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Granbury’s new Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant, set to open July 16, is looking to hire 65 employees for multiple positions.

The Louisiana-based restaurant chain has been named one of the “Top 100 Best Places to Work in 2019” by “Glassdoor,” a website where current and former employees anonymously review companies and their management.

The Granbury restaurant is located at 1041 E. U.S. Hwy. 377 near Panda Express. When it opens, it will be the 146th Raising Cane’s in Texas and the 447th in 27 states.

Job interviews will be scheduled through July 3 and will take place at the Best Western Granbury Inn & Suites at 1517 Plaza Dr. N.

Those interested are encouraged to apply online Stevenson bought the building at the corner of East Pearl and North Crockett streets from Mary Lou Watkins, former owner of the Nutt House Hotel and a well-known figure in Granbury’s history.

“At times we didn’t know whether we were unemployed or self-employed,” Collerain said. “But we survived.”

The pair’s friendship began when Stevenson went to work at a 300-bed hospital in Dallas where Collerain was director. The two thought they would be great as business partners, Collerain said.

In addition to operating the Nutshell, the women did consulting work, helping to make small businesses profitable, according to Collerain.

Collerain said she will host a celebration of life for Stevenson at her Granbury home from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, June 22. She said that Stevenson’s family consists of a stepsister, a brother-in-law, two nephews and a cousin.

The restaurant will go on under Collerain’s leadership, the co-owner said.

“We were both getting to a point where we didn’t have to babysit the business,” she said. “We didn’t have to go and stay eight hours a day. We could start to have a life of our own.”

In fact, Collerain started a new chapter in her life last December. She got married to a longtime friend whose wife had died.

Collerain said that people always knew where they stood with Stevenson.

“She never held it back,” she said of her opinionated friend.

Stevenson was “loyal to a fault,” Collerain said, and was a frequent rescuer of animals.

“Her friends and her animals were her life,” Collerain said. “She’s really going to be missed.”

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