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Washington Twp: Raising Cane’s Opens Feb 4 Tues and 7 Brew Coffee Dev Starting

Washington Twp: Raising Cane’s Opens Feb 4 Tues and 7 Brew Coffee Dev Starting

The Black Horse Pike in Washington Township has 2 new business milestones this week, with the brand new Raising Cane’s Chicken Finger restaurant set to open on Tuesday February 4th, and across the street the area’s first 7 Brew drive-thru coffee shop is starting construction.

I stopped in at both locations yesterday, and even got a quick tour of the new Raising Cane’s restaurant. 

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Raising Cane’s is a quick casual restaurant featuring chicken fingers and a variety of delicious sides.  In Gloucester County they recently opened locations in Glassboro and Deptford.  The stores are all very similar but each has it’s own variations… for example the patio area for the upcoming Turnersville Raising Cane’s has an overhead roof.

7 Brew is new to our area and are a growing franchise coffee brand with over 300 locations mostly on the East Coast.  They have an innovative design for a two-lane drive-thru only coffee shop, offering a variety of specialty coffee drinks as well as energy, fizz, teas, lemonade, smoothies, shakes and more.

Raising Cane’s Turnersville

I’ve been covering progress on all of the new South Jersey Raising Cane’s locations since the area first became aware of them, with 42Freeway first writing about this Washington Township location almost exactly 2 years ago…  January 27th, 2023.

The location on the Black Horse Pike was previously a Pep Boys store and Service Center.  The Raising Cane’s project required the complete demolition of the building, and the construction of an all new restaurant building featuring multiple drive-thru lanes.

While the property does not sit on the exact corner of Ganttown, an interesting twist is it does have a dedicated access lane to side street which should provide easy access for the neighborhoods behind the store.

The construction inside is very similar to Glassboro and Deptford. As mentioned this Turnersville store is unique in Gloucester County as the outdoor patio area is much more significant with a fenced in area supporting probably 20 different seats…  and a roof over the outdoor patio area.

Inside Raising Cane’s always decorates a portion of the walls with local oriented items… Washington Twp is represented as well as a few other areas school districts.

Washington Township born Cheryl Reeve is highlighted also… she is the head coach and President of the Minnesota Lynx WNBA team.

Raising Cane’s likes to have big Grand Opening events and I’m actually a little ahead of the press release with this posting (I wanted to combine it with 7 Brew).  Assuming they follow the pattern of Glassboro and Deptford, on opening day I would expect gifts for the first 100 customers, a “Cane’s for a year” giveaway to 20 randomly drawn winners, ribbon cutting ceremonies and more. 

Openings are typically set for 9am but enthusiastic customers typically start lining up hours earlier!

7 Brew Drive Thru Coffee

7 Brew coffee is also being developed on the Black Horse Pike, almost directly across from the new Raising Cane’s within the Ganttown Plaza shopping center (Harbor Freight, Fun City and more). The closest locations are in York and Reading Pennsylvania.

Construction fencing went up just yesterday at the front of the shopping center, ahead of the construction.

7 Brew has a unique operating model where it is drive-thru only, with a small “stand” building supporting 2 wraparound lanes.

42Freeway has the site plans for this location, and the drive-thru is configured in a more traditional wraparound building design, with two fully dedicated lanes.

An interesting aspect of the development of the building is it is a modular construction, meaning the building is developed offsite within a factory/warehouse.  On-site construction includes developing a foundation and connecting to utilities, but once that foundation and utilities are ready they are able to just drop the building in place.

This is a very similar construction model to what the Checker’ss hamburger restaurants have done.

We’ll have a lot more time to cover 7 Brew as they get closer to opening, but as mentioned they are primarily a drink retailer focused on coffees, teas, shakes and other specialty drinks… In a wide array of flavors.

I’m not completely certain on whether food is offered such as prepared pastries and donuts.  It’s really not mentioned on the website but in looking at reviews from other locations, it does seem that they offer some quick serve food items.

Links and Location

Raising Cane’s Turnersville – Opening Feb 4, 2025
5241 Route 42
Turnersville NJ, 08012

Location Website

7 Brew Drive Thru Coffee
Ganttown Plaza
5200 E Black Horse Pike
Turnersville NJ

Website