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The sauce and texas toast are the only like phenomenal things, rest is okayish
I love Cane’s but have always said the sauce is the champion of the meal - that shit is good on bread, good on chicken, on fries, in soda, on roadkill, takes scratches off your car, fill a tub with it for a baptism, glue your toupee back on, disinfect a wound, oil up a squeaky rollercoaster, smear it on trees to mark your territory… yeah, it’s great. Second only to Popeyes’s blackened ranch. >

Will you adopt me? >

Yes, but only so we can star in a sitcom together called Raising Keen >

Ween Raising Keen also has a nice ring to it. Bonus points for ability to double as pornog. >

Without the sauce no one would go there >

I agree with this. It’s funny, I went and got canes yesterday, and I dunno when a large combo got up to 16 bucks but it feels almost like robbery at this point for the quality they’re putting out. >

It’s literally grocery store freezer section food warmed up with their sauce >

Very overrated. Tried it for the first time last year and it was not worth the wait. The line was an hour long. It’s fine, but not “wait for an hour to get a taste of heaven” fine. >

Why did you wait an hour?  Nothing is worth that type of wait.  
And if any restaurant is “that good” then I’d make a reservation.  If they don’t do reservations and they expect me to wait hours for the opportunity to give them money for a service they can kindly fuck off. >

It’s a fast food restaurant.. not a fancy one 😂 I was with my parents and we were in a long queue of cars. No turning back. >

That’s wild.  If a drive thru is like that I always just bail.  I feel like the only fast food place that has maintained it’s speed over the past two years is Taco Bell/Hell/Rats.  It’s what it is, but they are super quick. >

I’d never tried it before and they wanted me to. It was the only time I could because I don’t live at home so we just braved the line. Other than that I would not wait in a line that long unless I really really love the food >

Fair. Sauce carries 100% >

That toast fucks me up ngl >

I mean the sauce does kind of carry but everytime I go the chicken is always hot and crispy. So the crispy crunch along with the sauce is a recipe for success. And honestly I never eat Chicken tenders by themselves so the chicken not being amazing without sauce really doesn’t affect anything for me >

Agreed, but I'll go for the jugular here and call Raising Cane's out for what it truly is: complete trash. When your menu essentially has one item, chicken tenders, and you aren't able to get that right, you need to shut it all down. Tried this place twice just to make sure, and the second time was just the same as the first: soggy bland tenders, meh fries, and a sauce that was decent but couldn't end up saving the travesty that was the meal. Will never go back. >

You certainly went for the kill lol >

The sauce tastes like nothing and they give you only a tiny bit of it. You run out and you are eating bland ass chicken, fries and toast. >

I kinda agree, everytime I eat Cane's, it just leaves me wishing that I had Popeyes tenders instead. >

I like Popeyes too but I think Cane's is generally better IMO >

The recipe is nothing special but the quality of the chicken and their service is better than most fast food restaurants, and for sure beats Popeyes and KFC in those categories. The sauce is easily the best part. >

I disagree. Popeye's chicken is way better, though that's the only good thing there. Their sides are terrible. And KFC gravy is amazing, but everything else is mediocre 
I'm with OP on this one. I went to Cane's once and never went back because it was dry and bland.
I don't remember the sauce, but it was nothing special. >

Popeyes tenders are inconsistent on texture/tenderness of the actual chicken meat.  The outside is always crispy, but the chicken is not consistent. >

Never had their tenders. I typically get a 2 or 3 piece of their spicy with a breast and drumstick. >

Yeah their chicken is the best of all the chain places.  
I used to prefer Bojangles, but apparently in Tennessee they do not serve bone in chicken.  Only tenders.  A new one opened close-by and I was excited when during a massive load of errands to give it a try after having to fast for blood work.  I was as dumbfounded about it as the girl working there was who is still confused why they don’t serve actual whole pieces of chicken at a fried chicken chain. >

1000% overhyped. It’s not awful, it’s just meh fast food chicked. Even their sauce that people think is crack is just alright-ish. Totally underwhelmed by it. Makes me wonder who are the ones spreading the hype? Like, there’s no way they actually love it as much as they claim lol they just think other people love it and wanna fit in. I truly believe that to my core lol.
Again there’s nothing wrong with it in my opinion, it’s just been hyped waaayyy beyond what the reality is and I don’t understand why. >

Tried it for the first time as well, it was okay at best. I find most things people hype up to be average >

Blasphemy >

Its good. But i love near a local chain that just does it soooooo much better. And cheaper. >

I've had Raising Cane's exactly once, and while it wasn't bad, it also wasn't anything I had to go out of my way to have again. The one opening up in my city is going to have to compete with the Dave's Hot Chicken it's opening up across the street from, and Dave's is so damn good that it'd be hard to justify going elsewhere.
That Texas toast is legit amazing, though. >

Canes chicken and sauce is just so bland. Like the best thing they have is the Texas toast.  The breading is super thin and unless you eat there, it's soggy as hell by the time you get it home.  Wish they had a spicy chicken option or at least a variety of sauces. >

I love Cane’s I just don’t order it often cause it’s just tenders at the end of the day >

The tenders are mid but the sauce is divine. >

I have nothing to add but moral support. >

I'm from MD and moved to SC from 2019-2022 and in that time, tried all of the big chicken chains of the south. Raising Canes, Zaxby's and Bojangals. They were literally all gross lmao. Soggy and flavorless. The Popeyes and KFC that I grew up with are literally better and they aren't exclusive to the south >

Its pretty good but not amazing. Its like chic fil a. I like it but its not mind blowing >

Apparently worse service. Chikfila is hit/miss for some people (I love it), but the efficiency of their staff and drive-through is next level. >

Not unpopular, at least not with me.
I ate there once. That was my verdict.