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| - If a fast food joint has only four items on the menu then those items should be exemplary food items in every way. Cane's fails to reach even basic standards of interesting food. Chicken fingers, french fries, Cole slaw and Texas toast are all that's available. Like Cane's competitors, one meal variant is to order chicken fingers on a bun, but unlike competitors there is no option for a salad with chopped chicken on the menu. The most complimentary adjective that can be used to describe the food offered at Cane's is bland.
The primary offering, around which all meals are based and the business is built, are chicken fingers. While the fingers are fresh and hot, that's about all that can be said for them. They meet the criteria to qualify as chicken fingers but Cane's does nothing to make them interesting or appealing. The fingers are a bit undersized, and quite a bit smaller than those that can be found at similar chains elsewhere. The breading is crisp and not too greasy, but bland, flavorless and without any spices at all. These are the first chicken fingers that I felt that I had to salt to enjoy. They are served with "Cane's sauce," which is so prized that they charge extra if a customer wants more than one small dipping cup's worth. Sadly, the sauce tastes like a poor attempt to copy the dipping sauce from Zaxby's, and Cane's only avoids a recipe trademark lawsuit by making the sauce with more oil and corn syrup and less spice.
Despite the nearby billboard's claim that Cane's fries are fresh, the fries that I ate looked, felt and tasted like they came from a bag. Unlike most chicken finger places which sprinkle a seasoning blend over their fries, the fries at Cane's were served without any seasoning, not even salt. While crisp and not overly oily, the fries were as bland and uninteresting as the chicken.
Much like the chicken and fries, the Texas toast is offered up after performing the least amount of effort for a food item to qualify as Texas toast. It is a thick slice of white bread that has been briefly toasted (not grilled) and then spread with something that is close enough to butter to be acceptable. It has none of the charm of true Texas toast and lacks the crisp, grilled exterior and herb butter blends that makes Texas toast a favorite menu item in so many places. Instead of tossing this chunk of bland carbohydrates on top of a plate already piled of bland carbohydrates, I'd recommend asking to swap the toast for the coleslaw.
It's not that the coleslaw is anything spectacular, once again Cane's does the bare minimum for the foodstuff to qualify as the listed menu item, but after eating a bunch of bland fries and chicken the coleslaw will seem exciting. The 'slaw is little more than chopped cabbage and carrots (I couldn't taste any onion) tossed with some dressing, salt and pepper; but since everything else was served without any spices at all, the salt and pepper livens up an otherwise tasteless meal.
Overall, Cane's seems like little more than a knock-off version of the much better chicken strip joints of the south, most notably Zaxby's, right down to the movie posters and old signs on the walls. The food is bland, uninteresting and overpriced. Ten dollars is far too much to pay for undersized, bland chicken fingers, frozen fries and tasteless toast. If you're in the area and want some chicken there are better options just up the road where you can get far more flavor and many more choices for much less money.
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