Chicken fingers or chicken nuggets? Raising Cane’s opens near Chick-fil-A in Redlands

Chicken fingers or chicken nuggets? Raising Cane’s opens near Chick-fil-A in Redlands

With Tuesday’s opening of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, motorists are snaking through parking lots on both sides of Lugonia Avenue in Redlands in search of fried chicken.

The two-lane drive-thru is just a few hundred yards from Chick-fil-A, which serves chicken sandwiches, nuggets and strips across the street in Citrus Plaza.

Louisiana-based Raising Cane’s basically does one thing, chicken fingers accessorized by proprietary sauce, fries, Texas toast and lemonade.

It opened its first Inland restaurant in Riverside in October 2017, followed by a San Bernardino location in January 2018. Since then, the brand has grown throughout the area.

The dining room of the new, free-standing restaurant is decorated with Redlands memorabilia, not that diners are allowed to eat there in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. They can go inside for take-out orders.

Employees directed cars through a an obstacle course of yellow posts throughout the parking lot.

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That has been standard practice for months over at Chick-Fil-A, where the line of cars wraps behind a pad with Pet I and Five Below. It was as busy as usual at noon.

Raising Cane’s is at 1435 Lugonia Ave.

Information: raisingcanes.com

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