The Culinary Dropout at McEwen Northside in Franklin, Tennessee (4020 Aspen Grove Dr.), opened on September 10, 2025. It was the chain’s first restaurant in Tennessee and its 15th location nationally, set on the ground floor of the district’s Block E building in Cool Springs. MacDougall Pierce built out the restaurant space.

McEwen Northside is a mixed-use district of restaurants, shops, offices, and apartments, and the restaurant fits the pattern there: lunch, happy hour, dinner, and weekend brunch, with live music Thursday through Sunday.

Franklin was the second Culinary Dropout project for MacDougall Pierce. Earlier that year the company built the brand’s Indianapolis location at Nora Plaza, its first restaurant in the Midwest. The Franklin space was designed by Field Paoli Architects, the same firm behind the Flower Child in Indianapolis that MacDougall Pierce built earlier that year.

Restaurant work is a steady part of what MacDougall Pierce builds across the Midwest and Southeast. Planning a restaurant build or build-out in Middle Tennessee? Contact us to talk about your project.