First Look: Raising Cane's opens Nashville flagship
Raising Cane’s is bringing its fan-favorite chicken tender meals to the heart of Music City.
The quick-serve chain has opened a "one-of-kind," two-level flagship restaurant on Nashville’s iconic Broadway street. It's one of 100 new locations Raising Cane's plans to open across several new markets in 2024.
Occupying the Baxter Building, a historic four-story building built in 1891, the Nashville flagship pays homage to country music legends with signature city-inspired flair from local artists and designers such as Hatch Show Print Shop, Ranger Stitch, James Willis and more.
Walking through the doors, customers will be greeted by a statue of Cane III – Raising Cane's yellow Labrador mascot and namesake. The interior elements include a feature wall made of 1.2 million colorful rhinestones that create the design of a cowboy riding a bucking horse, a Johnny and June Cash tribute booth for photo moments, a Loretta Lynn-signed sequin top and one of her prized guitars. It also features Cane's merchandise exclusive to Nashville, including T-shirts, hoodies, hats, stickers and keychains
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More than 250 disco balls hang throughout the new location in a nod to the chain’s first restaurant, where owner and founder Todd Graves hung a disco ball to cover a skylight. The ball has since become a design element in every restaurant since.
Other key restaurant features include:
•Eye-catching seating, including booths embroidered by Nashville local Ranger Stitch, booths with pickup truck tailgates as seat backs, plus country legend inspired and vinyl record stools;
•An 8-foot tall custom-painted horse that leaps the stair rail and two 5-foot wide custom belt buckles painted with the Nashville skyline, country icons, and Cane's symbols, weighing over 100 pounds each;
•A hanging art installation from perceptual artist Michael Murphy, who used 75 individual steel pieces of various designs to create a three-dimensional number "one" and "heart," in honor of Raising Cane's “One Love” slogan; and
•Country music star memorabilia.
The Nashville flagship opens exactly a year after the brand entered New York and opened its global flagship in Times Square. The chain's other flagships include South Beach (Miami), Chicago and Las Vegas.
Founded in Baton Rouge, La., Raising Cane’s operates more than 800 restaurants in more than 40 states.