The company has demolished and is clearing the site, located on the property of Montgomery Mall.
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is raising competition with Chick-fil-A in Montgomeryville come 2025.
The Louisiana-born chicken fingers franchise is in process of demolishing and clearing the site of the former Bertucci’s at 860 Bethlehem Pike, also accessible via Montgomery Mall’s loop thoroughfare.
There will be no access to the property from Bethlehem Pike.
“We are excited to bring our ONE LOVE – craveable chicken finger meals – to Montgomeryville,” said Hannah Henderson, of Raising Cane’s. “We expect to begin construction in late July and aim to pen our doors in early 2025.”
Henderson said the Southern restaurant chain selected the Northeastern United States for expansion.
“We selected the trade area based on sales potential and strong retail, as we continue to building Raising Cane’s in the Philadelphia market,” she said.
Montgomery Township Supervisors approved a preliminary/final land development application in October 2023 in a 4-0 vote.
At that meeting, attorney Amee Farrell, representing Raising Cane’s Restaurant LLC, proposed demolition of the existing building and construct a new 2,913-square-foot restaurant, including a 1,098-square-foot covered outdoor seating area.
Raising Cane’s will also feature a double lane drive-through and parking.
The parcel is a 59,446-square-foot lease area at the 105.6-acre mall property, according to Farrell.
The development will eliminate one driveway access from the mall’s ring road; there will be modifications to the other two driveways, said Farrell.
Township planning commissioners recommended the board grant approval for the project in October.
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers menu, accessible here, features chicken fingers and fries combo meals, three-chicken-finger sandwiches, Texas toast, and cole slaw.
At present, it features Ice-T’s iced tea.
Raising Cane’s opened eight restaurants worldwide in April, including Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and one in Deptford, NJ.
In May, the company opened five more restaurants, including in Pleasant Hills, Pa.
Recently, Raising Cane’s announced it was opening its first store in Montgomery County in Willow Grove. Other upcoming restaurants in the region include Hamilton Boulevard in Allentown, Cottman & Roosevelt in Philadelphia,
The closest Raising Cane’s to the North Penn area is in Feasterville/Trevose.
