Raising Canes, one of the most popular fast food restaurants primarily found in the South, just opened up in Harrisburg. Selling only chicken tenders, chicken sandwiches, garlic bread, fries, and coleslaw, Canes’s limited menu seems to have zero effect on the volume of their customers. 

While it may seem tempting to get in one’s car and head straight there, as someone who absolutely loves Canes, I’d wait. 

I’d wait a while. 

It may seem ridiculous to say the volume of customers at some fast food restaurant is a pretty severe safety hazard, but it could not be more accurate. Even on a Wednesday at 5 o’clock in the evening, when most people get out of work, there was traffic four blocks away due to the sheer volume of people trying to get in line. 

Entire lanes were spilling out into the middle of the intersection, and people were driving not only erratically but aggressively. 

You would think: Who would risk other people’s safety for some chicken tenders and fries?

Apparently a lot of people. 

“I think Canes is really good, but I think they need to do a better job accounting for volume. There is not that much to do around here so they should have accounted for double what they prepared for,” says senior Aryam Agili Shaban. 

“I like Canes, but I couldn’t imagine turning into the middle of an intersection and blocking traffic just so I could wait in a three-hour line for some chicken,” says sophomore Easton Eberly. 

Many agree that the Canes did a bad job accounting for just how many people would show up even the day after the grand opening, and they needed more of a game plan as opposed to their improvised gesturing and yelling at cars. 

Overall, while Canes is easily the best fast food place, no fast food restaurant is worth getting into arguments about parking spots and darting into the middle of intersections to turn into an already overflowing entry lane.