Dining Around Town: Casual Chain Crawl @ Raising Cane's (Belle Meade)

For 2026 we are introducing a new category of our popular Dining Around Town Series called... Casual Chain Crawl with Cristina!

Since this group began, we have consciously tried to avoid be chain restaurants in favor of supporting small and local businesses. However with such a multicultural group, it is not surprising that multiple members have expressed interest in checking out some of the most popular American chain restaurants as a cultural dining experience of sorts.

One of our most passionate members, "Italian Cristina", has volunteered to host this series and has researched and hand selected the locations which are all over the greater Nashville area.

For this event, we are heading to... Raising Cane's!

ABOUT from web:
"We serve only the most craveable chicken finger meals. It’s our ONE LOVE.

A Restaurant that only serves Chicken Fingers? The business plan received the lowest grade in a college class because the professor said it wouldn’t work. When he tried to get loans, the banks said no, but Todd wasn’t giving up.

Todd travels to Los Angeles to work as a boilermaker at an oil refinery, grinding through 90-hour weeks to raise the money to fuel his Restaurant dream. Learning from a fellow boilermaker that he can earn even more money commercial fishing, Todd travels to Alaska and camps out on the tundra for a month before landing a job on a boat to fish sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, working 20-hour days in harsh conditions.

Todd returns home with his hard-earned money. Coupled with an SBA loan, he has enough to start building his Restaurant. Renovations begin on an old building at the North Gates of Louisiana State University. Todd, along with friends and a few contractors, does a lot of the work himself.

During the renovation, Todd chips away at a stucco wall to discover an old painted mural of a bread bakery. He took it as a literal sign that this was going to work. The design later becomes the inspiration for Raising Cane’s logo and is why each Cane’s has a mural.

When coming up with the name for his Restaurant in 1996, Todd originally planned to call it “Sockeye’s” after the salmon he fished in Alaska. Luckily, a friend suggested he name it after his yellow Labrador Retriever, Raising Cane, who was always with Todd at the construction site. Since that time, Todd has continued the tradition – meet our namesake and mascots.

After finally getting the cash registers to work, Raising Cane’s opened on August 28th, 1996. It was after 9 p.m. and Todd goes out on the street to wave Customers in... business was so good, the Restaurant stayed open ‘til 3:30 a.m.!"

MENU:
Menu - Raising Cane's

I heard these are Cane's Secret Menu items:

• If you don't want breaded chicken, you can order them "Naked!"
• "Butter on Both Sides" toast
• No Coleslaw - substitute coleslaw for extra fries OR toast
• Honey Mustard sauce instead of the Cane's Sauce

PARKING:
Lot parking

LOCATION:
*Multiple Locations*
36 White Bridge Pike
Nashville, TN 37205

As a reminder if your plans change, please update your RSVP.