Raising Cane’s to open 7 chicken restaurants in D-FW in 2021 and 85 nationwide Look out for the co-CEOs in a TV show called ‘Restaurant Recovery.’ The Caniac Combo at Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers is a popular order. Raising Cane's is opening seven new restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2021.(JASON JANIK / Special Contributor) Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers started as a college-town Louisiana fast-food joint named after the founder’s dog. Today, much of the action takes place in Plano, where a team runs the operations for Raising Cane’s 550 restaurants that employ 34,000 people. For the past four years, Raising Cane’s has opened about 60 new restaurants a year. That number will swell to 85 in 2021, says Todd Graves, Raising Cane’s founder and co-CEO.