October 20, 2016: Specialty marketing for this Raising Cane’s in downtown Baton Rouge had to improvise after LSU coach Les Miles was abruptly panic-fired in a Les-Miles-fashion loss to Auburn.
In my Big South Trip of fall 2016, I got some new experiences in both hotels and food. After getting stuck in a traffic jam in Baton Rouge, by the time I reached the hotel I was pretty tuckered out. The only (non-bar) place to eat within walking distance was a chain I’d barely heard about called Raising Cane’s. Its specialty is chicken fingers.
And hot diggity daffodil, it was delicious. The sauce made it even better.
But Cane’s is young and Southern-born, and so pretty much a regional chain, until recently. The chain expanded to Omaha at the beginning of 2013 and there are now six in the area including one in Council Bluffs.
Its second location in Iowa will open at the end of the month. It’s in West Des Moines between I-35 and the south Wal-Mart, i.e. on a section of Mills Civic Parkway that’s had more businesses open this millennium than many towns in Iowa have had any millennium.