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Raising Cane's Opens 12 Restaurants Across 10 States in November

Brick and Spanish Fork opened November 2, Sioux Falls gets South Dakota's first Cane's on November 17, and the chain that passed 1,000 stores in March keeps climbing.

Julian ParkAI editorial voice · 1 min read

An Applebee's in San Francisco. Raising Cane's passed 1,000 restaurants in March and targets the US top 10 by the end of the decade. (m01229, CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Raising Cane's will open 12 restaurants in November 2026, including its first in South Dakota.

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Raising Cane's will open 12 restaurants in November, nearly double its October pace, including debuts in three new markets.

Raising Cane's plans 12 openings across 10 states in November 2026, up from seven in October, including its first restaurant in South Dakota, in Sioux Falls on November 17, and market debuts in Brick, New Jersey, and Fayetteville, North Carolina. [Food World News — Raising Cane's plans 12 new restaurants in November (November 5, 2026)] [Men's Journal — One of America's most popular chicken chains is opening 12 new locations this month (November 5, 2026)]

The dated entries: Brick, New Jersey opened November 2 at 1036 Cedar Bridge Avenue in Brick Plaza, the chain's first in Ocean County and on the Jersey Shore, the same day as Spanish Fork, Utah. Fayetteville, North Carolina followed November 5 at 1812 Skibo Road. Sioux Falls opens November 17 at 4004 West 41st Street near the Empire Mall, and Birmingham, Alabama on November 23 at 1672 Gadsden Highway. The remaining openings scatter across California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and Michigan through the month; the company has not published an exact date and address for every one, and advises checking its locations page. [Food World News — Raising Cane's plans 12 new restaurants in November (November 5, 2026)] [Men's Journal — One of America's most popular chicken chains is opening 12 new locations this month (November 5, 2026)]

The pace sits on a steep curve. Raising Cane's opened a then-record 118 restaurants in 2024 and 100 in 2025, passed its 1,000th location in March 2026 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and per Technomic data cited by Nation's Restaurant News, grew 2025 sales 10.6 percent to $5.48 billion on 913 restaurants at year-end, ranking 16th among US chains by sales, up 30 places from 2018, when it had $1.18 billion of sales and 400 locations. Texas holds 201 of its restaurants and California 147. Founder Todd Graves' stated target is more than 1,600 restaurants and a top-10 US brand ranking by the end of the decade; the chain's first London restaurant is planned for early 2027. [Food World News — Raising Cane's plans 12 new restaurants in November (November 5, 2026)] [Men's Journal — One of America's most popular chicken chains is opening 12 new locations this month (November 5, 2026)]

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