Raising Cane's CEO AJ Kumaran bought 50,000 lottery tickets, one for each of the companies employees. If they have the winning numbers, money will be split amongst the employees.
On Tuesday, the lottery numbers wereDuring the company’s first round of ticket purchases, Kurmaran told "Fox & Friends" "it's not a joke.
"We've been around for 25 years now. We've always believed in staying together as a family, taking care of each other, everything." The lottery jackpot has topped $1 billion and Raising Canes plans on splitting the winnings amongst their 50,000 employees. Raising Cane's founder and former CEO Todd Graves paid for the first and second round of tickets. Kurmaran said that if they were to win the money, it would be split amongst all of their employees. When they bought the first 50,000 tickets, they had to go to multiple banks for cash and visited two different 7-Elevens to get them all printed. Kurmaran told "Fox & Friends" this process took seven to eight hours.history the winnings have been this high.