ToNeTo Atlanta has learned that Raising Cane's plans to open their new Dacula restaurant in March. The restaurant, located at 3485 Braselton Highway between Arby's and Starbucks, was built on the site of a demolished former BB&T bank. ToNeTo Atlanta first reported on the Baton Rouge-based chain's plans to open in metro Atlanta in December 2021 when we exclusively reported on the Raising Cane's planned for Buford Drive near the Mall of Georgia in Buford.
A third Raising Cane's along Highway 92 in Woodstock is still in its pre-construction phase but is slated to open by the end of 2023, according to a Raising Cane's representative.
ToNeTo Atlanta is tracking several additional Raising Cane's restaurants including one close to the perimeter and another that if the stars align, could the first to penetrate the perimeter and actually be within the city of Atlanta.
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.
Today, there are more than 500 Raising Cane's locations worldwide, but for now, just the one Georgia location in Athens. The company has said it plans to open at least ten locations in Georgia in the coming years.
Raising Cane's Dacula is slated to open March 9.
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