Boynton Beach, FL. This Louisiana-based franchise won awards for diversity in hiring practices, being a great company to work for, and for benefiting the community so that’s why it has a solid fan base of people who grew up eating Cane’s chicken fingers.
But I didn’t....
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Boynton Beach, FL. This Louisiana-based franchise won awards for diversity in hiring practices, being a great company to work for, and for benefiting the community so that’s why it has a solid fan base of people who grew up eating Cane’s chicken fingers.
But I didn’t. In fact, I worked at Chick-fil-A eleven years ago so I measured them by CFA’s standards and also Popeyes and KFC, because that’s what I grew up with.
Cane’s chicken fingers are made with very fresh chicken breast with zero gristle! They’re famously “hand-dipped” and marinated overnight. I found the bite not crispy, but airy and light. CFA’s bite can be gummier, crispier and definitely saltier. If you want crispy I’d get the KFC chicken sandwich, whatever they do to that filet is magic.
Now for the Cane’s sauce: it’s salty, not sweet, and I detected chili powder, celery salt, and paprika, mmmaybe some Worcestershire (?) but you should do your own taste test. They only offer original or honey mustard sauce at Canes, and honey mustard sauce isn’t on the posted menu here so we received original sauce on our stuff. Their sauce has won awards! But again, maybe that’s because whoever gave the award grew up eating it. Me: I prefer the original CFA sauce, which is so popular you can find it at Publix.
As for atmosphere, Cane’s beat CFA by a long shot because CFA was slammed with the holiday crowd today.
This Cane’s had a holiday tree, lots of tables open, clean bathrooms and cool memorabilia on the walls (sports stuff, etc.). Music was BTS, Johnny Cash, Maroon 5, Pharrell Williams, so pretty diverse. Staff and patrons were also diverse.
I’d come here again.