• I tried chicken tenders from 14 different fast-food chains. • Chick-fil-A and KFC's chicken tenders were similar in their breaded texture. • Raising Cane's impressed me with its crispy yet juicy tenders and delicious signature sauce.

The fast-food chicken wars have entered a new battleground — this time, it's all about the tender.

McDonald's launched its new McCrispy Strips in May, marking the first time chicken strips have been on the menu since the pandemic.

Then, just this week, Wendy's launched its own Wendy's Tendys and a lineup of six new sauces made for dunking.

"Consumers told us what they wanted in a chicken tender, and we listened — taste-tested, fine-tuned, and delivered," Lindsay Radkoski, Wendy's US chief marketing officer, told Business Insider.

I compared chicken

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