Raising Cane’s begins process of building Boro restaurant

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Raising Cane’s begins process of building Boro restaurant

Chicken fingers place, part of national chain, to be built on old Applebee’s lot

A fence around the old Applebee's restaurant site on Highway 80 East went up last week, which will be demolished and a new Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers restaurant will be built. No construction schedule or opening date has been released. (JIM HEALY/staff)

Raising Canes Old Applebees.jpg — A fence around the old Applebee's restaurant site on Highway 80 East went up last week, which will be demolished and a new Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers restaurant will be built. No construction schedule or opening date has been released. (JIM HEALY/staff)

Last September, Statesboro City Council approved a setback variance allowing Raising Cane's to build a 2,700-square-foot restaurant on the 1.53-acre lot where Applebee's operated from 1999–2017. The site has been vacant since 2017.

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