Raising Cane’s has more than 800 locations in 41 states. Credit: Photo via Simone Hogan/Shutterstock
Tampa Bay’s ongoing chicken tender war has another competitor.

Raising Cane’s already has four Bay area locations and will open another in Largo where a Red Lobster closed in 2024, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

The Louisiana-born chain known for tenders, Cane’s sauce and Texas toast, plans to demolish the Red Lobster and open a double drive-thru at 10500 Ulmerton Rd. in the Largo Plaza.

Locations in Lutz, St. Pete, and two in Clearwater are already open.

The chain with more than 800 locations in 41 states is named for Cane, a Labrador Retriever belonging to founder Todd Graves.

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This article appears in May 29 – Jun 4, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...