Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is an American restaurant company and distributor of cheesecakes based in the United States.
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18 Facts About Cheesecake Factory
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Cheesecake Factory operates 220 full-service restaurants: 206 under The Cheesecake Factory brand, 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe brand, and one under the RockSugar Southeast Asian Kitchen brand.
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The Cheesecake Factory operates two bakery production facilities—in Calabasas, California, and Rocky Mount, North Carolina—and licenses two bakery-based menus for other food service operators under The Cheesecake Factory Bakery Cafe marque.
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Cheesecake Factory continued to supply cakes to several local restaurants through a kitchen in her basement.
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Cheesecake Factory continued to open new restaurants and by 1995 was ranked 11th in the United States.
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Cheesecake Factory has expanded into international markets by both licensing agreements for other companies to operate franchises, and by corporate ownership.
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In May 2014, The Cheesecake Factory announced that they would open the first Cheesecake Factory in East Asia.
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The first East Asian Cheesecake Factory opened in Disneytown in Pudong, Shanghai, China on June 16,2016.
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On December 1,2015, The Cheesecake Factory opened its eighth Middle East branch at the Verdun Shopping Center in Beirut, Lebanon.
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The opening was attended by many of The Cheesecake Factory management including managers from the US and Dubai.
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The Cheesecake Factory operates fourteen Grand Lux Cafe restaurants located in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
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On July 31,2019, the Cheesecake Factory announced it had reached an agreement to buy Phoenix-based Fox Restaurant Concepts for $308 million in cash at closing and another $45 million due over the course of the next four years.
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Cheesecake Factory dining menu includes steaks, chops, burgers, chicken, seafood, sandwiches, pasta, soups and salads in various cuisines.
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Cheesecake Factory has been criticized for featuring large servings of high-calorie and high-fat foods, and a corresponding lack of healthy menu options.
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In 2013, the Center for Science in the Public Interest gave a better understanding toward some of the food found at The Cheesecake Factory, including the "Crispy Chicken Costoletta" that has more calories than a 12-piece bucket of fried chicken from KFC and The Cheesecake Factory's "Bistro Shrimp Pasta" dish, which had more calories than any other entree from a national chain restaurant at 3,120 calories, with 89 grams of saturated fat.
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Cheesecake Factory is parodied in the Nickelodeon show iCarly as The Cheesecake Warehouse.
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