NFL draft prospect Drake Maye to serve fans at Raising Cane's food truck in Detroit
Editor's note: This story is updated to reflect the 4:30 p.m. start time of the event.
Drake Maye, a top 2024 NFL Draft prospect, is expected to be in downtown Detroit on Tuesday afternoon serving fans Raising Cane's chicken fingers.
A Raising Cane's food truck will be parked at 401 Gratiot Ave. in Detroit at the Park Rite parking lot.
Maye, a quarterback out of the University of North Carolina, will take a shift at the Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers food truck serving fans beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. On the food truck menu: chicken fingers, Texas toast, fries and Cane's sauce.
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Maye is an expected first-round draft pick on Thursday amid the 2024 NFL Draft action at Campus Martius.
Raising Cane's, founded in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is known for its chicken finger meals served with Cane's sauce. The nationwide chain was founded by Todd Graves and Craig Silvery and is named after Graves' yellow labrador retriever. In Michigan, a Raising Cane's restaurant is located in East Lansing.
A Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is planning other Michigan locations. In an email to the Free Press, a company representative said construction will begin later this month on a Canton location with plans to open in the fall or early winter. Other locations are planned for Ann Arbor, Grandville, and Sterling Heights, the company said.
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