{"id":200011,"date":"2025-09-04T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200011\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:46:11","slug":"raising-canes-has-outgrown-its-dallas-support-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200011\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Cane\u2019s has outgrown its Dallas support center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Raising Cane\u2019s has experienced quite a growth spurt throughout the past decade or so, and broke into the top 20 restaurant brands by domestic sales last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/top-500-restaurants\/raising-cane-s-the-fastest-chicken-jockey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Per Technomic data<\/a>, Raising Cane\u2019s finished 2024 at No. 18 with a 32% year-over-year sales increase to just under $5 billion. Its unit count jumped by nearly 14% year-over-year. To illustrate its recent growth, the chain was No. 46 in 2018 with $1.18 billion in sales and 400 locations, and expects to finish this year with nearly 1,000 locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Since then, Cane\u2019s has leapfrogged legacy chicken players like Boston Market, Wingstop, El Pollo Loco, Church\u2019s Texas Chicken, Bojangles, Zaxbys, and, last year, KFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Don\u2019t expect the chain to rest on its laurels anytime soon. The company has a stated goal of breaking into the top 10, reaching $10 billion in sales, and opening 1,600 restaurants \u201cin all major cities and new international locations around the world\u201d by the end of this decade, as <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/fast-casual\/raising-cane-s-10-billion-ambition-is-guided-by-its-past\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">founder\/owner Todd Graves recently outlined<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">To support these ambitions, the company is moving into a new support center in 2026. The new office will be located on Legacy Drive in Plano, Texas, and will quadruple its current office space less than 2 miles away. It also has the capacity for \u201cthousands\u201d of support office employees, compared to its current 650 support office employees, the company said.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/fast-casual\/cava-adds-chicken-shawarma-to-the-menu\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CAVA adds Chicken Shawarma to the menu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve always had an unconventional approach to growing our brand and at the center of it all are our crewmembers through our restaurant-first approach. We make it a point to reward, recognize and retain our crew through industry-leading programs, compensation, and benefits packages,\u201d Raising Cane\u2019s co-CEO and chief operating officer AJ Kumaran said in a statement. \u201cWe see ourselves becoming a top 10 U.S. restaurant brand by the end of the decade and are looking for exceptional crew \u2014 both at the restaurant and support office level \u2014 to join us on this journey as we continue building exceptional leaders across a variety of roles and functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The new support center announcement comes as Raising Cane\u2019s plans its entry into the United Kingdom in late 2026, with several locations initially planned in London. The company also plans to open a London Support Office and hire a president of Raising Cane\u2019s U.K., along with several other executives to support the market\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Raising Cane\u2019s opened a record 100 restaurants last year and plans to do the same again this year, ending 2025 with nearly 1,000 Restaurants in the United States the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/fast-casual\/noodles-company-to-explore-possible-sale\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Noodles &amp; Company to explore possible sale<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Contact Alicia Kelso at <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#1b5a777278727a35507e7768745b72757d7469767a35787476\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raising Cane\u2019s has experienced quite a growth spurt throughout the past decade or so, and broke into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-200011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115147046060723953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}