Wichita will soon get a new chicken finger restaurant whose owners plan to offer a lower-priced alternative to Raising Cane’s — the popular chain that entered the Wichita market last summer.
Eliot McDonald and his business partner Henry Panameno are the owners of The Coop Chicken Fingers, and they opened their first store adjacent to the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa, just before Thanksgiving.
Their next two restaurants, though, will open in Kansas: The first is taking over the former Taco John’s building at 420 E. 30th Ave. in Hutchinson and should open in early May, McDonald said. Then, the owners will turn their attention to Wichita: They’ve signed a lease to take over the former Schlotzsky’s building at 1140 S. Rock Road, which has been vacant since July 2022…