Raising Cane’s: A Brief Review
Posted on July 31, 2006
Raising Cane’s is a new fast food restaurant that opened up in town last month. They’ve been around for 10 years (I think that’s what the cup said, their website is kind of uninformative) with locations primarily in the South and Midwest. Their focus is chicken fingers, with a menu consisting of: chicken fingers, and a chicken finger sandwich. Options for sides are: cole slaw, fries, and toast. A very limited menu. But what they do, they do well.
I opted for the Box Combo, which consists of four strips. fries, cole slaw, a piece of toast, and a cup of the Cane sauce. The strips were very good. They cut them from fresh chicken breasts on site and marinate them for 24 hours before preparation. The breading was soft, but not soggy, and not too thick or gummy. The fries were quite good. They weren’t too crisp or too wormy, and they were well-seasoned, which is a good thing because I didn’t have any ketchup. As for the cole slaw, it was very crisp and fresh; I’m guessing they prepare it on site as well. I am accustomed to (and prefer) a little sweeter slaw, but it was still very good. The toast was a little moist from the humidity inside the styrofoam container. The box has little vent holes at the four corners to counteract this, but some humidity is still there. Not exciting, but it’s a piece of toast.
Finally, there’s the sauce. The sauce was not nearly as Cane raising as I had expected. I thought it was going to be a hotter flavor, but as it turns out it is very mild, with a vaguely southwestern flavor. Very mellow.
There’s only one thing about the restaurant that bothers me. But it really bothers me. They have got to come up with a better trademark. It’s a dog. Wearing fucking sunglasses. That’s the best they could do. A picture of a fucking dog wearing sunglasses. That’s lamer than lame. I guess it’s the owners dog or something, and the restaurant is named for the dog or something, but still. It’s a fucking dog in sunglasses. It may as well be wearing a fucking Hawaiian shirt. Christ.
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lol nice. yeah I was like meh….
It is refreshing to see a different type of chicken finger though. When 90% of places use the extremely over breaded peggler ones, it was a nice change. I might have just been lucky, or it is how they do things. But it was prob the cleanest fry oil I have ever encountered at a place in lincoln. The fingers, fries, were really clean tasting. And the toast has a garlic essence.
The sauce is a chipolte flavored kinda southwersern thing. And I completely agree with the hiwaiian shirt idea.
Heh, nice thoughts about the dog.
I agree about the sauce as well. To me it tasted like some mixture of ketchup and mayo, sort of like that “secret sauce”/thousand island they put on Big Macs. I didn’t like it, and just ate the fingers plain.