Who has the skinny on Cane’s vs Bailey’s?

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They were to me, identical in menu and quality, but Cane’s building was new & nicer (may have rehabbed

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Bailey's was better. It is literally a story on location wins. Canes was much easier to get in and out of. Bailey's was a bitch - especially if you were coming from Highland.

Additional things that did Baileys in was that their employees gave everything away for free. Seriously... Everything. If you knew someone there you were getting free stuff. They also would trade other businesses for a bunch of food. So the employees would trade a bunch of chicken and fries for daiquiris and drinks. The land also became valuable which was also the undoing oh Noah's right there - although Baileys closed about a year and a half before Noah's sold out.

Exact same menu but Bailey’s was definitely better. They actually seasoned their chicken.

I remember with Baileys they ran an add in every Tiger Weekly. $4.25 for 5 fingers, bread, fries, and drink. Was a great deal. Later we had friends that worked at Baileys and they would hook it up. But canes would be packed and Baileys dead.
I don't know why canes did so much better. The food tasted the same. Baileys had slightly different bread using normal shaped Texas toast. Also they pushed a honey mustard sauce while caes had their famous sauce. Back then canes sauce was unlimited. You pumped it yourself from a sauce dispenser.

One slow Saturday long ago, my husband, BIL, and I did a chicken tender tasting. Canes, Baileys, Popeyes and Churches. No Zaxbys here at that time.

Baileys came in second to Popeyes. We all liked it better than Canes. Sad that it was the loser in the head-to-head on Highland.

(Churches…yack.)

Thanks all. While they apparently had operating issues and a poorer location, I remember them being a cheaper Cane’s clone. Seems like now, if someone could open a consistent chain, but at a lower price-point, they would print money.

Piccadilly had them barnyard pimp chicken fingers. Three tenders was a meal. Nobody was eating six of those

My roommate worked at Baileys and used to bring bags of chicken home after his shift. My assumption is we bankrupted the place

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The Reville published an article comparing the two : tenders , toast, sauce , and slaw

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They still have it available to read LINK

The article was in the Reveille about 5 months before Baileys closed.

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Additional things that did Baileys in was that their employees gave everything away for free. Seriously... Everything. If you knew someone there you were getting free stuff

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If you rolled by close to closing, you didn't have to know anyone. They'd cram that container full of fries and fingers so that they wouldn't have to throw anything away.

I know we one time had a party and catering for the party was a giant garbage bag full of chicken and bread. We had so many chicken fingers we had a food fight in the parking lot of Plantation Trace.