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!
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The Columbus restaurant is expected to open in early 2026 and will mark the first Raising Cane's in Muscogee County.
Related: Popular Canadian coffee and donut shop Tim Hortons made their Georgia debut in Columbus in June 2023.
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. ToNeTo Atlanta reported June 17 that the company is also opening a new unit in Conyers.
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.
Raising Cane's earlier this year surpassed 900 restaurants across 40 states.
Are you excited about the opening of Raising Cane's in Columbus? Who do you think makes the best chicken tenders? Where else in metro Atlanta would you like to see Raising Cane's open?
Please share your thoughts below.
7 comments:
The former Krystal location in Buckhead is very small. I am surprised they are building there - no room for parking!
More salty, unhealthy crap for the fatties.
Not excited by the explosion in chicken strip joints. Already a stale idea but they continue to expand full bore. Any truth that Raising Canes will occupy the fast-food box under construction at the MarketPlace Terrell Mill on Powers Ferry? If not, any idea what is going to take that space? They've been very secretive.
Guthrie’s was better
Agreed I was actually hoping and disappointed they didn’t make that Krystal’s into a hookah lounge. Maybe someone will buy the old buckhead diner and make that a hookah lounge.
Why does everyone want a lounge for Hookers? Why are you supporting prostitution?
Open up your all celery all water restaurant! Healthy and good for you! Puke up the celery and re eat it later, saves money too. Good idea. No one will be fat then:
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