingcanes.com/locations, and for more information, email mp@shv-inc.com.