OCALA, FL (352Today.com) – Raising Cane’s, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based fast-food chicken chain popular enough to have inspired its own “Saturday Night Live” sketch, will reportedly open its first Ocala location early next year.
The 30-year-old company has become a favorite in recent years, due as much to its chicken tenders and sauce being featured in countless viral “food porn” videos as for their widely touted tenderness and flavor, and continues its ambitious national expansion, including here in Florida.
The new Ocala restaurant will be located in the Ocala West shopping center at 2410 SW College Road. This new addition to the area’s food choices has been in the works for some time–the group associated with the franchise apparently started lobbying the City of Ocala to lower the minimum number of parking spaces required for the shopping center so it could build there back in November 2024.