Raising Cane's has opened four Massachusetts locations in the past year (Framingham, Saugus, Fall River, and Worcester), and its Enfield, CT store drew huge opening-day lines just over our state line. Yet there is still not a single Raising Cane's anywhere in western Massachusetts.

The closest location to the roughly 460,000 people in the Springfield metro sits in another state. Students, families, and workers across the Pioneer Valley are driving to Enfield, Connecticut just to get their Cane's.

We're asking Raising Cane's to bring a location to western Massachusetts. The market is here:

• UMass Amherst has about 24,000 undergraduates (the largest student body in the state), and the Five College Consortium (UMass, Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith) totals roughly 31,000 students.
• Springfield (~155,000) is the largest city in western New England; Chicopee (~55,000) is second.
• High-traffic, drive-thru-ready corridors are everywhere: Route 9 in Hadley, Boston Road in Springfield, the Holyoke Mall area, Memorial Drive in Chicopee, and Riverdale Street in West Springfield.

If you'd visit a western Mass Cane's, or you're just tired of driving to Connecticut for it, add your name. Let's show Raising Cane's that the Pioneer Valley is ready.

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