Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers will promote physical activity and safety when it opens its sixth restaurant in Hilliard, Ohio, Oct. 19.
In partnership with the Columbus Public Health's Healthy Places Program, Raising Cane's Hilliard location is installing five-foot sidewalks in front of its 2,700 square-foot building, which have shown to be more walkable for pedestrians, as well as a designated crosswalk from the public sidewalk to the front door, and bike racks.
According to Christine Green, healthy places coordinator, the purpose of the Healthy Places Program is to create an environment where people can walk and bike more within the city of Columbus. By creating better community design to increase physical activity, the city and its corporate partners, such as Raising Cane's, are trying to help decrease obesity and chronic disease.
Raising Cane's also has installed detectable warning pads where walkways meet vehicular traffic to protect pedestrians, and worked closely with Dublin-based M+A Architects to design and incorporate the key health-and-safety-oriented elements into its restaurant design.
Raising Cane's Ohio (RCO) Limited, the Columbus-based Raising Cane's franchisee, owns and operates five additional locations throughout the Columbus area. The Columbus Raising Cane's is one of the only companies in the area to incorporate and fund all of the recommendations made by Columbus Public Health into its building design.
Raising Cane's Hilliard restaurant is a free-standing building with enough room for 15 cars in the drive-thru lane. It will seat approximately 55 guests and employ 50 crew members.
