And a business built largely around car dependence.
Before I left CA, I remember seeing one of these fucking places opening up in my area. Yes, the line was very long and remained so for months every time I went past it.
Why?
I really, really don’t understand treat hogs that can wait an hour or longer for that, sucking in exhaust all the while.
I will never understand how someone can justify waiting in their car for over 40 minutes for fried chicken. Not to mention the parking lot is empty! How do they not just think “I’ll just park and go in”?
Seriously I don’t even wait at nicer restaurants for an hour. I’ll find something else.
It truly is car brain, including the car brain belief that drive thru is always faster.
As a former drive thru worker, I can tell you that that is untrue, but the drive thru chuds were pretty much definitively more aggressive, more obnoxious, and more likely to further delay the transaction by being boomer assholes and inspecting their food and making petty demands if anything is even slightly out of place (or if they’re fishing for a refund and lying).
Hey, also former drive thru worker! Unless drive thru was pretty much empty it was almost always guaranteed to be a longer wait. Exact same experience as you, people took longer getting situated in their cars slowing everyone else down
And god help me how in the living hell do you wait for over 10 minutes in a freaking drive thru only to get to the menu and say “uhmmmm what do I waaaant…”. Ffs it’s a MCDONALDS. You’re going to order the number 3 and a diet coke like you do all the time Sharon.
And god help me how in the living hell do you wait for over 10 minutes in a freaking drive thru only to get to the menu and say “uhmmmm what do I waaaant…”
My most common and hated experience every day in drive thru:
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"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH* "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH*minute or two passes, horns honking
“ARE YOU THERE?! HELLO?! HELLO?!”
FUCK.
that’s my hometown.
haven’t been there in years, but i used to walk there a lot. i typically just had to walk on the grass or in the ditch next to the road. then i had to plan my entire route around where i could cross the roads. very very few places to do that, and almost none that were safe.
got harassed by the cops once because i was walking at night with a flashlight in that town. walking is so uncommon there that it’ll get the police called on you.
also, more town than city.
same kind of crazy line formed there when they got chick-fil-a and portillo’s. it’s in Wisconsin, so they got chick-fil-a late and portillo’s early in their respective spreads across the country.
Ha sorry, but I’m not surprised you had such difficulty walking. I also grew up in the Midwest where if you’re walking people assume you must just be poor and can’t afford to drive. Weird weird culture
I was on a beach vacation in Florida and the young dude serving me ice cream at the ice cream shop heard I was from Austin and said “I heard y’all have Raising Cane’s there!” Like WTF was that? I can only assume that was the brain dead Florida culture I’ve heard so much about
Oh dude, so many fuckin times I have people want to talk to me about chain fuckin restaurants. “Oh I hear we’re getting an olive garden!” “Did you see the Texas Roadhouse just opened”, oh can’t wait!
Who gives a shit that yet another chain is opening. How empty is your life where an olive garden opening is something you’re actually excited about? Go find a local Italian place that serves real Italian food. Find the local chicken place. Guaranteed it’s about the same price as chains now, and the family running it will be much happier for your business than the suits in charge of the chain.
When I was a kid, sonic commercials aired regularly for about a decade, even with the closest one being several hours and multiple states away. In late high school, I finally visited the south and was so excited to go to sonic. What a disappointment. Krispy Kreme actually completely lived up to the hype, but eating a donut kind of ruins my day.
Same with donuts, my stomach kind of turns, and the rest of the day I usually have indigestion
I guess that was a while back? Cause I live in FL now and we have them
So does canes have to pay the city to have that cop at drivethru or is the taxpayer going to pay for that?
Good question, I saw the opening of canes in another town that had cops directing traffic in the inlet, probably 3 or so cars working just to get people their (honestly incredibly mediocre) fried chicken.
A job that could have been done by anyone in a high vis vest and some traffic control training. But i guess canes probably argued the road is city property so it should be the city’s problem, even though it is canes business practices causing the problem.
People’s argument:“Yeah m’aurica, those fat bastards”
But hey Europe, do you remember post covid when the first fastfoot reopened? Yeaaaah exactly, the same happend every where in the world post covid…
We are just addicted to processed food, sugar and whatever ! Before laughing about our neighbors, take some time and look at your own plates see if they are all shiny and such.
Nah the argument is that most of those people shouldn’t have needed to make the journey by car if the town was built properly.
Yeah so every town was improperly build post covid?
That’s just an opening… after a few days everything is going to be normal again.
Yes. Literally everywhere was designed wrong for covid. It is not designed for that. What a stupid argument.
Happened in ABQ as well
I’m not familiar with Raising Cane’s, but the same thing happens at any Chick-fil-A near Seattle (we don’t have any in Seattle proper). It doesn’t even have to be a new opening. Meal time on a weekday? Chick-fil-A has a line around the block.
I have heard of some problematic locations but for the most part Chik-fil-a is a well oiled machine, sounds like that store needs more training and/or staff.
There are times when joining a 12 car line at CFA is still faster than waiting for the 1 car in front of you at burger king, and there have been times my car hasn’t even been stationary until I’m at the window collecting my order!
I’ve never experienced that. Sure would be nice. They do make good chicken.
That one in Bellevue that they’ll wrap around the block and onto 405? And no one cares that they’re just stopped on the freeway blocking lanes for fucking chicken?
This should be illegal. Drive thrus need capacity like a dining room. How is it fair for public infrastructure to be blocked so a private company can sell chicken? It is also a massive safety hazard.
That’s the main one I’m thinking of, yes. What a terrible location for a place so busy.
I always do Ezells now when I crave chicken. Zero need to go to chick fil a in this town
I know this is considered blasphemy, but I don’t think they’re that great. I don’t really have a favorite chicken place.
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To quote a guy overheard complaining about Cane’s in an airport: “bland white people food”
Raising Cane’s is such a garbage operation. HQ staff had to help run some stores to meet opening dates. They couldn’t get enough staff to open on time because “no one wants to work anymore.”
In my town there is usually a long drive thru line for Raising Canes, but it snakes around the parking lot rather than the stroad. The few times I go there I park, walk in, and walk out with my food before the person who would have been ahead of me at the drive thru has even ordered.
That’s like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.
TIL the word “stroad”. Thanks. I just looked it up, and it’s so much the norm in almost every place I’ve lived that it was hard for me to even grasp the concept at first. Because that’s practically every road. (Although I must say I disagree with how they define street versus road because nobody actually uses those words as being especially different from one another in real life.)
FWIW I’ve always intuitively held the same distinction. Streets are walkable and have stuff on them, cars optional but at low speeds if they are there. Roads are not walkable and link up areas for car use.
if only there was some other way to transport and have 30 people be in one place at a time
*a typical American town
I would quit the first day as worker there seeing that line.
I count roughly 15 cars in line, which could be as few as 15 people. All that space taken up for such few people…
Mid ass chicken.
I wouldn’t even give it mid. I’ve had better frozen tenders.
Thank you. I was wondering wtf Raising Cane’s is.
