Would you drive 30 minutes to a Raising Cane’s? We checked out the region’s first.

Frances Craig drove her seventh-grade son Fischer Smith nearly an hour from Lincolnton, North Carolina, to Rock Hill on Tuesday for chicken tenders with a side of memories.

“In 20 years, he’ll be able to look back and be like, hey, you remember that time that we froze our behinds off out in Rock Hill?” Craig said.

By mid-morning, it looked like half of Charlotte ventured to the new Raising Cane’s restaurant off Dave Lyle Boulevard. The chicken finger chain from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is known for its indiscriminate dipping sauce — TikTokers plunge chicken, fries, toast or half their forearms into it…

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