Louisiana’s chicken finger king Todd Graves takes a white cushy office chair on ABC’s “Shark Tank” for the first time at 7 p.m. Friday.
The episode will be available on Hulu the following day.
Graves is one of the guest “sharks” for the Emmy-winning series’ 16th season. The show has budding entrepreneurs pitching their products to a panel of celebrity investors or “sharks” in hopes of at least one of the investors throwing big-time money at their projects.
Todd Graves, left, confers with fellow ‘shark’ Kevin O’Leary about a possible product investment on Friday’s ‘Shark Tank.’
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In Friday’s episode, the unique products include at-home seafood steam pots, fried chicken-shaped ice cream, a magnetic solution to safely secure skis and snowboards, and a portable backyard golf game.Â
Other guest “sharks” this season are:
- Jamie Kern Lima, co-founder of IT Cosmetics and host of “The Jamie Kern Lima Show”
- Rashaun Williams, venture capitalist, Atlanta Falcons limited partner and financial literacy activist
- Kendra Scott, philanthropist and founder behind the eponymous global lifestyle brand
Graves opened his first Raising Cane’s eatery in 1996 in Baton Rouge. There are now 830-plus locations of Cane’s in the United States, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
He has also starred on the reality TV series “Secret Sauce with Todd Graves,” “Restaurant Recovery,” “Fast N’ Loud,” “Food Court Wars” and “Secret Millionaire.”