[EXCLUSIVE] Raising Cane's Cashes in on Another Former Bank Site

ToNeTo Atlanta continues to be your number one source for updates on the Atlanta market entry of Raising Cane's and we are pleased to report that another Raising Cane's is in the works!  A new Raising Cane's is planned for Conyers where it would open on land home to a former Truist branch.     

The new Raising Cane's is planned for 1524 Highway 138 where it will reportedly be one of several new business constructed on the nearly six acre parcel once home to the bank and offices.   

Related: Former Chastain Park Arby's to become new Fifth Third Bank branch. 

The new Conyers Raising Cane's would position the growing chicken chain a stone's throw from an existing Chick-fil-A at 1536 Highway 138 which opened on the site of a shuttered Piccadilly Cafeteria in 2020.  (The original Conyers Chick-fil-was was located at 1610 Highway 138 and first opened in 1990.)  

The new Conyers Raising Cane's will mark the chain's first unit in Rockdale County.  

Raising Cane's expanded from Athens to include a new unit in Dacula in March 2023.  They later debuted their heavily delayed unit on Buford Drive near the Mall of Georgia in Augus 2023, followed by a restaurant on Highway 92 in Woodstock in February 2024.  

A new location on Scenic Highway in Snellville opened this past October, followed by one on Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth this past February and another on Jonesboro Road in McDonough this past March.    

ToNeTo Atlanta exclusively reported this past September that the company is also opening a new restaurant along Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw.  Perhaps the biggest news though was our exclusive report this past November that new Raising Cane's are also coming to Buckhead and West Midtown where the chicken chain is replacing former Krystal restaurants.   

Raising Cane's is also in talks to open a new restaurant at 4570 Ashford Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody where it would replace a former Wells Fargo bank.     

For those unfamiliar - aka non "Caniacs" - of which there don't seem to be many, Raising Cane's features a very simple menu with a focus on fried chicken fingers.  Menu offerings also include a fried chicken sandwich, crinkle-cut fries, Texas Toast, and coleslaw, an item famously eliminated from the menu at rival Chick-fil-A in early 2016.          

University of Georgia graduate Todd Graves, along with his business partner Craig Silvey, opened the first Raising Cane's in Baton Rouge near the LSU campus in 1996.  Graves, who worked for Guthrie's (which proudly claims to be "America's Original Chicken Finger Restaurant") while in school in Athens, would later return to the Classic City in 2006 when he opened a new Raising Cane's on land that had been home to Guthrie's from 1984 until its closure in 2004.       

Ranked by Average Unit Volume (AUV), Raising Cane's is typically second, just behind Chick-fil-A.  The company earlier this year surpassed 900 Raising Cane's restaurants across 40 states.  

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