What you're looking at is a policy failure on multiple levels:

1. Car-dependency in general, both in terms of transportation planning (making a stroad) and zoning (allowing the business to have a drive-thru to begin with).
2. Failing to validate the capacity of the site design before approving it (yes, I know this was opening day -- but several drive-thrus near me overflow out onto the street every day, even after having been open for years, so this kind of failure is definitely a thing!).
3. Failure to have the police show up to clear the traffic and ticket everyone blocking the road (possibly as well as the business itself).

That's like 30 people in line. It takes half a block and a lane of the stroad to fit 30 people.

Raising Cane's did this when they opened their store by me. They sent out mailers for free meals and stuff on opening day, the lines stretched around the block and they had police handling traffic. It's marketing fluff to make a ruckus in a new market.

Surprise surprise once people had to pay, I've never seen lines like this again there.

FUCK.

that's my hometown.

haven't been there in years, but i used to walk there a lot. i typically just had to walk on the grass or in the ditch next to the road. then i had to plan my entire route around where i could cross the roads. very very few places to do that, and almost none that were safe.

got harassed by the cops once because i was walking at night with a flashlight in that town. walking is so uncommon there that it'll get the police called on you.

also, more town than city.

same kind of crazy line formed there when they got chick-fil-a and portillo's. it's in Wisconsin, so they got chick-fil-a late and portillo's early in their respective spreads across the country.

Mid ass chicken.

So does canes have to pay the city to have that cop at drivethru or is the taxpayer going to pay for that?

Disgusting asphalt desert dystopia

Raising Cane's is such a garbage operation. HQ staff had to help run some stores to meet opening dates. They couldn't get enough staff to open on time because "no one wants to work anymore."

To quote a guy overheard complaining about Cane's in an airport: "bland white people food"

In my town there is usually a long drive thru line for Raising Canes, but it snakes around the parking lot rather than the stroad. The few times I go there I park, walk in, and walk out with my food before the person who would have been ahead of me at the drive thru has even ordered.

*a typical American town

And a business built largely around car dependence.

I'm not familiar with Raising Cane's, but the same thing happens at any Chick-fil-A near Seattle (we don't have any in Seattle proper). It doesn't even have to be a new opening. Meal time on a weekday? Chick-fil-A has a line around the block.

I would quit the first day as worker there seeing that line.

I was on a beach vacation in Florida and the young dude serving me ice cream at the ice cream shop heard I was from Austin and said "I heard y'all have Raising Cane's there!" Like WTF was that? I can only assume that was the brain dead Florida culture I've heard so much about

Happened in ABQ as well