Raising Cane's doubles its pace with 12 US openings in November
The chicken chain adds a dozen restaurants across seven states this month, even as its London flagship's opening date keeps slipping.
Raising Cane's will open 12 new restaurants across the United States in November, nearly double October's pace, as the chicken chain pushes toward its UK debut.
The Louisiana-founded chain's November openings include its first restaurants in Brick, New Jersey; Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, alongside further sites in Utah, Florida, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Illinois and Alabama. October brought seven new restaurants, running from Wisconsin to Oregon to Georgia, a spread that shows the chain filling in secondary markets rather than clustering near existing strongholds.
A company spokesperson called the November batch "another exciting milestone in Raising Cane's continued growth," language that tracks a run of near-monthly expansion through 2026.
A dozen US openings a month, one still-unconfirmed London date: Raising Cane's is scaling at home before testing Britain.
Scale built on a single menu
Raising Cane's sells a narrow menu built around chicken fingers, and research firm Technomic put the chain at 913 US locations at the end of 2025, with sales of $5.48bn that year. Founded in 1996 by Todd Graves and Craig Silvey, it now ranks as the third-largest chicken chain in the country, with restaurants also open in the Middle East.
The domestic pace sits alongside a slower-moving international push. Job listings this autumn point to sites in Dalston, Tottenham Court Road and Kingston upon Thames, suggesting a London rollout of up to five restaurants.
A flagship still without a firm date
The company's UK flagship, planned for the former Angus Steakhouse site on Coventry Street near Leicester Square, has no confirmed opening date. Co-chief executive AJ Kumaran has said only that the company is aiming to open its doors "late next year," a timeline that has already slipped once since the London plan was first announced.
That gap between a dozen US openings a month and a single still-unconfirmed London date says something about how the chain is sequencing its growth: scale first at home, where the format and supply chain are proven, before testing an unfamiliar market such as Britain's, where fried-chicken competition from Dave's Hot Chicken, now at 17 UK sites, is already established.
