When I started this blog section on reviews, I promised myself that I would not review chain restaurants, especially fast-food ones, if I can reasonably avoid it. On reviewing Cane’s #1, I cannot resist temptation. I do so, however, with the understanding that this is the first Raising Cane’s and the one dear to my heart.
On many a hot, Louisiana day during my studies at LSU, I was forced to make a decision. Should I dart fervently from shade tree to shade tree after leaving the air-conditioned safety of Himes Hall or should I make a relatively fast dart across the scorching Parade Grounds, dodging frisbee throwers or sunbathers. I say relatively because I am never really fast. That was part of the problem. Go slow knowing what was up ahead or go fast, chancing a meltdown into a pile of assorted lipids and proteins. Often I chanced it, with the full knowledge that the journey would suck, but I would enjoy the arrival.
Hyperbole, you say. Nay, the sun down here can get really hot. Also, the end of that journey was a steaming box of deliciousness reserved for Mt. Olympus, if the Greek gods had Southern accents and loved Chicken. I am talkin’ about the king of Northgate, Raising Cane’s #1. The brain child of LSU alums, Todd Graves and Craig Silvey. There, they created the beginnings of a national fast food chain that is beginning to sweep the nation.
