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| - I'm not sure what to say about Raising Cain's. They seem to have an identity crisis. Is the restaurant Cain's (in big letters) or Raising Cain's (with the word "raising" in ultra-small letters?). Why use the word "raising" if it really isn't important as a part of the name? Yes I know it was somebody's dog's name. Memo: nobody gets that.
I accidentally found a location tonight (the one I'm reviewing) after seeing a billboard sign. Kudos, your advertising dollars were well spent, I guess, by placing a billboard right over the store I probably would have seen anyway. I never heard of them so I thought it might be a good alternative to KFC, as I had a major chicken urge.
Turns out that it looked a LOT like stereotypical fast food restaurants. And it turned out is is. With one exception. While most fast food places have a very diverse menu with one or two featured favorites, Cain's does not. Their menu, in fact, is downright weird. The girl who greeted our bewildered looks simplified it ... "we got chicken, chicken and nothing but chicken". Yeah, but only in one form. What they call "fingers". Can you order a box of 2 or 4 or 6 or 8 fingers with a side of slaw or fries? Nope. You get your "choice" of one of 4 packages that they're selected for you that have a mandatory drink and an extremely limited choice of peripheral items. We wanted to take about 6 -8 pieces of chicken home with a side of enough slaw to comfortably feed 2. Nope, can't do it. The best we could do is buy that many extra sides of chicken "fingers" at over a buck each and a pound of slaw (way too much) and total price way too expensive.
Turns out the girl at the counter was creative. We could substitute the hell out of any of the pre-determined combos, but we would only end up saving about 80 cents by doing so. At that point nothing looked good.
But it was late, we were hungry and it looked like an entire high school's sports team had just arrived so we each chose the box with 3 chicken "fingers", subbed slaw for fries, deleted the drink and accepted the so-called Texas Toast.
Got it home and opened the box. First impression was it was hard to believe how tiny everything was (except the toast, which was huge and probably there to delude you into thinking you had a filling meal. The "fingers" were just that. The only thing that kept them under any consideration was that they seemed to be made from real chicken meat rather than the ground up chicken paste some of the other fast food places are known for serving. But the "fingers" themselves were dry, very bland and had too much breading.
Adding to the tiny "fingers" was a slaw container about the size of a shot glass. Really? Cabbage cost you so much you can't serve enough to have your customers get a real taste of it?
The "toast" was, well, a fat slice of bread, mushy and pretty tasteless. And the final thing, a small tub of dipping sauce, tasted great but I prefer my chicken to taste good enough that it doesn't need dipping.
Bottom line: as you were folks, nothing to see here. They don't even serve real chicken parts like wings and breasts and legs. Dull. Boring. Not worth going back. Oh and my rating? It started as 3 and dropped to 2 mostly because I got a nasty tummy ache right after eating. Not saying anything for sure about what caused it but that is only the second time I ever had a negative food reaction ever in any Phoenix-area restaurant.
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