According to plans recently filed with the city of Philadelphia, a 6.2-acre development is being proposed at 16 Snyder Ave., with Raising Cane’s named as one of the shopping center’s tenants. Dustin Shearer, VP of company restaurants, says that outpost should open late 2023 or early 2024.
“I think everybody in Philadelphia is excited just as much as we are,” Shearer tells What Now Philadelphia. “Four restaurants opened in the last couple months in Pennsylvania and we’re so proud of that, we’re very excited about it and how the community has welcomed us.”
Shearer goes on to add, “It’s just an up-and-coming area, gorgeous, with a ton of community around it. It’s going to be an amazing community restaurant in a new development area.”
News of the Snyder location aligns with an announcement earlier this year that the company would be opening some 20 new restaurants across Pennsylvania, as What Now Philadelphia reported at the time.
Founded in Baton Rouge in 1996 by the uncompromising entrepreneur Todd Graves, Raising Cane’s now has more than 600 locations across the country. However, that success was not without its doubters.
According to Graves’ story on the company’s official website, Raising Cane’s “began as a college dream” which was parlayed into an assignment for Graves’s business course that, “ironically, earned the lowest grade in the class. The professor said a restaurant serving only chicken fingers in South Louisiana would never work.”
Since then, Graves has gone on to not only build a chicken empire but also earn wide acclaim, with such accolades as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, SCORE Award for Outstanding Socially Progressive Business, Restaurateur of the Year by Louisiana Restaurant Association, and Louisianan of the Year by Louisiana Life.
